{"id":18,"date":"2024-04-04T02:24:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/hitechdevices\/functional-nanomaterials\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T02:24:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:24:36","slug":"functional-nanomaterials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/hitechdevices\/functional-nanomaterials\/","title":{"rendered":"Functional Nanomaterials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Functional Micro\/Mesoporous Nanomaterials for Novel Energy Conversion and Storage Systems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Group leader: <strong><a href=\"mailto:enn.lust@ut.ee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enn Lust<\/a><\/strong>, Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu<\/em><\/p>\n<p>X-ray absorption, neutron scattering (SANS, QENS), STM, AFM, FTIR, EQCM, Raman spectroscopy, FIB-SEM, FIB-TOF-SIMS and HT-TEM will be developed and applied for in situ and in operando analysis of electrochemical processes at solid|gas, solid|electrolyte and complex solid|solid oxide|gas interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Novel composite catalysts based on micro\/meso-porous carbons (activated with Pt-metals, d-metals and alloys nanoclusters) with tunable porosity and linear dimensions, activated rare-earth metal composite oxides and Ni-free anodes with hierarchical structure and tunable ratio of micro\/meso-pores will be synthesized and tested as materials for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, solid oxide fuel cells, solid oxide electrolysers and synthetic fuel synthesis reactors.<\/p>\n<p>Novel cathodes and anodes and novel ionic liquids and electrolyte mixtures will be tested for Li- and Na-ion batteries and hybrid supercapacitors.<\/p>\n<p>The electrospinning \u2013 isostatic compressing method will be applied for preparation of the nanowire carbon and modified carbon electrodes for supercapacitors, Na- and Li-ion batteries. Direct electrochemical separator deposition method onto porous carbon electrodes using electro-polymerisable ionic liquids has been worked out for preparation of supercapacitor devices with very high voltage.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretical models, calculation and fitting methods will be developed further for analysis of mixed kinetic processes at porous complex catalysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Functional Micro\/Mesoporous Nanomaterials for Novel Energy Conversion and Storage Systems Group leader: Enn Lust, Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu X-ray absorption, neutron scattering (SANS, QENS), STM, AFM, FTIR, EQCM, Raman spectroscopy, FIB-SEM, FIB-TOF-SIMS and HT-TEM will be developed and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/hitechdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/hitechdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/hitechdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/hitechdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/hitechdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/hitechdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/hitechdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/hitechdevices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}