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Exploiting Equilibrium Properties for Assembly of Core/Shell-Like Compound Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 9, 2010
Typical synthesis of core/shell nanostructures involves a rigorous two-step protocol. It is common to synthesize the semiconducting core first,...

Placement of Catalyst in Electrospun Silica Nanofibers for the Alkaline Hydrolysis of Biomass

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 11, 2010
The use of electrospinning to generate one dimensional materials has garnered significant interest lately due to its inexpensive nature and the...

Performance Enhancement of Hybrid Solar Cells through Chemical Vapor Annealing

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 9, 2010
Semiconductor nanostructure-based solar cells, such as dye-sensitized solar cells, all-inorganic nanostructure solar cells, and hybrid inorganic...

Oriented Single-Crystalline Rutile TiO2 Nanorods On Transparent Conducting Substrates for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 9, 2010
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) made from oriented, one-dimensional (1D) semiconductor nanostructures such as nanorods, nanowires, and nanotubes...

Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 and TiO2-xCxNy Thin Films From Polymer Assisted Deposition

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 9, 2010
Since the 1972 discovery of Fujishima and Honda detecting the occurrence of water splitting on TiO2 electrodes, titanium dioxide's use as a...

Photoelectrochemical Properties of Birnessite-Type MnO2 Thin Films for Solar Water Splitting

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 11, 2010
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting to produce clean hydrogen fuel is an attractive method for harvesting intermittent solar energy and...

Solution-Grown CuInSe2 Nanowires for Low-Cost Photovoltaics

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 9, 2010
A semiconductor media that could be printed under ambient conditions by a roll-to-roll process on plastic substrates to fabricate photovoltaic...

Titania Nanotube Supported Gold Photoanodes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 8, 2009
Photoelectrochemical cells (PEC) combine a photovoltaic device for light harvesting and an electrolyzer for water splitting into a single system...

Synthesis and Characterization of New Bimetallic Spinel Oxy-Nitride Photocatalysts

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 8, 2009
Photocatalysis is the acceleration of a slow reaction by a photon-assisted process with titanium dioxide (TiO2) being the material of choice for most...

Solar Hydrogen Production Using Ferrite-Based Water Splitting Cycles On Al2O3 Substrates

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 8, 2009
We are reporting the results of an alternative ferrite cycle in which the ferrite (CoFe2O4) is deposited on a porous Al2O3 support via atomic layer...

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