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 EMÜ Bridge Funding (P200030VLVB) and Mobilitas+ grant (MOBJD1200).
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 2015-2023 EQUiTANT (TK134),
Latest updates
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!
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Special Issue on Metal-Oxide Thin Films and Nanostructured Films: Focus on Energy Applications
We would like to draw your attention to our Special Issue “Metal-Oxide Thin Films and Nanostructured Films: Focus on Energy Applications”, in Materials MDPI. The aims and topics are given at HERE. Number of published manuscript: 1.
Materials MDPI is a well recognized Open Access journal indexed in Scopus with IF = 3.748. To submit to the Special Issue, please click the button “Submit to Special Issue” in the upper left corner. If you need more information, you can contact us directly or through the main webpage of the Special Issue.
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10/04/2023
We are glad to inform that our PhD student Mr. Patrico Paredes just published his first research paper in the filed of nanomaterials applied to photocatalysis in Nanomaterials MDPI Open Access journal. Congratulations Patricio!
28/03/2023
The first manuscript reporting the extraction of heavy metal ions from water using cobalt-based nanocomposite is now available in Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. The study is the first of its kind and other results will follow. ” Nanocobalt based (Co@Co(OH)2) sand nanocomposite applied to manganese extraction from contaminated water“