With the purpose of studying the effect of stabilizing film morphology on polymer photovoltaic cell performance, the morphology and characteristics of bulk heterojunction devices fabricated using binary blends of an azid...
We developed a facile dielectric surface modification using "grafting to" polymer brushes for high-performance and stable TES-ADT FETs. Polymer brushes were grafted onto oxide substrates by spin-coating and thermal annea...
Novel nucleophilic ligands were synthesized from oleic acid conjugated with 2-mercaptoimidazole via a UV-initiated thiol-ene reaction, and by a condensation of trans-9,10-epoxystcaric acid with 4(5)-imidazoledithiocarbox...
Adenine molecularly imprinted material was obtained. Well-defined silica gel particles of submicrometer size were coated with ultrathin polymeric layers, first with a polycationic poly(allylamine hydrochloride) layer tha...
A novel PdAu bimetallic catalyst with a PdAu@Au core-shell nanostructure supported on carbon was facilely synthesized by a simultaneous reduction method without using any stabilizer. The structure was characterized by cy...
Aerogels belong to the large class of porous solids. They are characterized by a network of a mechanically stable solid, most likely inorganic in nature comprising a large gas volume in comparison to the volume of the so...
Nanocomposites consisting of gelatin and hydroxyapatite as well as of gelatin and mixtures of hydroxyapatite and different amounts of octacalcium phosphate were prepared as bulk-materials. The composites were precipitate...
Aluminum oxide encapsulated high-permittivity (epsilon) BaTiO3 and ZrO2 core-shell nanoparticles having variable Al2O3 shell thicknesses were prepared via a layer-by-layer methylaluminoxane coating process. Subsequent ch...
Many de nova designed amphiphilic peptides capable of self-assembly and further structural templating into hierarchical organizations such as nanofibers and gels carry more than 10 amino acid residues. A curious question...
The parent cage [Ti16O16(OEt)(32)] readily undergoes ligand exchange with a range of primary alcohols to yield species of the type [Ti16O16(OEy)(32-x)(OR')(x)], with R' = Me, n-Pr, and n-Bu with x of up to 8. Attempted l...
Single walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) films are candidates for use as transparent electrodes, especially where low-cost, flexible materials are desired. Chemical doping is a critical step in fabricating conductive films ...
Oxygen storage/release (OSC) capacity is an important feature common to all three-way catalysts to combat harmful exhaust emissions. To understand the mechanism of improved OSC for doped CeO2, we undertook the structural...
The effect of the rate of alumina release during the reaction of a one-part (just-add-water) geopolymer mix on growing geopolymer gels is investigated by coupling time-resolved and spatially resolved infrared spectroscop...
Sputter deposition of indium (In) in ionic liquids (ILs) could produce stable In metal nanoparticles whose surface was covered by an amorphous In2O3 layer to form In/In2O3 core/shell particles. The size of the In core wa...
The strategy of utilizing mechanochemical synthesis to obtain metal organic frameworks (MOFs) with high surface areas is demonstrated for two model systems. The compounds HKUST-1 (Cu-3( BTC)(2), BTC = 1,3,5-benzenetricar...