His research is focused on the understanding of the fundamentals of the interactions between environmentally harmful compounds (NOx, COx, and SOx) and metal and metal
oxide nanostructures.
The new device relies on a metallic blend of nickel and nickel
oxide nanostructures, which help split water into oxygen and hydrogen fuel.
There, she studied how strain state and interface structure in
oxide nanostructured materials grown by a solution route changed the material's superconductivity, magnetism and other properties.
Not exact matches
Previously, Darling and fellow Argonne chemist Jeff Elam had developed a technique called sequential infiltration synthesis, or SIS, which can be used to infuse hard metal
oxide atoms within complicated
nanostructures.
To see the way the lithium - ions reacted with the nickel
oxide, the scientists used a suite of custom - written software to digitally reconstruct the three - dimensional
nanostructures with single - nanometer resolution.
The shape of the crystals, together with their increased reactivity, enables the consolidation of homogeneous
nanostructured mixed
oxides as intermediates towards very dense nuclear fuels for advanced reactors.
This approach allowed them to lithographically define
oxide templates and fill them via epitaxy, in the end making nanowires, cross junctions,
nanostructures containing constrictions and 3 - D stacked nanowires using the already established scaled processes of Si technology.
Halas said one way to lower manufacturing costs would be to incorporate high - efficiency light - gathering plasmonic
nanostructures with low - cost semiconductors like metal
oxides.
A novel
nanostructured material based on tantalum
oxide could make possible non-volatile crossbar array memories that store up to 162 gigabits in 3 - D memory stacks.
PSolution processing and properties of functional
oxide thin films and
nanostructures - III (FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS)
His interests are related to catalysis in zeolites as well as on
nanostructured oxides and sulfides, focusing on bifunctional and concerted catalysis, as well as understanding the influence of the steric and chemical environment on the properties of active centers in a catalytic site.
Nanostructured, enhanced with silicon
oxide, covered with a nanometer - thin layer of aluminum
oxide and cobalt
oxide — these treatments optimize the electrochemical properties of the material, but are nonetheless simple to apply.