The Electrochemical Society Interface • Fall 2001 here has been tremendous recent interest in the design and assembly of porous nanostructured materials.1 Synthetic approaches range from coordination-polymer formation to surfactant-templated alumino-silicate growth to semiconductor nanoparticle aggregation, while functions include chemical catalysis, chemical sensing, energy storage, and energy...

Highly-uniform In2O3/CuO bilayer and multilayer porous thin films were successfully fabricated using a self-assembled soft template and a simple sputtering deposition technique. The sensor based on the In2O3/CuO bilayer porous thin film shows obviously improved sensing performance to ethanol at a lower working temperature, compared to its single layer counterpart sensors. The response of the In...

photocatalytic degradation of toxic organic compound in water, soil and air by semiconductor catalysts such as tio2 and zno have received much attention over the last two decades. however, the low quantum yield, easy agglomeration and difficult post-separation of these inorganic catalysts limit their application for large-scale applications. metal-organic frameworks (mofs) are the latest class ...

thin bonded films have many applications in antireflection and reflection coating, insulating and conducting films and semiconductor industries. thermal conductivity is one of the most important parameter for power packaging since the thermal resistance of the interconnections is directly related to the heat removal capability and thermal management of the power package. the defects in material...

1 Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile, 2 Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 3 Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Chile, 4 Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias and Facultad de Artes Liberales, Universida...

1) Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-84506 Bratislava, Slovakia (e-mail: [email protected]) 2) University of Trnava, Faculty of Education, Department of Biology, Priemyselná 4, P.O. Box 9, SK-91843 Trnava, Slovakia (e-mail: [email protected]) 3) Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (CSIC), Departamento de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva, General S...

We have explored the photoelectrochemical behavior of carbon/titania composites, aiming at understanding the mechanisms of the photoinduced processes occurring in such hybrid photocatalysts that lead to enhanced photocatalytic efficiencies of the pristine semiconductor for the photodegradation of refractory pollutants in water. In a first step, spectrometric techniques have been applied to inve...