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Some Functional Materials

 

Quartz

Shown above is a piezoelectric quartz crystal mounted in a temperature controlled cell. The vibrational frequency of the crystal is very sensitive to any mass deposited on its surface, which can be exploited to develop a variety of different sensors.

 

 

 

MOF sim

Metal Organic Materials are crystalline porous structures that have many potential applications including hydrogen storage, chemical separations and catalysis.

 

 

PdNano

The Palladium nanoparticles shown above have different shapes, and therefore different functionalities, depending on how they are prepared. They are used in photocatalysis, fuel cell, and hydrogen economy applications