Nanoparticles applied to sustainable energy, water remediation, and biomedical applications
Website conceptualization and administration: Erwan Rauwel
Research overview
Our research activities are in the frame of 5 UN sustainable development goals: Good health and well being, Cleaner water and sanitation, Affordable and cleaner energy, Climate actions, and Partnership for the goals. Our projects objectives fall in EU-decarbonized energy transition of 2050, and EU Green Deal principles of sustainability and green industry by promoting reusability of new technology and circular economy.
Our research activities are presently partially funded by the ETAg TEAM Grant (PRG2115) and Mobilitas+ grants (MOBJD1200 and MOBJD1204).
We are a material science and nano-engineering research group with the main research focus on metal oxide and metal nanoparticle synthesis. Our research group is more particularly interested by silver, cobalt, copper, copper nitride, zinc oxide, hafnium dioxide, and hybrid nanomaterials. The main targeted applications are sustainable energy, biocidal coatings, water purification, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, photocatalysis and biomedical application.
In addition to the conventional synthesis methods, green synthesis is an objective of ours. Team main expertise includes also thin film synthesis (ALD, MOCVD, PLD, sputtering), sol-gel chemistry, transmission electron microscopy and related techniques, vacuum techniques, CMOS technology, photoluminescence, scientific writing, research projects.
Our research activities were partially funded by the Estonian Centre of Excellence EQUiTANT TK134 (2015-2023) and EMÜ Bridge Funding (P200030VLVB) (2020-2023).
Latest updates
15/04/2024
Reynald Ponte who is PhD student just published his first research paper on the synthesis of SnO2 nanoparticles in Journal of Material Science (Springer). Congratulations Reynald!
08/01/2024
This is great news for the whole team! Our Team Grant research funding application PRG2115 got funded! Sihtasutus Eesti Teadusagentuur(ETAg) will support our research activities related to water remediation (extraction of heavy metal ions, dye removal and removing bacteria).
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All The research Team wish you a Happy and Successful New Year 2024
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2023
01/12/2023
Dr. Priyanka Panchal received a Mobilitas+ Postdoctoral grant to join our team and work in the frame of the carbon-based nanomaterials applied to water cleaning and hydrogen production under the supervision of Prof. Erwan Rauwel and Protima Rauwel. Congratulations and welcome Priyanka!
24/11/2023
We are happy to announce that our Special Issue in MDPI Nanomaterials has been converted into a book “Functional Nanomaterials for Optoelectronics and Photocatalysis”. We thank all the authors who have contributed to its success.
01/11/2023
Dr. Sadaf Alibhai Jethva received a Mobilitas+ Postdoctoral grant to join our team and work in the frame of the nanomaterials-based applied to dye degradation and green electricity production in aqueous media under the supervision of Prof. Protima Rauwel. Congratulations and welcome Sadaf!
25/09/2023
Congratulations to our 3 PhD students Keshav Nagpal, Patricio Paredes and Reynald Ponté who attended the E-MRS Warsaw and had very interesting and fruitful discussions with other attendees. They presented their research outcomes through 3 poster presentations.
01/09/2023
Congratulations to Prof. Protima Rauwel for her IAAM Scientist Medal in recognition for her contribution to “Nanomaterials & Nanotechnology” at the 55th Assembly of Advanced Materials Congress in August 2023, Sweden.
31/08/2023
Keshav Nagpal who is PhD student just published his fourth research paper on the synthesis of ZnO nanorod hierarchical structure in Nanotechnology (IOP). Congratulations Keshav!