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Hydrothermal synthesis

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Scalable Room-Temperature Synthesis of a Hydrogen-Sieving Zeolitic Membrane on a Polymeric Support

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Jian Hao, Xuekui Duan

Thescalable synthesis of high-temperature H-2-sieving membranesfor energy-efficient carbon capture can potentiallyenable the implementation of precombustion carbon capture at a rapidpace. ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Direct Visualization of Atomic-Scale Heterogeneous Structure Dynamics in MnO2 Nanowires

Kangning Zhao

Manganese oxides are attracting great interest owing to their rich polymorphism and multiple valent states, which give rise to a wide range of applications in catalysis, capacitors, ion batteries, and so forth. Most of their functionalities are connected t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Electrophoretic Crystallization of Ultrathin High-performance Metal-organic Framework Membranes

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Guangwei He, Deepu Joseph Babu

We report the synthesis of thin, highly intergrown, polycrystalline metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes on a wide range of unmodified porous and non-porous supports (polymer, ceramic, metal, carbon, and graphene). We developed a novel crystallization t ...

JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS2018

Atomically Altered Hematite for Highly Efficient Perovskite Tandem Water-Splitting Devices

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Chenyi Yi

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells are attractive for storing solar energy in chemical bonds through cleaving of water into oxygen and hydrogen. Although hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) is a promising photoanode material owing to its chemical stability, suitable band ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2017

Short magmatic residence times of quartz phenocrysts in Patagonian rhyolites associated with Gondwana breakup

Anders Meibom, Stéphane Laurent Escrig, Lukas Baumgartner, Susanne Seitz

A key parameter in the study of magma evolution is the time scale on which magmatic processes occur. Using nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS), SIMS, and cathodoluminescence (CL) analyses, we have measured titanium (Ti) diffusion profiles ...

Geological Society of America2016

Influence of TiO2 phase composition on the photocatalytic activity of TiO2/MWCNT composites prepared by combined sol-gel/hydrothermal method

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Endre Horvath

Titanium dioxide/multiwall carbon nanotube (TiO2/MWCNT) composites were prepared by sol-gel method with hydrolysis of titanium alkoxide precursor followed by crystallization via hydrothermal treatment at different acid concentrations. Transmission electron ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Kinetic model for calcium sulfate alpha-hemihydrate produced hydrothermally from gypsum formed by flue gas desulfurization

Xuerun Li

Modeling of the kinetics of the synthesis process for calcium sulfate alpha-hemihydrate from gypsum formed by flue gas desulfurization (FGD) is important to produce high-performance products with minimal costs and production cycles under hydrothermal condi ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Crystallization of polylactide during impregnation with liquid CO2

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, John Christopher Plummer

The evolution of the morphology and degree of crystallinity was investigated postmortem in initially amorphous specimens of a commercial poly(dl-lactide) with a relatively low d-lactide content, after different immersion times in liquid CO2 at 10 A degrees ...

Springer Verlag2015

Rutile TiO2-based perovskite solar cells

Michael Graetzel

A perovskite solar cell based on rutile TiO2 film was prepared and its photovoltaic performance was compared to an anatase TiO2-based perovskite solar cell. Rutile TiO2 nanoparticles with aspect ratio of 0.2 (20 nm wide and 100 nm long) were prepared by hy ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Synthesis, crystal growth and physical properties of the frustrated spin ladder material BiCu2PO6

Shuang Wang

In recent years quantum antiferromagnets with an intrinsically disordered (“spin liquid”) ground state and an energy gap in the spin excitation spectrum have received a great deal of attention. In search for new experimental realizations of spin-ladder and ...

EPFL2013

Mechanism of hydrothermal growth of ferroelectric PZT nanowires

Nava Setter, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Jin Wang, Alexandre Durussel

The formation mechanism of hydrothermally grown monocrystalline ferroelectric PZT nanowires is investigated. It is shown that the growth proceeds via a two-step process. Particles of the centrosymmetric PX-phase grow initially, having a fibrous morphology ...

2012

Voltage enhancement in dye-sensitized solar cell using (001)-oriented anatase TiO2 nanosheets

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Paul Liska, Ladislav Kavan, Elham Ghadiri

A nanocrystalline TiO2 (anatase) nanosheet ex- posing mainly the (001) crystal faces was tested as photo- anode material in dye-sensitized solar cells. The nanosheets were prepared by hydrothermal growth in HF medium. Good-quality thin films were deposited ...

Springer2012

Early hydration of cementitious systems

Underground job sites such as tunnels and mines rely on the quality of recently sprayed concrete to secure freshly excavated zones. Rapid setting and early high strength development are required for safety as well as for the rapid progression of the constr ...

EPFL2009

Mechanical spectroscopy of interface stress relaxation in magnesium matrix composites

Magnesium matrix composites made of pure (99.98%) magnesium reinforced with long carbon (Mg/C) and stainless steel (Mg/steel) fibers were processed by low pressure infiltration method. Mg/C composites were then oriented from the crystallographic point of v ...

EPFL2009

Low temperature hydrothermal routes to various PZT stoichiometries

Scott Harada

The production of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) with a variation in Zr and Ti ratios using a hydrothermal method has been attempted. We show that when reactions are conducted at 160 degrees C, for 4 h, the phase of PZT produced is independent of the initia ...

Springer Verlag2008

Synthesis, characterisation and catalytic properties of vanadium substituted mesoporous aluminophosphates

Albert Renken, Benoît Louis

Vanadium substituted mesoporous AlPO have been synthesized using structure-directing surfactant under hydrothermal synthesis conditions. The presence of V in the framework of AlPO has been established by ESR, XPS, UV-vis DRS and ICP-AES measurements. This ...

2005