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Reliable Langmuir Blodgett colloidal masks for large area nanostructure realization

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Madasamy Thangamuthu

The fabrication of highly ordered nanostructures over large areas is key for many technologies and colloidal lithography using the Langmuir Blodgett technique appears a simple and straightforward way of reaching that goal. While this technique has been wid ...

2020

Colloidal Nanocrystals as Heterogeneous Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Conversions

Raffaella Buonsanti, Jianfeng Huang

In the past decade, atomically engineered nanomaterials with different sizes and exposed facets have been proven to be excellent model systems to advance catalytic studies. Colloidal chemistry is one of the most powerful wet-chemistry techniques to tailor- ...

2019

Molecular Level Interfacial Studies of Nanoemulsions: Surface Structure, Specific Ion Effects and Stability

Evangelia Zdrali

This thesis is a study on the molecular structure of the interface of nanometer-sized oil droplets dispersed in water, a system known as oil-in-water nanoemulsion. The motivation for this research is the large significance of the interfacial nanostructures ...

EPFL2019

Water: its influence on the formation and crystallization of amorphous calcium carbonate

Huachuan Du

Nature produces CaCO3-based materials that display fascinating mechanical properties. These properties are a result of the exquisite control over the formation of CaCO3 crystals that nature possesses. Such a high level of control is likely achieved, at lea ...

EPFL2019

Nanocrystalline ZnO Obtained by the Thermal Decomposition of [Zn(H2O)(O2C5H7)(2)] in 1-Butanol: Synthesis and Testing as a Sensing Material

Thomas Maeder

The influence of conditions of heat treatment of a solution [Zn(H2O)(O2C5H7)(2)] in 1-butanol (temperature 125-185 degrees C, treatment times 2, 4, and 6 h) on dispersion and microstructure of the formed nanocrystalline and poorly aggregated zinc oxide, pr ...

MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER2018

Fabrication of Hexagonal-Prismatic Granular Hydrogel Sheets

Esther Amstad, Huachuan Du, Mathias Steinacher, Alice Cont

Natural soft materials are often composed of proteins that self-assemble into well-defined structures and display mechanical properties that cannot be matched by manmade materials. These materials are frequently mimicked with hydrogels whose mechanical pro ...

2018

Peptide-based coatings for flexible implantable neural interfaces

Silvestro Micera

In the last decade, the use of flexible biosensors for neuroprosthetic and translational applications has widely increased. Among them, the polyimide (PI)-based thin-film electrodes got a large popularity. However, the usability of these devices is still h ...

Nature Research2018

Thermal stability of nanometric TiC-carbon composites: effects of carbon allotropes and Zr milling impurities

Paul Bowen

In the ISOL (Isotope Separator OnLine) method a target at high temperatures (up to 2300 degrees C), is bombarded with high energy protons in order to produce isotopes through nuclear reactions which are simultaneously extracted from the target, ionized and ...

2018

Controlled deposition of titanium oxide overcoats by non-hydrolytic sol gel for improved catalyst selectivity and stability

Jeremy Luterbacher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Yuan-Peng Du

Advances in the synthetic control of surface nanostructures could improve the activity, selectivity and stability of heterogeneous catalysts. Here, we present a technique for the controlled deposition of TiO2 overcoats based on non-hydrolytic sol-gel chemi ...

Elsevier2018

Functionalization of iron oxide nanoparticles with methacrylate-based monomers for preparation of nanocomposites

Heinrich Hofmann

Nanocomposites with a high and uniform loading of magnetic nanoparticles are very desirable for various applications. In this study, a simple and scalable route for preparing nanocomposites with a high and uniform loading of magnetic nanoparticles is prese ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2018

Cellulose Nanocrystals with Tethered Polymer Chains: Chemically Patchy versus Uniform Decoration

Harm-Anton Klok, Alke Fink

The site-specific surface modification of colloidal substrates, yielding "patchy" nanoparticles, is a rapidly expanding area of research as a result of the new complex structural hierarchies that are becoming accessible to chemists and materials scientists ...

2017

Synthesis and Sintering of ZnO Nanopowders

Paul Bowen, Zhe Zhao, Michael Stuer

Nanopowders are continuously under investigation as they open new perspectives in numerous fields. There are two main challenges to stimulating their development: sufficient low-cost, high throughput synthesis methods which lead to a production with well-d ...

Mdpi Ag2017