Browsing Physics by Sponsor "European Research Council (ERC)"
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Ab Initio and Kinetic Modeling of β-d-Xylopyranose under Fast Pyrolysis Conditions
(2024)Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant renewable resource that can be upgraded to chemical and fuel products through a range of thermal conversion processes. Fast pyrolysis is a promising technology that uses high temperatures ... -
Ab Initio calculation of parameters for electron and spin transport in organic crystals
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2018)Organic semiconductors offer several crucial advantages over their inorganic counterparts in electronic and spintronic applications. Besides offering structural advantages such as variety and flexibility, organic semiconductors ... -
All-printed capacitors from graphene-BN-graphene nanosheet heterostructures
(2016)This work aims to develop methodologies to print pinhole-free, vertically stacked heterostructures by sequential deposition of conductive graphene and dielectric h-BN nanosheet networks. We achieve this using a combination ... -
Chapter 16: The structure of liquid foams
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Covalently functionalized hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets by nitrene addition
(Wiley, 2012)Exfoliated h-BN nanosheets were covalently functionalized via a one-step nitrene addition using azide precursor molecules. Functionalized h-BN nanosheets were found to exhibit markedly enhanced dispersability relative to ... -
Dielectric Networks from solution processed 2D nanomaterials
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2022)Shortly after the demonstration of the existence of free-standing graphene, the need for large scale production of two-dimensional nanomaterials was met by the emergence of a solution processing method called liquid phase ... -
Effect of insertion layer on electrode properties in magnetic tunnel junctions with a zero-moment half-metal
(2019)Due to its negligible spontaneous magnetization, high spin polarization and giant perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, Mn2RuxGa (MRG) is an ideal candidate as an oscillating layer in THz spin-transfertorque nano-oscillators. ... -
Examining How Planets Interact With The Stellar Wind Using 3D Numerical Models
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2022)The majority of planets do not exist in empty space, but are embedded in the stellar wind, which consists of mostly ionised Hydrogen ejected from the host star. Understanding stellar wind-planet interactions is of huge ... -
Heat Transfer in Open Quantum Systems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2023)In most situations of practical interest, quantum systems are not isolated from their surroundings but are interacting with an environment. The importance of such situations has been highlighted, for example, in the fields ... -
Hemicellulose pyrolysis: mechanism and kinetics of functionalized xylopyranose
(2024)This work analyzes the thermochemical kinetic influence of the most prominent functionalizations of the β-d-xylopyranose motif, specifically 4-methoxy, 5-carboxyl, and 2-O-acetyl, regarding the pyrolytic depolymerization ... -
Hydrogen evolution across nano-Schottky junctions at carbon supported MoS 2 catalysts in biphasic liquid systems
(2012)The activities of a series of MoS 2-based hydrogen evolution catalysts were studied by biphasic reactions monitored by UV/Vis spectroscopy. Carbon supported MoS 2 catalysts performed best due to an abundance of catalytic ... -
The in-situ structural characterization of layered double hydroxide materials in catalytic and biological applications
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2019)The overall aim of this PhD research is to understand the physical behaviours of layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanomaterials in applied environments. Two aspects of LDH-based applications were studied. Firstly, the thermal ... -
An Investigation into the Accretion Processes of Young Stellar Objects
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2023)The way in which young stars form is complex and fascinating, and is anything but a smooth, continuous process. Studying their dramatic, and sometimes violent, early years of accreting and ejecting material is vital in ... -
Liquid Exfoliation of Layered Materials
(2013)Not all crystals form atomic bonds in three dimensions. Layered crystals, for instance, are those that form strong chemical bonds in-plane but display weak out-of-plane bonding. This allows them to be exfoliated into ... -
Liquid phase exfoliation of GeS nanosheets in ambient conditions for lithium ion battery applications
(2020)The propensity of many 2D materials to oxidize in ambient conditions can complicate production and limit applications potential. Here we describe ambient liquid phase exfoliation of GeS, a layered material known for its ... -
Machine learning density functional theory for the Hubbard model
(2019)The solution of complex many-body lattice models can often be found by defining an energy functional of the relevant density of the problem. For instance, in the case of the Hubbard model the spin-resolved site occupation is ... -
Machine-learning semilocal density functional theory for many-body lattice models at zero and finite temperature
(2021)We introduce a machine-learning density-functional-theory formalism for the spinless Hubbard model in one dimension at both zero and finite temperature. In the zero-temperature case this establishes a one-to-one ... -
Magnetic control over the fractal dimension of supramolecular rod networks
(2021)Controlling supramolecular polymerization is of fundamental importance to create advanced materials and devices. Here we show that the thermodynamic equilibrium of Gd3+-bearing supramolecular rod networks is shifted ... -
Magnetic Fields and Accretion Processes in Young Stars: A case study of the classical T Tauri star DK Tau
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2024)Low-mass young stars that are a few million years old and called classical T Tauri stars (cTTs) experience magnetospheric accretion. They are surrounded by a circumstellar disk (which consists of an inner and outer disk) ...