Projects
Optical confinement phenomena in plasmonic nanomaterials with predesigned electromagnetic properties. KU Leuven
TiO2 Gas Phase Photocatalysis from Morphological Design to Plasmonic Enhancement KU Leuven
The past decades, photocatalysis has emerged as a powerful technology for pollution abatement and energy applications, but its use in gaseous environment is less obvious than in water borne applications. Therefore this thesis specifically aims at understanding and improving TiO2-based photocatalysis in all its facets towards gas phase processes.
In first instance a suitable photoreactor is developed and validated. A simple ...
Optical spectroscopy of rare-earth (lanthanide) ions doped iparent nano-glass-ceramics with application to plasmonic and meta-materio-structures. KU Leuven
Solar hydrogen production from seawater using stabilized plasmonic photocatalysts. University of Antwerp
Development of drug-injection system using plasmonic endoscopy toward single cell study. KU Leuven
In biology and biomedical research, where the microscopic organization of proteins and other molecules play a key role in the functioning of cells and organisms, it is imperative to zoom into the single cell and look at the underlying processes. Fluorescence-based microscopy techniques have been developed to get superresolution images of the structural organization inside living cells with resolution down to 10-50 nm. But these techniques ...
Optical confinement phenomena in plasmonic nanomaterials with predesigned electromagnetic properties. University of Antwerp
Structure-based discovery of positive allosteric modulators of the alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor as cognition enhancers. KU Leuven
Imaging through metamaterials. KU Leuven
Plasmon-enhanced CO2 electroreduction based on metal oxide inverse opal supports decorated with bimetallic nanoparticles KU Leuven
This project uses an original approach for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction (eCO2RR). The catalysts are made using the physical method of cluster beam deposition onto a metal oxide inverse opal supports. Exploiting the exceptional size and composition control of cluster sources may enable the identification of novel high-performance eCO2RR by means of a combination of structural, spectroscopic, and reactivity experiments. The applicability of ...