Nanostructured Metal Oxides for Advanced Applications: Volume 1552 Symposium Held April 1-5, 2013, San Francisco, California U.s.a.

Symposium S, 'Nanostructured Metal Oxides for Advanced Applications', was held April 1-5 at the 2013 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California. Metal oxides represent an appealing and assorted class of materials, whose properties cover the entire range from metals to semiconductors to insulators and almost all aspects of material science, chemistry and physics in a very broad application area. In the past few years, progress has been made on the synthesis, structural, physical, and chemical characterization of self-assembled and hierarchically assembled metal oxide nanostructures that exhibit size-dependent properties. In these proceedings, attention is paid to the synthesis, structural and functional characterization of self-assembled nanostructures and architectures of all metal oxides with application potentials, with particular consideration given to the capability to tailor and control material properties via surface and structural modifications.

Part I. Energy Harvesting, Harnesting and Storage: 1. Hybrid SWCNT-NiO composites for supercapacitor applications Jeffrey R. Alston, Dylan Brokaw, Colton Overson, Thomas A. Schmedake and Jordan C. Poler; 2. Nanoscale blended MnO2 nanoparticles in electro-polymerized polypyrrole conducting polymer for energy storage in supercapacitors Navjot K. Sidhu and A. C. Rastogi; 3. Ce0.97Cu0.03O2 nanocatalysts synthesized via microwave-assisted hydrothermal method: characterization and CO-PROX catalytic efficiency Vinícius D. Araújo, Waldir Avansi, Artur J. S. Mascarenhas, Heloysa M. C. Andrade, Elson Longo and Maria I. B. Bernardi; 4. Three-dimensional nanoarchitectured transparent conducting oxides: synthesis, characterization and photovoltaic applications Zhenzhen Yang and Tao Xu; 5. Multipodal and multilayer TiO2 nanotube arrays: hierarchical structures for energy harvesting and sensing Arash Mohammadpour, Samira Farsinezhad, Ling-Hsuan Hsieh and Karthik Shankar; 6. Controllable synthesis of different bismuth ferrites by a PVA modified hydrothermal method and photocatalytic characterization Tong Tong, Dengren Jin and Jinrong Cheng; Part II. Growth, Sensing, Magnetic, Optical and Electronic Properties: 7. Metal oxides as functional semiconductors: an inkjet approach Anna Vilà, Alberto Gomez, Luis Portilla, Marti Cirici and Juan Ramon Morante; 8. Influence of synthesis route on the morphology of SrTiO3 particles Marina M. Leite and Flavio M. Vichi; 9. Magnetic response of iron oxide nanoparticles as measured by AC Faraday rotation Maarij Syed and John Moore; 10. Fabrication of conductive glass nanocomposites with networks of antimony tin oxide Timothy L. Pruyn and Rosario A. Gerhardt; 11. Synthesis and characterization of yttrium titanate and Er doped yttrium titanate nanofibers Kanchan Mondal, Kaleb Hartman, George Trifon, Debalina Dasgupta, Matthew Bolin, Mallika Dasari and Chung Ying Tsai; 12. Detecting H2S oscillatory response using surface plasmon spectroscopy Enrico Della Gaspera and Alessandro Martucci; 13. Suppression of ferromagnetic ordering in thicker Co-sputtered Mn doped MgO films Sreekanth K. Mahadeva, Zhi-Yong Quan, J. C. Fan, K. S. Sreelatha, L. Belova, Roman Puzniak and K. V. Rao; 14. Thin films made from colloidal antimony tin oxide nanoparticles for transparent conductive applications Abigail Halim and Rosario A. Gerhardt; 15. Fabrication and characterization of antimony tin oxide nanoparticle networks inside polystyrene Ryan J. Gussenhoven and Rosario A. Gerhardt; 16. Effect of silver thickness and annealing on optical and electrical properties of Nb2O5/Ag/Nb2O5 multilayers as transparent composite electrode on flexible substrate Aritra Dhar and T. L. Alford; 17. Prevention of burning phenomenon in fabrication of anodic aluminum oxide membranes using a constant current method Chih-Yao Chen and I-Chen Chen; 18. Synthesis and properties of nanocoral ZnO structures Michal A. Borysiewicz, Anna Baranowska-Korczyc, Marek Ekielski, Marek Wzorek, Elzbieta Dynowska, Tomasz Wojciechowski, Eliana Kaminska, Krzysztof Fronc, Danek Elbaum, Tomasz Wojtowicz and Anna Piotrowska; 19. Optical properties of nanostructured electrodes Akram A. Khosroabadi, Palash Gangopadhyay, Binh Duong, Jayan Thomas and Robert A. Norwood; 20. Perforation and carbon ablation experiments on nano-ceria by electron irradiation Umananda M. Bhatta, Faris Karounis, Andrew Stringfellow and Günter Möbus.