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Water-induced correlation between single ions imaged at the solid-liquid interface

Peter Spijker, Kislon Voitchovsky, Maria Ricci

When immersed into water, most solids develop a surface charge, which is neutralized by an accumulation of dissolved counterions at the interface. Although the density distribution of counterions perpendicular to the interface obeys well-established theori ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Dispersion Characteristics and Aggregation in Titanate Nanowire Colloids

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Endre Horvath, Plinio Maroni

Titanate nanowires (TiONWs) are synthesized through the hydrothermal method and characterized in acidic aqueous dispersions by using electrophoresis, dynamic light scattering, and atomic force microscopy. The TiONWs have a rodlike shape with an average len ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2014

Hematite photoelectrodes for water splitting: evaluation of the role of film thickness by impedance spectroscopy

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Florian Le Formal

The electrochemical behavior of alpha-Fe2O3 photoelectrodes prepared by spray pyrolysis with different thicknesses was examined under dark and illumination conditions. The main charge transport phenomena occurring in the PEC cell photoelectrodes were chara ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Colloidal Stability of Self-Assembled Mono layer-Coated Gold Nanoparticles: The Effects of Surface Compositional and Structural Heterogeneity

Francesco Stellacci, Randy Patrick Carney

Surface heterogeneity plays an important role in controlling colloidal phenomena. This study investigated the self-aggregation and bacterial adsorption of self-assembled monolayer coated gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with different surface compositional and s ...

American Chemical Society2013

Stern Layer Formation Induced by Hydrophobic Interactions: A Molecular Level Study

Sylvie Roke, Yixing Chen, Rüdiger Scheu

The molecular ionic surface structure and charge of the electric double layer around a nanodroplet and its structural change induced by hydrophobic effects are measured using vibrational coherent surface scattering spectroscopy, second harmonic scattering, ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Arrested demixing opens route to bigels

Giuseppe Foffi, Nicolas Dorsaz, Francesco Varrato, Maxim Belushkin

Understanding and, ultimately, controlling the properties of amorphous materials is one of the key goals of material science. Among the different amorphous structures, a very important role is played by colloidal gels. It has been only recently understood ...

National Academy of Sciences2012

Low-Temperature Preparation of Tailored Carbon Nanostructures in Water

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Holger Frauenrath, Vincent Laporte, Davide Demurtas, Raffaele Mezzenga, Bernt Ketterer, Tobias Hoheisel, Martin Fritzsche

The development of low-temperature carbonization procedures promises to provide novel nanostructured carbon materials that are of high current interest in materials science and technology. Here, we report a "wet-chemical" carbonization method that utilizes ...

American Chemical Society2012

Long-term colloidal stability of 10 carbon nanotube types in the absence/presence of humic acid and calcium

Arnaud Magrez, Rita Smajda

The colloidal stabilities of ten carbon nanotubes (CNTs) having varying physico-chemical properties were compared in long-term experiments. The presence of Suwannee River Humic Acid (SRHA) increased the fraction of CNTs in the supernatants (4-88% for the v ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2012