This proposal aims to provide a thorough understanding of the surface chemistry and physics during atomic layer deposition (ALD) of cobalt and nickel for applications in microelectronics and catalysis. In microelectronics, ALD of high quality, continuous
Gaining competitive advantage requires today’s businesses and industries to innovate and improve at an increasing speed. Modern products, production processes and services are more complex than ever, so optimizing product formulations/compositions, production process settings and services requires solving high-dimensional decision problems. An important management science tool to cope with this task is design of experiments. A design is a ...
In modern society, charge storage devices are ubiquitous and are predicted to become ever more important in the future. This will need to be supported by fundamental advancements as portable devices become more power-hungry, more charge storage is needed to bridge electricity generation drop- offs as a result of increased reliance on renewable energy sources, and devices require improved charge-discharge cycling stability for example for ...
Lithium-based batteries will play an increasingly important role in electrical energy storage because of their high energy density. However, current Li-ion technology is insufficient to meet long-term needs (e.g., extended-range electric vehicles). Although intense research efforts have led to significant progress, a major limiting factor is the low cathode capacity. Sulfur is one of the most promising cathode materials because of its high ...
Low field nuclear magnetic resonance is a unique technique for obtaining local information inside large opaque materials, and extract physicochemical parameters such as porosity and permeability. This information is invaluable for the understanding of carbonate and sandstone reservoir rocks, as well as porous materials such as geo-polymers and building materials such as clay-based ceramics, calcium- silicate blocks and new generation hybrid ...
Forward Osmosis (FO) has received considerable attention in the past decade for its potential to recover water from difficult to treat waste streams, or to concentrate valuable liquid streams. However, breakthrough of FO is currently limited, due to a number of bottlenecks, which are addressed in this project. These include: inefficient mass transfer near and inside the membrane, membrane fouling and membrane integrity. These bottlenecks are ...
One of the largest challenges in the worldwide energy transformation to renewable energy is the fluctuating energy output that has to be balanced by large-scale energy storage. Redox flow batteries (RFBs) are one of the more promising approaches for such large-scale energy grids.However, there are some challenges for RFBs, including high cost and low power density. In this project, metal-free (organic) redox pairs ...
Self-assembly, where particles cluster together autonomically, is an approach to create new materials for applications, such as electronic devices. However, the control over long-range ordering of the formed structures needs more research to drive technological advancement. The shape and the range of the ordered structure is dictated by the properties on the particle surface as well as the conditions at which the self-assembly takes place. In ...
Quality control processes in manufacturing industries that need to revise chemical compositions of products are often cumbersome and inefficient. This is due to their operational costs, high time demand and destructive character. In the past decades, the combination of spectroscopy with statistical models has proven to be the most cost-efficient and effective way of replacing traditional chemistry methods for reference analyses, avoiding ...