Catalysis – The Early Stage Crystallographers Group

BiMo and Ti oxide nanofibers with enhanced photocatalytic activity

The reknowned capabilities of TiO2-based materials in photocatalytic oxidation of organic pollutants and in photoelectrochemical conversion of solar energy are inherently limited by the poor quantum efficiency of titanium. Research in this area is targeting improved generation and separation of photoinduced electron-hole pairs in TiO2 in order to enhance photocatalytic activity.
In this CrystEngComm Advance Article, […]

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 for the discovery of quasicrystals

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 to Dan Shechtman from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel “for the discovery of quasicrystals”. His discovery of a ten-fold diffraction pattern from the rapidly cooled alloys of Al with 10—14 at. % Mn, Fe, or Cr in […]