Search
Skip to Search Results- 16Chemistry
- 15Material Science
- 15Nanoscience
- 13Nanostructures
- 5Glancing angle deposition
- 3Nanotechnology
- 15Laishram, Devika
- 1Adeyenuwo, Adegboyega P.
- 1Bezuidenhout, Louis Wentzel
- 1Guo, Y.
- 1Jacob, Z.
- 1Krause, Kathleen
- 15ERA General Collection
- 15ERA General Collection/Research Materials (ERA General)
- 13Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 13Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
- 1Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative
- 1Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative/Journal Articles & Research Abstracts (Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative)
- 2Brett, Michael (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Brett, Michael J. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Brett, Michael J (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Buriak, Jillian (Chemistry)
- 1Chen, Jie (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Dew, Steve K. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
-
Heterostructured HfO2/TiO2 spherical nanoparticles for visible photocatalytic water remediation
Download2022-09-26
Photocatalytic activity of low band gap hydrogenated HfO2 doped TiO2 (H-HfO2/TiO2), HfO2 doped TiO2 (HfO2/TiO2) and TiO2 (pristine) were investigated by photocatalytic degradation of five different industrial dyes. The current study envisages the effect of doping hydrogen and HfO2 up on TiO2 for...
-
Molecular separations using nanostructured porous thin films fabricated by glancing angle deposition
DownloadSpring 2011
Biomolecular separation techniques are an enabling technology that indirectly influence many aspects of our lives. Advances have led to faster analyses, reduced costs, higher specificity, and new analytical techniques, impacting areas such as health care, environmental monitoring, polymer...
-
2022-09-26
The development of efficient energy conversion devices offers new opportunities to address world energy demands; however, the advancement in this field is limited by the lack of suitable materials to drive effective conversion. In this perspective, multifunctional nanomaterials with their unique...
-
Fall 2009
Extending electronic devices beyond the limitations of current micro-electronics manufacturing will require detailed knowledge of how to make contacts to semiconductor surfaces. In this work, we investigated several methods by which such connections to silicon surfaces could be achieved. Scanning...
-
Fall 2016
The lead sulfide colloidal quantum dots (PbS CQD) solar cell has attracted wide attention in recent years for its facile fabrication process and low cost. However, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of PbS CQD cell is still low due to the trade-off between light absorption and carrier...
-
Spring 2013
Organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs)are promising devices for inexpensive power generation from sunlight. Organic semiconductors, the basic materials for OPVs, can be fabricated using a broad range of fabrication technologies from vapor deposition to solution processing. Upon light absorption,...
-
Nickel and cobalt transfigured natural clay: a green catalyst for low-temperature catalytic soot oxidation
Download2022-09-26
Soot particulates in engine exhausts pose a severe threat to the environment and human health – causing cancer, affecting the heart and lungs and drives metal processes. This study proposes a practical, real-world application of transition metal modified natural clay as an environmentally benign,...
-
Nitrogen-Enriched Carbon Nanobubbles and Nanospheres for Applications in Energy Harvesting, Storage, and CO2 Sequestration
Download2022-09-26
Multifunctional carbon nanomaterials have attracted remarkable consideration for use in various energy conversion and storage devices because of their ultrahigh specific surface area, unique morphology, and excellent electrochemical properties. Herein, we report the synthesis of highly uniform...
-
Spring 2012
Fabrication of nanofeatures with precisely defined size and ordering is essential for a broad range of technologically important applications, including integrated circuit production. Self-organizing block copolymers are capable of patterning substrates with nanoscale precision. This thesis...
-
Recent advances in ultra-low temperature (sub-zero to 100 C) synthesis, mechanism and applications of titania (TiO2) nanoparticles
Download2022-09-25
The development of titania (TiO2) nanomaterials for next-generation photonic, optoelectronic, and catalytic applications necessitates a facile and cost-effective synthetic methodology for precisely tuning the composition, phase, and morphology at nanometer scales. In this review, an attempt has...