Publications associées à Material properties of diamond

Dual-Facet Mechanism in Copper Nanocubes for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction into Ethylene

Raffaella Buonsanti, Jianfeng Huang, Giulia Mangione

The product selectivity in the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide depends on the structure of the copper electrode. Cube-shaped copper catalysts, enclosed by {100} terraces, {110} edges, and {111} corners, exhibit a size-dependent enhanced only se ...

2019

Nanocrystalline Boron-Doped Diamond as a Corrosion-Resistant Anode for Water Oxidation via Si Photoelectrodes

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Ladislav Kavan, Florian Le Formal, Petr Ashcheulov

Due to its high sensitivity to corrosion, the use of Si in direct photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting systems that convert solar energy into chemical fuels has been greatly limited. Therefore, the development of low-cost materials resistant to corro ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Enhancement of optical quality factor by thermal annealing of single crystal diamond micro-resonators

Niels Quack, Teodoro Graziosi, Sichen Mi, Marcell Kristof Kiss

We report on the increase in optical quality factor of a suspended single crystal diamond micro-disk resonator by thermal annealing. The resonators are fabricated by Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) to obtain circular pillars in bulk single crystal diamond ...

IEEE2018

Cleaning strategy for carbon-based electrodes: Long-term propofol monitoring in human serum

Giovanni De Micheli, Giovanni Boero, Francesca Stradolini, Irene Taurino, Tugba Kilic

In this work, we present a novel electrochemical cleaning procedure for long-term electrochemical monitoring of propofol by using boron-doped diamond (BDD) and pencil graphite electrode (PGE). Propofol is an anesthetic that is widely used for long-lasting ...

2018

All-diamond functional surface micro-electrode arrays for brain-slice neural analysis

Ladislav Kavan, Michele Giugliano

Diamond-based microelectrode arrays were fabricated by using nanocrystalline diamond as an insulating layer and conductive boron-doped in order to used them for analysis of brain cortical slices. MEA surface is solely composed of diamond, exposed to the ce ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2017

Tribocorrosion and electrochemical behaviour of nanocrystalline diamond coated Ti based alloys for orthopaedic application

Stefano Mischler, Shoufan Cao

Metallic implants such as hip and knee often fail due to the combined action of wear and corrosion. Nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) coatings on metallic implants can be a potential candidate to overcome this issue. In this work, we investigated the tribocorr ...

Elsevier2017

The local strength of individual alumina particles

Andreas Mortensen, Goran Zagar, Václav Pejchal, Marta Fornabaio

We implement the C-shaped sample test method and micro-cantilever beam testing to measure the local strength of microscopic, low-aspect-ratio ceramic particles, namely high purity vapor grown a-alumina Sumicorundum (R) particles 15-30 mu m in diameter, kno ...

2017

Probing the micromechanical strength of oxide ceramic composite reinforcements

Václav Pejchal

This work shows how one can probe the micromechanical strength of ceramic reinforcements used in metal matrix composites, which greatly influences the mechanical performance of the composite material yet has seldom been quantified with precision. More spec ...

EPFL2017

STED imaging of green fluorescent nanodiamonds containing nitrogen-vacancy-nitrogen centers

Demetri Psaltis, Grégoire Pierre Jean Laporte

We report Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) imaging of green fluorescent nanodiamonds containing Nitrogen-Vacancy-Nitrogen (NVN) centers with a resolution of 70 nm using a commercial microscope. Nanodiamonds have been demonstrated to have the potential ...

Optical Soc Amer2016

Tailoring Copper Nanocrystals towards C-2 Products in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Esmail Kamali Ardekani

Favoring the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) over the hydrogen evolution reaction and controlling the selectivity towards multicarbon products are currently major scientific challenges in sustainable energy research. It is known that the morphology of the c ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016