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Tanja Kallio
Room-Temperature Micropillar Growth of Lithium-Titanate-Carbon Composite Structures by Self-Biased Direct Current Magnetron Sputtering for Lithium Ion Microbatteries
Here, an unidentified type of micropillar growth is described at room temperature during conventional direct-current magnetron sputtering (DC-MS) deposition from a Li4Ti5O12+graphite sputter target under negative substrate bias and high operating pressure. These fabricated carbon-Li2O-TiO2 microstructures consisting of various Li4Ti5O12/Li2TiO3/LixTiO2 crystalline phases are demonstrated as an anode material in Li-ion microbatteries. The described micropillar fabrication method is a low-cost, substrate independent, single-step, room-temperature vacuum process utilizing a mature industrial complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible technology. Furthermore, tentative considerat…
Aikakausmedia digitaalisessa ympäristössä - mistä tekijöistä syntyvät menestyksen mahdollisuudet? : yleisöyhteisöjen tavoittelu, yhteisen arvon luominen & yleisöjen sitouttaminen
Mediaorganisaatioiden yhtenä keskeisenä tavoitteena nähdään olevan yleisöjen tavoittelu digitaalisessa ympäristössä sekä mahdollisuudet, jotka syntyvät niiden kanssa tehtävästä yhteistyöstä. Taustalla vaikuttaa mediaympäristön voimakas digitalisoituminen. Tässä tutkimuksessa on tarkasteltu tekijöitä, joista aikakausmedian menestyksen mahdollisuudet rakentuvat digitaalisessa ympäristössä. Tutkimus on toteutettu aiemman tutkimustiedon sekä määrällisen aineiston avulla. Työn aineisto on kerätty uniikilla mittarilla, joka syntyi yhdistämällä yhteisöllisyyttä kartoittavia Sense of Community (SOC)-, sekä Sense of Virtual Community (SOVC) -teorioita. Mittarin tarkoituksena on kartoittaa aikakausme…
Conjugation with carbon nanotubes improves the performance of mesoporous silicon as Li-ion battery anode
Carbon nanotubes can be utilized in several ways to enhance the performance of silicon-based anodes. In the present work, thermally carbonized mesoporous silicon (TCPSi) microparticles and single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are conjugated to create a hybrid material that performs as the Li-ion battery anode better than the physical mixture of TCPSi and CNTs. It is found out that the way the conjugation is done has an essential role in the performance of the anode. The conjugation should be made between negatively charged TCPSi and positively charged CNTs. Based on the electrochemical experiments it is concluded that the positive charges, i.e., excess amine groups of the hybrid material i…
Carbocatalytic Oxidative Dehydrogenative Couplings of (Hetero)Aryls by Oxidized Multi‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Liquid Phase
HNO3-oxidized carbon nanotubes catalyze oxidative dehydrogenative (ODH) carbon-carbon bond formation between electron-rich (hetero)aryls with O-2 as a terminal oxidant. The recyclable carbocatalytic method provides a convenient and an operationally easy synthetic protocol for accessing various benzofused homodimers, biaryls, triphenylenes, and related benzofused heteroaryls that are highly useful frameworks for material chemistry applications. Carbonyls/quinones are the catalytically active site of the carbocatalyst as indicated by model compounds and titration experiments. Further investigations of the reaction mechanism with a combination of experimental and DFT methods support the compet…
Biomimetic oxygen reduction by cofacial porphyrins at a liquid-liquid interface.
Oxygen reduction catalyzed by cofacial metalloporphyrins at the 1,2-dichlorobenzene−water interface was studied with two lipophilic electron donors of similar driving force, 1,1'-dimethylferrocene (DMFc) and tetrathiafulvalene (TTF). The reaction produces mainly water and some hydrogen peroxide, but the mediator has a significant effect on the selectivity, as DMFc and the porphyrins themselves catalyze the decomposition and the further reduction of hydrogen peroxide. Density functional theory calculations indicate that the biscobaltporphyr- in, 4,5-bis(5-(2,8,13,17-tetraethyl-3,7,12,18-tetramethylporphyrinyl))-9,9-dimethylxanthene, Co2(DPX), actually catalyzes oxygen reduction to hydrogen p…
Review article: recommended reading list of early publications on atomic layer deposition - outcome of the "virtual Project on the History of ALD"
Atomic layer deposition (ALD), a gas-phase thin film deposition technique based on repeated, self-terminating gas-solid reactions, has become the method of choice in semiconductor manufacturing and many other technological areas for depositing thin conformal inorganic material layers for various applications. ALD has been discovered and developed independently, at least twice, under different names: atomic layer epitaxy (ALE) and molecular layering. ALE, dating back to 1974 in Finland, has been commonly known as the origin of ALD, while work done since the 1960s in the Soviet Union under the name "molecular layering" (and sometimes other names) has remained much less known. The virtual proj…