Dr. Koziej is honored for her article «Puzzling Mechanism behind a Simple Synthesis of Cobalt and
Cobalt Oxide Nanoparticles: In Situ Synchrotron X-ray Absorption and Diffraction Studies», published in Chemistry of Materials.
The work, supported by the Welch Foundation, will lead to future research, he said, including the question of why
cobalt oxide nanoparticles have such a short lifespan, and questions involving chemical and electronic properties of the material.
Their research, published online Sunday in Nature Nanotechnology, involved the use of
cobalt oxide nanoparticles to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Other issues remain to be resolved, as well, including reducing costs and extending the lifespan of
cobalt oxide nanoparticles, which the researchers found became deactivated after about an hour of reaction.
Researchers have used
cobalt oxide nanoparticles to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Frei, Zhang and de Respinis have reported their findings in the journal Nature Chemistry in a paper titled «Time - resolved observations of water oxidation intermediates on
a cobalt oxide nanoparticle catalyst.»
Not exact matches
For cathode electrodes, they embedded NMC — lithium nickel manganese
cobalt oxide — in the nanotubes, causing the
nanoparticles to become very conductive.