Publications by authors named "Vijay Kumar Shankarayya Wadi"

Structural and morphological control of crystalline nanoparticles is crucial in the field of heterogeneous catalysis and the development of "reaction specific" catalysts. To achieve this, colloidal chemistry methods are combined with ab initio calculations in order to define the reaction parameters, which drive chemical reactions to the desired crystal nucleation and growth path. Key in this procedure is the experimental verification of the predicted crystal facets and their corresponding electronic structure, which in case of nanostructured materials becomes extremely difficult.

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  • - Germanane (GeH) is a 2D material that's gaining attention for its potential use in electronics, solar cells, and photocatalysis due to its impressive properties.
  • - Traditional methods to synthesize GeH are slow, taking 6 to 14 days, but a new technique allows for room temperature synthesis in just a few minutes, making it much more practical for use.
  • - The new synthesis method produces highly pure GeH with a band gap of about 1.4 eV, which is an improvement for applications like solar energy conversion.
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Sulfur copolymers with high sulfur content find a broad range of applications from Li-S batteries to catalytic processes, self-healing materials, and the synthesis of nanoparticles. Synthesis of sulfur-containing polymers via the inverse vulcanization technique gained a lot of attention due to the feasibility of the reaction to produce copolymers with high sulfur content (up to 90 wt %). However, the interplay between the cross-linker and the structure of the copolymers has not yet been fully explored.

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