Plasmonics, a subfield of nanophotonics, has gained significant attention in recent years due to its potential to revolutionize various technological […]
Category: Chemistry/Material Sciences
Cutting-edge perovskite technologies
Perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) have emerged as highly desirable luminescent materials due to their exceptional properties, including a high photoluminescence quantum […]
Mueller matrix microscope
Currently, polarization information is useful in microscopy applications to obtain quantitative measurements and details from the studied samples However, conventional […]
Detection of air pollutants
Atmospheric pollutant gases are mainly released by industrial activities, vehicles, and combustion processes, representing a severe problem for air quality […]
Gas-solid catalytic process for conversion of olefins into alcohols
Improvements made in the petrochemistry field are highly desirable for the companies involved due to the operative costs associated with […]
New rhodium catalysts to improve regioselectivity in hydroformylation
Basic chemical compounds (commodities) are a fundamental part of the chemical industry since their large-scale production is necessary to meet […]
Device and procedure for the sampling and monitoring of volatile organic compounds in air
The presence of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the air, is to this day a relevant problem for the environment […]
High-porosity phase change material for thermal energy storage
In recent years, the increasingly prominent energy and environmental problems have created an urgent need to develop tools that allow […]
Protocol for obtaining panthenol monoesters from enzymatic synthesis
Esters of polyhydroxylated compounds (panthenol) are bioactive products of widespread application in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries due to their […]
Spectral shaper illumination device
Within the emerging photovoltaic (PV) technologies, e.g. based on organic or hybrid perovskite materials, many of the breakthroughs achieved in […]
Wide spectrum photosensitive material for energy absorption
Materials able to efficiently absorb electromagnetic radiation are helpful for different applications (e.g., energy harvesting, photothermal energy applications, or mechanical […]
Functional polymer material labelling with isotopes
In some environments, the presence of contamination can be critical. For example, in space missions, it is mandatory to identify […]
New nanopatterning flexible topology for on-chip photonic metamaterials
By periodically patterning waveguides at the subwavelength scale, a wide range of equivalent refractive indexes can be synthesized lithographically on […]