Development of Novel Inorganic Scintillator Materials

High-throughput combinatorial database of electronic band structures for inorganic scintillator materials.

For the purpose of creating a database of electronic structures of all the known inorganic compounds, we have developed a computational framework based on high-throughput ab initio calculations (AFLOW) and an online repository (www.aflowlib.org). In this article, we report the first step of this task: the calculation of band structures for 7439 compounds intended for the research of scintillato...

Novel 2D-Inorganic Materials for Gas Sensing

Nowadays, modern technology is demanding more efficient gas sensors for advanced applications [1]. Consequently, there is a considerable effort towards the goal of high performance gas sensors based on novel sensing materials. Since the first report of graphene, thin two-dimensional (2D) inorganic nanomaterials with atomic or molecular thicknesses have attracted great research interest for gas ...

Development of Inorganic Resists for Electron Beam Lithography: Novel Materials and Simulations

Hybrid organic-inorganic materials for novel photonic applications.

This novel joint feature issue on "Hybrid organic-inorganic materials for photonic applications" in Applied Optics and Optics Materials Express comprises 14 papers on liquid crystals, polymers, photoconductive materials, and gratings and filters. It is hoped that this feature issue encourages and stimulates further research into hybrid materials with enhanced linear and nonlinear optical proper...

Novel sol-gel organic-inorganic hybrid materials for drug delivery.

PURPOSE The aim of the present study was to synthetize and characterize novel sol-gel organic-inorganic hybrid materials to be used for controlled drug delivery application. MATERIALS AND METHODS Organic-inorganic hybrid class I materials based on poly(epsilon-caprolactone) (PCL 6, 12, 24 and 50 wt%) and zirconia-yttria (ZrO2-5%Y2O3) were synthesized by a sol-gel method, from a multicomponent...