El grupo centra su actividad en la búsqueda de materiales avanzados a través de la producción, tratamiento, caracterización estructural y compositiva, funcionalidad físico-química, caracterización fotónica de materiales en general y de estructuras nanométricas. Todas estas actividades están dirigidas a la catálisis, la fotónica y las aplicaciones energéticas.
Líneas y actividades del grupo ENPHOCAMAT:
• New nanostructured materials
• Nanostructured carbon supercapacitors
• Optical characterization: polarimetry and generalized ellipsometry
• Photonic Materials
• Preparation and characterization of new materials with catalytic properties
• Studies of the relationship between the catalytic behavior and the characteristics of materials;
• The application of new materials as catalysts in:
– Chemical recycling of CO2
– Transformation of biomass-derived resources into chemicals and energy carriers.
Enric Bertran Serra (Catedrático) ebertran(at)ub.edu
José Luis Andújar Bella (Titular)
Franc Güell Vilà (Titular)
Roger Amade Rovira (Agregado) r.amade(at)ub.edu
Stefanos Chaitoglou (Investigador Postdoctoral Beatriu de Pinós)
Islam Alshaikh (Colaborador)
Jordi Díaz Marcos (Colaborador)
Insights into the inherent properties of vertical graphene flakes towards hydrogen evolution reaction. Chaitoglou S., Amade R., Bertran E. Applied Surface Science, 592, 153327, 2022.
Spectrally modulated polarimetry with wavelength domain analysis. Bendada H., Bakhouche B., González-Siu L.O., Bruce N.C., Arteaga O. Applied Optics, 61, 19, 5608, 2022.
Characterization of amorphous carbon films from 5 nm to 200 nm on single-side polished a-plane sapphire substrates by spectroscopic ellipsometry. Li Z., Cui C., Zhou X., Bian S., Arteaga O., Xu X. Frontiers in Physics, 10, 968101, 2022.
Model for the depolarizing retarder in Mueller matrix polarimetry. Ossikovski R., Arteaga O., Garcia-Caurel E., Hingerl K. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision, 39, 5, 873, 2022
Three-dimensional Si / vertically oriented graphene nanowalls composite for supercapacitor applications. Hussain S., Amade R., Boyd A., Musheghyan-Avetisyan A., Alshaikh I., Martí-Gonzalez , J., Pascual E., Meenan B.J., Bertran-Serra E. Ceramics International. 2021, 47, 15
Enhanced capacitance of manganese oxide driven by hierarchically structured carbon nanotube-carbon nanowall composite. Amade R., Alshaikh I., Musheghyan-Avetisyan A., Bertran-Serra E. Surface and Coatings Technology. 2021, 428, 127885
Optimal elliptical retarder in rotating compensator imaging polarimetry. Gottlieb D., Arteaga O. Optics Letters, 46, 13 (2021)
Mueller matrix ellipsometer based on discrete-angle rotating Fresnel rhomb compensators. Bian S., Cui C., Arteaga O. Applied Optics. 2021, 60, 16
Three-dimensional Si / vertically oriented graphene nanowalls composite for supercapacitor applications. Hussain S., Amade R., Boyd A., Musheghyan-Avetisyan A., Alshaikh I., Martí-Gonzalez J., Pascual E., J. Meenan B., Bertran-Serra. E. Ceramics International. Vol 47, Issue 15, August 2021, 21751-21758.
Homogeneous Fe2O3 coatings on carbon nanotube structures for supercapacitors. Yu P., Coll M., Amade R., Alshaikh I., Pantoja-Suárez F., Pascual E., Andújar J.L., Serra E.B. Dalton Transactions. 2020, 49(13)
Photoluminescence from carbon structures grown by inductively coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition. Musheghyan-Avetisyan A., Güell F., Martínez-Alanis P.R., Amade R., Martí-González J., Bertran-Serra E. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films. 2020, 38(2), 023405
Super-Capacitive Performance of Manganese Dioxide/Graphene Nano-Walls Electrodes Deposited on Stainless Steel Current Collectors. R. Amade, A. Muyshegyan-Avetisyan, J. Marti-Gonzalez, .A Perez del Pino, E. Gyorgy, E. Pascual, JL. Andujar, E. Bertran-Serra. Materials, 12(2020)483
European projects:
– “Zinc Oxide Nanostructures for Advanced Multifunctional Devices”, UB-04-2019, IP: F.Güell
– “Textile Competence Center Vorarlberg 2, TCCV2”, FFG 882502, COMET-Competence Centers Excellent Technologies (COMET PROJECTS) , FFGAT – The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), 2021-2025, IPs: E.Bertran and R.Amade
National projects:
– “Síntesis de CNS (VACNTs y GNWs) en cintas metálicas flexibles y estudio de sus propiedades electroquímicas tras la funcionalización con materiales compuestos de óxido metálico, ADHES”, ENE2017-89210-C2-2-R, Programa Nacional de Energía, 2017-2020, IPs: E.Bertran and E.Pascual.
– “Electrodos híbridos para almacenamiento de energía avanzado: hacia un futuro sostenible, ESTORE”, PID2020-116612RB-C32; Programa Nacional de Energía, 2021-2024, IPs: E.Bertran and R.Amade.
– “Un nuevo método para la detección quiro-óptica basado en la doble refracción circular de la luz”, polarimetry”, RTI2018-098410-J-I00; Programa Nacional de Física, 2019-2022, IP: O.Arteaga
– Catalysis laboratory: http://www.qi.ub.es/matcat/eng%20laboratori.htm
– Spectral and Generalized Ellipsometer (UV-VIS)
– Mueller Matrix Polarimeter
– PECVD-PVD CNTs reactor
– ICP-CVD Graphene reactor
– Thermal evaporator
– Sputtering Magnetron (3”)
– Langmuir-Blodgett
– Ion beam gun (etching and surface treatment)
– Nanotribometer
– Goniometer (contact angle)
– Electrical Transport measurements
– Electrochemical characterization (voltammetry & amperometry)
– Impedance Spectroscopy
The group maintains relations of scientific collaboration and exchange of students and researchers in more than 30 Universities and Research Centers around the world, among which we highlight the following:
• Hong Kong City University
• TUG, Graz
• University of Ulster
• KIT, Karlsruhe
• University of Innsbruck
• NIMP, Bucharest
• Ecole Polytechnique de Palaiseau
• CICESE, Ensenada
• CEMES, Toulouse
• ETH, Zurich
• Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology National Center for Scientific Research «Demokritos”