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Na-Ion Batteries (2020)
Book Chapter
Mirzaeian, M., Abbas, Q., Hunt, M. R., Galeyeva, A., & Raza, R. (2021). Na-Ion Batteries. In Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-815732-9.00052-8

Attributable to increase demand of electrical energy storage (EES), various rechargeable battery systems have been installed successfully, with lithium ion batteries (LIBs) leading the way. However, LIBs are facing resources limitations due to inadeq... Read More about Na-Ion Batteries.

Current State and Future Prospects for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Systems (2020)
Journal Article
Abbas, Q., Mirzaeian, M., Hunt, M. R., Hall, P., & Raza, R. (2020). Current State and Future Prospects for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Systems. Energies, 13(21), Article 5847. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13215847

Electrochemical energy storage and conversion systems such as electrochemical capacitors, batteries and fuel cells are considered as the most important technologies proposing environmentally friendly and sustainable solutions to address rapidly growi... Read More about Current State and Future Prospects for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Systems.

Pseudocapacitive Effect of Carbons Doped with Different Functional Groups as Electrode Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors (2020)
Journal Article
Mirzaeian, M., Abbas, Q., Hunt, M. R., & Hall, P. (2020). Pseudocapacitive Effect of Carbons Doped with Different Functional Groups as Electrode Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors. Energies, 13(21), Article 5577. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13215577

In this study, RF-based un-doped and nitrogen-doped aerogels were produced by polymerisation reaction between resorcinol and formaldehyde with sodium carbonate as catalyst and melamine as the nitrogen source. Carbon/activated carbon aerogels were obt... Read More about Pseudocapacitive Effect of Carbons Doped with Different Functional Groups as Electrode Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors.

Ionic Liquids Batteries (2020)
Book Chapter
Abbas, Q., & Hunt, M. R. (2020). Ionic Liquids Batteries. In Reference module in materials science and materials engineering. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-815732-9.00035-8

Recent progress on new and state of the art electrolytes, active materials and their applications in various configurations has resulted in enormous progress in the field of electrochemical energy storage in general and in the area of rechargeable ba... Read More about Ionic Liquids Batteries.

Morphology control of nickel nanoparticles prepared in situ within silica aerogels produced by novel ambient pressure drying (2020)
Journal Article
Lu, J., Wang, J., Hassan, K. T., Talmantaite, A., Xiao, Z., Hunt, M. R., & Šiller, L. (2020). Morphology control of nickel nanoparticles prepared in situ within silica aerogels produced by novel ambient pressure drying. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 11743. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68510-4

Silica aerogels are low density solids with high surface area and high porosity which are ideal supports for catalyst materials. The main challenge in aerogel production is the drying process, which must remove liquid from the pores of the wet gel wh... Read More about Morphology control of nickel nanoparticles prepared in situ within silica aerogels produced by novel ambient pressure drying.

Electron Compton scattering and the measurement of electron momentum distributions in solids (2020)
Journal Article
Talmantaite, A., Hunt, M., & Mendis, B. (2020). Electron Compton scattering and the measurement of electron momentum distributions in solids. Journal of Microscopy, 279(3), 185-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmi.12854

Electron Compton scattering is a technique that gives information on the electron momentum density of states and is used to characterize the ground state electronic structure in solids. Extracting the momentum density of states requires us to assume... Read More about Electron Compton scattering and the measurement of electron momentum distributions in solids.

Bioinspired Synthesis of Monolithic and Layered Aerogels (2018)
Journal Article
Han, X., Hassan, K. T., Harvey, A., Kulijer, D., Oila, A., Hunt, M. R., & Siller, L. (2018). Bioinspired Synthesis of Monolithic and Layered Aerogels. Advanced Materials, 30(23), Article 1706294. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201706294

Aerogels are the least dense and most porous materials known to man, with potential applications from lightweight superinsulators to smart energy materials. To date their use has been seriously hampered by their synthesis methods, which are laborious... Read More about Bioinspired Synthesis of Monolithic and Layered Aerogels.

Synthesis and Characterisation of Reduced Graphene Oxide/Bismuth Composite for Electrodes in Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, J., Zhang, H., Hunt, M., Charles, A., Tang, J., Bretcanu, O., …Siller, L. (2017). Synthesis and Characterisation of Reduced Graphene Oxide/Bismuth Composite for Electrodes in Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices. ChemSusChem, 10(2), 363-371. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201601553

A reduced graphene oxide/bismuth (rGO/Bi) composite was synthesized for the first time using a polyol process at a low reaction temperature and with a short reaction time (60 °C and 3 hours, respectively). The as-prepared sample is structured with 20... Read More about Synthesis and Characterisation of Reduced Graphene Oxide/Bismuth Composite for Electrodes in Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices.

Sulphur-Containing Compounds as a Response in Sea Urchins Exposed to Alkylated Silicon Nanocrystals and SiO2-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles (2016)
Journal Article
Siller, L., Piticharoenphun, S., Lemloh, M., Horrocks, B., Kaulich, B., Gianoncelli, A., …Medakovic, D. (2016). Sulphur-Containing Compounds as a Response in Sea Urchins Exposed to Alkylated Silicon Nanocrystals and SiO2-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles. Key Engineering Materials, 672, 312-327. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.672.312

We report the effects of exposure to alkylated silicon nanocrystals (‘alkyl-SiNCs’ at concentration ~ 7.2 mg/L) and -Fe2O3 nanoparticles coated with ultra-thin silica (‘SiO2-coated IONPs’ at concentration ~ 150 mg/L) on sea urchins Paracentrotus livi... Read More about Sulphur-Containing Compounds as a Response in Sea Urchins Exposed to Alkylated Silicon Nanocrystals and SiO2-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles.

An insidious and ubiquitous menace (2015)
Journal Article
Hunt, M., & Siller, L. (2015). An insidious and ubiquitous menace. Physics world, 28(9), 40-41. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/28/9/38

When the US Department of Defense describes something as a "pervasive menace", one that can tear apart aeroplanes, shut down oil pipelines and render nuclear weapons useless, most people will react by picturing a terrorist organization or hostile for... Read More about An insidious and ubiquitous menace.

Facile technique for the removal of metal contamination from graphene (2015)
Journal Article
Wells, G., Hunt, M., Hopf, T., Vassilevski, K., Escobedo-Cousin, E., Horsfall, A., …O'Neill, A. (2015). Facile technique for the removal of metal contamination from graphene. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 33(5), Article 051802. https://doi.org/10.1116/1.4928422

Metal contamination deposited on few-layer graphene (3 ± 1 monolayers) grown on SiC(0001) was successfully removed from the surface, using low cost adhesive tape. More than 99% of deposited silver contamination was removed from the surface via peelin... Read More about Facile technique for the removal of metal contamination from graphene.

Electrical characterization of epitaxial graphene field-effect transistors with high-k Al2O3 gate dieletric fabricated on SiC substrates (2015)
Journal Article
Hopf, T., Vassilevski, K., Escobedo-Cousin, E., King, P., Wright, N., O'Neill, A., …Hunt, M. (2015). Electrical characterization of epitaxial graphene field-effect transistors with high-k Al2O3 gate dieletric fabricated on SiC substrates. Materials Science Forum, 821-823, 937-940. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.821-823.937

Top-gated field-effect transistors have been created from bilayer epitaxial graphene samples that were grown on SiC substrates by a vacuum sublimation approach. A high-quality dielectric layer of Al2O3 was grown by atomic layer deposition to function... Read More about Electrical characterization of epitaxial graphene field-effect transistors with high-k Al2O3 gate dieletric fabricated on SiC substrates.

Determination of the adhesion energy of graphene on SiC(0001) via measurement of pleat defects (2014)
Journal Article
Wells, G., Hopf, T., Vassilevski, K., Escobedo-Cousin, E., Wright, N., Horsfall, A., …Hunt, M. (2014). Determination of the adhesion energy of graphene on SiC(0001) via measurement of pleat defects. Applied Physics Letters, 105(19), Article 193109. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4901941

Pleat defects in graphene grown on SiC(0001) were studied and used to determine the adhesion energy between few-layer graphene (3 ± 1 monolayers) and the substrate. An adhesion energy of 3.0±1.61.0J/m2 was determined using a continuum model describin... Read More about Determination of the adhesion energy of graphene on SiC(0001) via measurement of pleat defects.

Dirac point and transconductance of top-gated graphene field-effect transistors operating at elevated temperature (2014)
Journal Article
Hopf, T., Vassilevski, K., Escobedo-Cousin, E., King, P., Wright, N., O'Neill, A., …Hunt, M. (2014). Dirac point and transconductance of top-gated graphene field-effect transistors operating at elevated temperature. Journal of Applied Physics, 116(15), Article 154504. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4898562

Top-gated graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) have been fabricated using bilayer epitaxial graphene grown on the Si-face of 4H-SiC substrates by thermal decomposition of silicon carbide in high vacuum. Graphene films were characterized by Raman... Read More about Dirac point and transconductance of top-gated graphene field-effect transistors operating at elevated temperature.

In situ formation of onion-like carbon from the evaporation of ultra-dispersed nanodiamonds (2013)
Journal Article
Krishnamurthy, S., Butenko, Y. V., Dhanak, V., Hunt, M., & Siller, L. (2013). In situ formation of onion-like carbon from the evaporation of ultra-dispersed nanodiamonds. Carbon, 52, 145-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2012.09.015

We report the in situ formation of onion-like carbon (OLC) by evaporation from a nanodiamond source under ultra-high vacuum conditions. The OLC is characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), Raman spectrosc... Read More about In situ formation of onion-like carbon from the evaporation of ultra-dispersed nanodiamonds.

Extraordinarily Long-Ranged Structural Relaxation in Defective Achiral Carbon Nanotubes (2012)
Journal Article
Hunt, M., & Clark, S. (2012). Extraordinarily Long-Ranged Structural Relaxation in Defective Achiral Carbon Nanotubes. Physical Review Letters, 109(26), Article 265502. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.109.265502

We present a systematic ab initio density functional theory–based study which demonstrates that even one of the simplest defects in single-wall carbon nanotubes, the reconstructed monovacancy (a pentagonal ring and a single dangling bond known as a 5... Read More about Extraordinarily Long-Ranged Structural Relaxation in Defective Achiral Carbon Nanotubes.

DNA-modified silicon nanocrystals studied by X-ray luminescence and X-ray absorption spectroscopies: Observation of a strong infra-red luminescence band (2012)
Journal Article
Coxon, P., Newman, M., Hunt, M., O'Farrell, N., Horrocks, B., Poolton, N., & Siller, L. (2012). DNA-modified silicon nanocrystals studied by X-ray luminescence and X-ray absorption spectroscopies: Observation of a strong infra-red luminescence band. Journal of Applied Physics, 111(5), Article 054311. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3691600

Silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) modified with 18-mer DNA oligonucleotides have been studied by X-ray excited optical luminescence (XEOL) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) in photoluminescence yield (PLY) and total electron yield (TEY) modes. Lumin... Read More about DNA-modified silicon nanocrystals studied by X-ray luminescence and X-ray absorption spectroscopies: Observation of a strong infra-red luminescence band.