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Amorphous carbon

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Nanoscale thermal control of a single living cell enabled by diamond heater-thermometer

Aleksandra Radenovic, Evgenii Glushkov

We report a new approach to controllable thermal stimulation of a single living cell and its compartments. The technique is based on the use of a single polycrystalline diamond particle containing silicon-vacancy (SiV) color centers. Due to the presence of ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Understanding the role of surface oxygen-containing functional groups on carbon-supported cobalt catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction

Andreas Züttel, Kangning Zhao, Liping Zhong, Thi Ha My Pham, Youngdon Ko, Manhui Wei

Supported Co-based catalysts exhibit promising catalytic activities in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) during alkaline water electrolysis. Surface functionalization of the support modulates the dispersion of the catalysts and their interaction with the ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Flowing Gas Experiments Reveal Mechanistic Details of Interfacial Reactions on a Molecular Level at Knudsen Flow Conditions

Christian Ludwig, Michel Rossi, Riccardo Iannarelli

Knudsen flow experiments and its interpretation in terms of adsorption/desorption kinetics as well as quantitative uptake on substrates of interest is presented together with the description of critical design parameters of the Knudsen Flow Reactor (KFR). ...

2022

Rh-catalyzed C-H Bond Heteroarylation with Hypervalent Iodine Reagents and Pd-Catalyzed Tethered Functionalizations of Carbon-Carbon Multiple Bonds

Ashis Kumar Das

Transition metal-catalyzed C-H activation is a powerful tool for the synthesis of organic building blocks, materials, and natural products. Over the last decade, directing-group-assisted metal-catalyzed C-H functionalization has attracted increasing intere ...

EPFL2022

From pulsed-DCMS and HiPIMS to microwave plasma-assisted sputtering: Their influence on the properties of diamond-like carbon films

Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Johann Michler, Caroline Hain

The fabrication of high-hardness non-hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (DLC) via standard magnetron sputtering (MS) is often hindered by the low sputtering yields and ionisation rates of carbon, therefore investigations into pulsed alternatives of MS, else ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Quantum vibronic effects on the electronic properties of solid and molecular carbon

Michele Ceriotti

We study the effect of quantum vibronic coupling on the electronic properties of carbon allotropes, including molecules and solids, by combining path integral first principles molecular dynamics (FPMD) with a colored noise thermostat. In addition to avoidi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Additive Manufacturing of Bulk Metallic Glasses-Process, Challenges and Properties: A Review

Roland Logé, Jamasp Jhabvala, Navid Sohrabi

Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMG) are metallic alloys that have the ability to solidify in an amorphous state. BMGs show enhanced properties, for instance, high hardness, strength, and excellent corrosion and wear resistance. BMGs produced by conventional method ...

MDPI2021

Carbon Nanomaterials from Oligoyne Surfactants

Enzo Jean Raymond Bomal

Carbonaceous nanocoatings such as diamond-like amorphous carbon or graphene layers exhibit remarkable properties in multiple fields, ranging from corrosion protection to electronics and lubrication. However, they are typically deposited from the vapor phas ...

EPFL2020

Nanosecond pulsed laser-processing of CVD diamond

Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Marco Cantoni, Sébastien Equis

This work considers the resulting material structural effects of laser-processing chemical vapor deposited (CVD) diamond. The utilized 532 nm wavelength laser had a pulse duration of 40 ns together with a spot diameter of ca. 40 mu m. The effect of cutting ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Palladium-Catalyzed Multicomponent Synthesis of Fully Substituted Alkylidene Furanones

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Ruben Omar Torres Ochoa

In the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd(OAc)(2) and XantPhos, the three-component reaction of ynones, imines, and aryl iodides affords fully substituted alkylidene-furan-3(2H)-ones via a sequence of the Mannich reaction followed by chemo- and regiosele ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Triplet grain growth in a-texture polycrystalline ZnO thin films

Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Arthur Brian Aebersold

A growth of grain triplets is identified in vapor deposited, a-texture polycrystalline zinc oxide thin films, using a combination of transmission electron microscopy-based automated crystal orientation mapping and high-resolution imaging. Each triplet cons ...

2020

Comparison of high density and nitrogen seeded detachment using SOLPS-ITER simulations of the tokamak a configuration variable

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing, Hugo De Oliveira, Lorenzo Martinelli

First of a kind SOLPS-ITER simulations on tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) that include nitrogen have been performed to model recent nitrogen seeded detachment experiments. Based on spectroscopic measurements, a nitrogen recycling coefficient R-p(N) ...

2020

Energetics and cathode voltages of LiMPO4 olivines (M = Fe, Mn) from extended Hubbard functionals

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni

Transition-metal compounds pose serious challenges to first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT), due to the inability of most approximate exchange-correlation functionals to capture the localization of valence electrons on thei ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Densely Packed, Ultra Small SnO Nanoparticles for Enhanced Activity and Selectivity in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

Xile Hu, Jeremy Luterbacher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Jun Gu

Controlling the selectivity in electrochemical CO2 reduction is an unsolved challenge. While tin (Sn) has emerged as a promising non‐precious catalyst for CO2 electroreduction, most Sn‐based catalysts produce formate as the major product, which is less des ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2018

Multimaterial Nanoporous Membranes Shaped through High Aspect-Ratio Sacrificial Silicon Nanostructures

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, Niccolo Piacentini, Stefano Silvio Giovanni Varricchio

We present an innovative fabrication method for solid-state nanoporous membranes based on the casting of sacrificial silicon nanostructures. The process allows the individual definition of geometry and placement of each nanopore through e-beam lithography ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Order/Disorder Dynamics in a Dodecanethiol-Capped Gold Nanoparticles Supracrystal by Small-Angle Ultrafast Electron Diffraction

Francesco Stellacci, Fabrizio Carbone, Giulia Fulvia Mancini, Javier Reguera Gomez, Tatiana Latychevskaia, Francesco Pennacchio

The design and the characterization of functionalized gold nanoparticles supracrystals require atomically resolved information on both the metallic core and the external organic ligand shell. At present, there is no known approach to characterize simultane ...

American Chemical Society2016

Cyclic Hypervalent Iodine Reagents for Atom-Transfer Reactions: Beyond Trifluoromethylation

Jérôme Waser, Yifan Li, Durga Prasada Rao Hari, Maria Victoria Vita

Hypervalent iodine compounds are privileged reagents in organic synthesis because of their exceptional reactivity. Among these compounds, cyclic derivatives stand apart because of their enhanced stability. They have been widely used as oxidants, but their ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Sintering and coking resistant core–shell microporous silica–nickel nanoparticles for CO methanation: Towards advanced catalysts production

Christian Ludwig, Andrea Testino

Modern engineered materials have to be developed to address specific problems associated to chemical processes that directly affect our society. Catalysts are key materials used for large scale production of at least 90% of the everyday goods. Many energy ...

Elsevier2016

Precision glass molding of high-resolution diffractive optical elements

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Karin Prater

The demand of high resolution diffractive optical elements (DOE) is growing. Smaller critical dimensions allow higher deflection angles and can fulfill more demanding requirements, which can only be met by using electron-beam lithography. Replication techn ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Enantioselective Rhodium-catalyzed C-C Bond Activation of Cyclobutanones

Nicolai Cramer, Laetitia Marie Mélanie Souillart

The activation of carbon-carbon bonds has attracted much attention in the past decade. Despite important progress, the development of asymmetric reactions lags behind. For the first time, asymmetric rhodium(I)-catalyzed direct oxidative additions into enan ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2015