Transparent, flexible and conductive films of advanced materials at liquid/liquid interfaces
| Dates: | 22 March 2017 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Department of Materials |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Speaker: | Professor Aldo Zarbin |
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We are reporting during the last years that liquid-liquid (L/L) interfaces are suitable confined medium to stabilize thin films of unprocessable materials, easily transferable to
several ordinary substrates enabling their studies in thin films-based devices. In this talk will be presented the strategies and synthetic approach to prepare thin, transparent,
homogeneous and conducting films of different carbon nanostructures (carbon nanotubes and graphene), as well as their nanocomposites with metal nanoparticles,
conducting polymers and inorganic materials like Prussian blue and analogues. Also, a novel chemical (bottom up) synthetic route to graphene and graphene/polymer
nanocomposite, based on L/L interfaces, will be presented. Application of these films as i) transparent and flexible electrodes; ii) electrodes for alkaline and ion-Li batteries;
iii) electrochromic materials; iv) sensors; v) active layers in photovoltaic devices; vi) SERS substrates; vii) supercapacitor and viii) catalysts, with improved and unusual
performances, will be presented and discussed in light of the structure and morphology of the nanostructured films.
Speaker
Professor Aldo Zarbin
Organisation: Federal University of Parana, Brazil
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