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Operando Photonic Band Gap Probe of Battery Electrode Materials
Alex Lonergan, Umair Gulzar, Yan Zhang +1
Innovative new materials are consistently emerging as electrode candidates from lithium-ion battery research, promising high energy densities and high-rate capabilities. Understand…
Dispersion and Thickness Control in Evaporation-induced Self-Assembly of Opal Photonic Crystals
Alex Grant, Alex Lonergan, Colm O'Dwyer
Opals are naturally occurring photonic crystals which can be formed easily using low-cost self-assembly methods. While the optical behaviour of opals has received significant atten…
Porous Semiconductors: Growth and Applications
Colm O'Dwyer
Big pores, small pores, ordered pores, random pores, they all have a function and as is often found, show behaviour in new materials that is not always predicted or obvious at the…
Optical Effects and Applications Associated with Photonic Crystal Materials
Alex Lonergan, Colm O'Dwyer
The ability to selectively redirect specific wavelengths of light has attracted a lot attention for photonic crystal materials. Presently, there is a wealth of research relating to…
Operando Methods and Probes for Battery Electrodes and Materials
Alex Grant, Colm O'Dwyer
With the importance of Li-ion and emerging alternative batteries to our electric future, predicting new sustainable materials, electrolytes and complete cells that safely provide h…
Metallo-Dielectric Photonic Crystals and Bandgap Blue-Shift
Alex Lonergan, Breda Murphy, Colm O'Dwyer
One of the most appealing aspects of photonic crystal structures is the photonic bandgap created in structures with sufficiently high dielectric contrasts between constituent mater…
Limitations of Ordered Macroporous Battery Electrode Materials at High Charge and Discharge Rates
Sally O'Hanlon, David McNulty, Ruiyuan Tian +2
Adding porosity to battery electrodes is believed to be universally useful for adding space to accommodate volumetric expansion, electrolyte access to all active materials, helping…
Conductive Paintable 2D Layered MoS2 Inks
Elaine Carroll, Darragh Buckley, David McNulty +1
Conductive and paintable inks of 2D layered MoS2 with aspect ratio-dependent conductivity are demonstrated. Using ultrasonically assisted solvent-exfoliation of MoS2, high concentr…
Architected Porous Metals in Electrochemical Energy Storage
Vladimir Egorov, Colm O'Dwyer
Porous metallic structures are regularly used in electrochemical energy storage devices as supports, current collectors or active electrode materials. Bulk metal porosification, de…
Semiconducting Metal Oxide Photonic Crystal Plasmonic Photocatalysts
Gillian Collins, Alex Lonergan, David McNulty +4
Plasmonic photocatalysis has facilitated rapid progress in enhancing photocatalytic efficiency under visible light irradiation. Poor visible-light-responsive photocatalytic materia…
Filling in the gaps: The nature of light transmission through solvent-filled inverse opal photonic crystals
Alex Lonergan, Changyu Hu, Colm O'Dwyer
Understanding the nature of light transmission and the photonic bandgap in inverse opal photonic crystals is essential for linking their optical characteristics to any application.…
Additive manufacturing for energy storage: Methods, designs and materials selection for customizable 3D printed batteries and supercapacitors
Umair Gulzar, Colm Glynn, Colm O'Dwyer
Additive manufacturing and 3D printing in particular have the potential to revolutionize existing fabrication processes where objects with complex structures and shapes can be buil…
Evolution of 3D Printing Methods and Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage
Vladimir Egorov, Umair Gulzar, Yan Zhang +2
Additive manufacturing has revolutionized the building of materials direct from design, allowing high resolution rapid prototyping in complex 3D designs with many materials. 3D pri…
Energy Autonomous Wearable Sensors for Smart Healthcare: A Review
Abhishek Singh Dahiya, Jerome Thireau, Jamila Boudaden +17
Energy Autonomous Wearable Sensors (EAWS) have attracted a large interest due to their potential to provide reliable measurements and continuous bioelectric signals, which help to…
Comparing the suitability of Lithium ion, Lithium Sulfur and Lithium air batteries for current and future vehicular applications
Gorazd Lampic, Gorazd Gotovac, Hugh Geaney +1
In this report, future performance demands of batteries for various vehicular applications are modeled. Vehicles ranging in size from electric bikes to heavy trucks are assessed us…
Optical Response of Nanostructured Surfaces: Experimental Investigation of the Composite Diffracted Evanescent Wave Model
G. Gay, O. Alloschery, B. Viaris de Lesegno +3
Investigations of the optical response of subwavelength structure arrays milled into thin metal films has revealed surprising phenomena including reports of unexpectedly high trans…