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Recent advances in Third Generation Biosensors based on Au and Pt Nanostructured Electrodes

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A Material Approach to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells : Atomic Layer Deposition and Inverse Opal Host-Guest Architectures

With growing concerns on future energy supplies, solar energy appears as an energy source whose potential remains to be tapped at a large scale. In the last two decades, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) have been considered as a competitive means to conve ...

EPFL2014

Direct growth of nanotubes and graphene nanoflowers on electrochemical platinum electrodes

Giovanni De Micheli, László Forró, Sandro Carrara, Arnaud Magrez, Federico Matteini, Irene Taurino

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoflowers were grown by a catalytic chemical vapor deposition process on metal surfaces. Electrodeposition was used as a versatile technique to obtain three different iron catalyst coatings on platinum microelec ...

2013

Nucleation and Island Growth of Alkanethiolate Ligand Domains on Gold Nanoparticles

Francesco Stellacci, Yue Wang

The metal oxide cluster alpha-AIW(11)O(39)(9-) (1), readily imaged by cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM), is used as a diagnostic protecting anion to investigate the self-assembly of alkanethiolate monolayers on electrostatically stabili ...

American Chemical Society2012

Electrochemical promotion of CO combustion over non-percolated Pt particles supported on YSZ using a novel bipolar configuration

Christos Comninellis, Wolfgang Harbich, György Foti, Chun Xia, Michael Hugentobler

The electrochemical promotion of CO combustion over nano-dispersed Platinum particles supported on yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) is investigated at 300 degrees C under high vacuum conditions. By polarizing the nanoparticles, we were able to enhance the ...

Elsevier2011

Self-Assembled Liquid-Gated Zinc Oxide Nanowire Transistors : Fabrication and Sensing Operation

Vivek Pachauri

This thesis aims at the site-specific realization of self-assembled field-effect transistors (FETs) based on semiconducting Zinc oxide NWs and their application towards chemical and bio-sensing in liquid medium. At first, a solution based growth method for ...

EPFL2011

New Analytical Methods for Size Fractionated, Quantitative, and Element Specific Analysis of Metallic Engineered Nanoparticles in Aerosols and Dispersions

Harald Hagendorfer

The application of engineered nanoparticles (ENP) increased almost exponentially during the last decade. Next to carbon based ENP, metal based ENP are the next most commonly employed. Utilization of such particles for medical applications, remediation of t ...

EPFL2011