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Article Citation - WoS: 40Citation - Scopus: 44Plasmon-Enhanced Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Activity of Gold Nanoparticles-Decorated Hematite Nanostructures(Elsevier Ltd., 2021) Emre, Alp; İmamoğlu, Rizvan; Savacı, Umut; Turan, Servet; Kazmalı, M. Kürşat; Genç, AzizHematite (alpha-Fe2O3) nanoparticles have received significant attention from the researchers due to their favorable and desirable properties in diverse applications. In the present study, single-crystalline hematite pseudo-nanocubes and porous nanorods were synthesized by the hydrothermal route without the usage of any surfactant agents, which were then decorated with gold nanoparticles hidrothermally in an aqueous solution in order to increase the solar energy conversion efficiency. The photocatalytic activities of synthesized nanoparticles were studied against Rhodamine B (RhB) under the illumination of AM 1.5 solar simulator. The excellent photocatalytic efficiency was obtained by changing morphological features of hematite nanostructures, along with the photocatalytic performance enhancement up to 25% thanks to the surface plasmon resonances for the gold nanoparticles-decorated hematite nanostructures. For instance, gold-nanoparticles decorated hematite pseudo-nanocubes almost completely degraded all the RhB after 30 min of illumination. It was also observed that all hematite products, with and without gold decoration, exhibited an impressive antibacterial effect and showed the lethal effect in E.coli. The same nanoparticles being photocatalytically active for organic pollutant degradation and having antibacterial effect may have a good potential for waste water remediation applications. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 169Citation - Scopus: 177Thin Film Microextraction: Towards Faster and More Sensitive Microextraction(Elsevier Ltd., 2019) Ölçer, Yekta Arya; Tascon, Marcos; Eroğlu, Ahmet Emin; Boyacı, EzelThin film microextraction (TFME) is an analytical tool that has been proven to be suitable for integrated sampling and sample preparation of a wide variety of routine and on-site applications. Compared to the traditional microextraction techniques, the most important advantage of TFME is its enhanced sensitivity due to the relatively larger extractive phase spread over a larger surface area. The technique, in this way, facilitates fast extraction kinetics and high extractive capacity. Moreover, TFME offers high versatility for device development over classical SPME technologies due to the plethora of available extractive phases, coating methods and geometry options. The goal of this review is to provide a comprehensive summary of the contemporary advances in this exciting field covering novel extractive phases, technological and methodological developments, and relevant cutting-edge applications. Finally, a critical discussion of the future trends on TFME is also presented. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 103Citation - Scopus: 110Cold Sintering of Ceramics and Glasses: a Review(Elsevier Ltd., 2020) Ahmetoğlu, Çekdar Vakıf; Karacasulu, LeventTraditionally ceramic artifacts are processed at high temperatures (> 1000 degrees C) by classical sintering techniques such as solid state, liquid phase and pressure-assisted sintering. Recently, inspired from the geology, novel sintering approaches that allow the densification of ceramic components at relatively low temperatures <= 400 degrees C have been proposed. While initial efforts for such low temperature densification concept were developed in the mid-70s, the topic has become increasingly prominent in the last decade. Currently, these low temperature methods can be classified into four main groups: (i) hydrothermal reaction sintering (HRS), (ii) hydrothermal hot pressing (HHP), (iii) pressure-assisted densification techniques: room-temperature densification (RTD), cold sintering (CS), warm press (WP), and finally no-pressure assisted method called (iv) reactive hydrothermal liquid phase densification (rHLPD). Above named techniques are commonly assisted by an aqueous solution used as either reactant or transient liquid phase to assist densification. Starting from the background in traditional sintering processes, this review aims to explore in depth the existing literature about low temperature densification approaches along with their advantages & disadvantages, and probable application areas.Correction Citation - Scopus: 1Corrigendum To “hierarchically Porous Polymer Derived Ceramics: a Promising Platform for Multidrug Delivery Systems”[mater. Des. 140(supplement C) (2018) 37–44](Elsevier Ltd., 2018) Ahmetoğlu, Çekdar Vakıf; Zeydanlı, Damla; Özalp, Veli Cengiz; Borsa, Barı Ata; Soraru, Gian DomenicoThe authors regret to inform that The TMTVS ratios for samples were written incorrectly. The true weight ratios for PHMS/LDH/PDMS/TMTVS blends should be as follows: Bio1 = 1/0.055/0.25/0.055, and Bio2 = 1/0.055/1/0.055. The discussion in the study is not affected by this mistype and actually the previous paper [1] cited also in the paper as ref.#44 gives right values for the sample preparation. The authors would like to apologize for the inconvenience caused.Article Citation - WoS: 39Citation - Scopus: 43Tailored Electrospun Fibers From Waste Polystyrene for High Oil Adsorption(Elsevier Ltd., 2018) Isık, Tuğba; Demir, Mustafa MuammerRecent ship accidents that resulted catastrophic oil spills necessitate producing environmentally friendly, costeffective, and large-scale fabrication technology for oil-sorbent materials. Various material systems have been employed to fabricate sorbent materials; however, using fresh material components as adsorbent can lead to a secondary pollution. Therefore, recycling of plastics wastes for the fabrication of adsorbent material could be a wise approach to handle this environmental issue. In this study, foam-expanded polystyrene (f-PS), a commodity polymer used for insulation and packing materials, was electrospun from solution mixture of THF and DMF. Surface and interior porosity were achieved from individual fibers electrospun froma composition of DMF: THF (1:3) at 20-wt% of solid f-PS content. The resulting adsorbents exhibited a considerable hydrophobicity (WCA approximate to 120 degrees) and oleophilicity (CA approximate to 10 degrees), which can selectively adsorb both vegetable and engine oils from polluted waters. The porosity of the fibers has significant effect on the sorption capacity and separation efficiency up to 124 g/g and 99%, respectively. Thus, electrospun mats of the polystyrene wastes offer a promising adsorbent for the remediation of oily wastewaters. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V.Article Citation - WoS: 30Citation - Scopus: 32Perylene-Embedded Electrospun Ps Fibers for White Light Generation(Elsevier Ltd., 2019) Güner, Tuğrul; Aksoy, Erkan; Demir, Mustafa Muammer; Varlıklı, CananPerylene dyes have been employed in the fabrication of white light due to their superior photophysical properties and relatively easy synthetic methods. However, their molecular aggregation in solid state is one of the main handicaps since it causes deviation in their optical properties and quenches photoluminescence quantum yields (Phi(f)). Investigation of the photophysical properties of a green (PTE), a yellow (PDI) and a new red (DiPhAPDI) emitting perylene derivative in solution, drop-casted films, polystyrene (PS) fibers and PS fibers embedded in poly (dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS) showed that PS:dye fibers prevent aggregation to some extend and allows high Of of dyes. The Of values of PTE, PDI and DiPhAPDI were all higher than 93.0% in solution and 84.8%, 94.3% and 73.6%, respectively in PS:dye fibers. Embedding the fibers in PDMS improved the photostabilities of the dyes two folds compared to their solution phases. The prepared dye containing fibers were combined together into a single PDMS film and utilized as a frequency conversion layer on a blue LED. Fabricated samples were found to show high color rendering index (>= 90), adjustable CCT (7500 K-5000 K), and power efficiency values exceeding 2001m/W depending on the used fiber amount in mass.Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 5Effect of Chain Topology on Plasmonic Properties of Pressure Sensor Films Based on Poly(acrylamide) and Au Nanoparticles(Elsevier Ltd., 2019) Topçu, Gökhan; Demir, Mustafa MuammerAu nanoparticles have been recognized as a colorimetric sensing element in polymeric systems because clustering shifts the red color of individual particles into saturated blue due to distinct plasmonic variation. The mechanism of pressure sensing is based on the disintegration of the particle clusters into the individual particles in polymers upon application of pressure. Polymers are usually composed of linear chains that provide a viscoelastic medium for their diffusion. Changing topology of polymer chains from linear to crosslinked under fixed pressure makes a clear change in spectral features of the particles probably due to the hindrance of particle diffusion by the crosslinking points. Therefore, the working range of the sensor films can be increased to higher-pressure values. In this work, polyacrylamide/Au nanoparticle films were prepared by various concentrations of formaldehyde as a crosslinking agent from 0.5 to 5.0 wt %. The initial absorption signal gradually shifts from 690 to 545 nm for linear chains upon application of pressure while shifting goes down to 571 nm for crosslinked ones. The colorimetric change is also examined under humid environments. Contrary to the crosslinking process, humid environment facilitates the diffusion of particles since the chains swell with water molecules that provide a convenient medium for particle diffusion.Article Citation - WoS: 13Citation - Scopus: 16Electrocaloric Properties of Ba0. 8sr0. 2ti1-Xzrxo3 (0? X? 0.1) System: the Balance Between the Nature of the Phase Transition and Phase Coexistence(Elsevier Ltd., 2020) Şanlı, Keriman; Adem, UmutWe investigate the electrocaloric effect of Ba0.8Sr0.2Ti1-xZrxO3 (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.1) system by comparing the electrocaloric temperature change (ΔT) of different compositions belonging to the different regions of the phase diagram. We show that as the amount of Zr increases, electrocaloric temperature change initially decreases as the phase transition gets diffuse then increases again as the composition of the samples are located closer to the critical point where different ferroelectric phases coexist. Since the critical point is reached at relatively low Zr substitution levels (i.e. around x = 0.07), the phase transition doesn't get too diffuse and thefore the compositions between x = 0 and x = 0.10 (which contains higher Zr than the critical point composition) have comparable ΔT values. Electrocaloric efficiency of these compositions (x = 0.03, 0.05 and 0.07) is around 0.20 K mm/kV at 20 kV/cm. We discuss the results in terms of the balance between the nature of the phase transition and proximity to the critical point, based on the phase diagram.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Tuning Thermal Transport in Graphene Via Combinations of Molecular Antiresonances(Elsevier Ltd., 2018) Sevim, Koray; Sevinçli, HaldunWe propose a method to engineer the phonon thermal transport properties of low dimensional systems. The method relies on introducing a predetermined combination of molecular adsorbates, which give rise to antiresonances at frequencies specific to the molecular species. Despite their dissimilar transmission spectra, thermal resistances due to individual molecules remain almost the same for all species. On the other hand, thermal resistance due to combinations of different species are not additive and show large differences depending on the species. Using a toy model, the physics underlying the violation of resistance summation rule is investigated. It is demonstrated that equivalent resistance of two scatterers having the same resistances can be close to the sum of the constituents or ∼ 70% of it depending on the relative positions of the antiresonances. The relative positions of the antiresonances determine the net change in transmission, therefore the equivalent resistance. Since the entire spectrum is involved in phonon spectrum changes in different parts of the spectrum become important. Performing extensive first-principles based computations, we show that these distinctive attributes of phonon transport can be useful to tailor the thermal transport through low dimensional materials, especially for thermoelectric and thermal management applications.Article Citation - WoS: 21Citation - Scopus: 28Non-Iridescent Structural Colors From Uniform-Sized Sio2 Colloids(Elsevier Ltd., 2018) Topçu, Gökhan; Güner, Tuğrul; Demir, Mustafa MuammerStructural colors have recently attracted interest from diverse fields of research due to their ease of fabrication and eco-friendliness. These types of colors are, in principle, achieved by periodically arranged submicron-diameter colloidal particles. The interaction of light with a structure containing long-range ordered colloidal particles leads to coloration; this usually varies depending on the angle of observation (iridescence). However, the majority of the applications demand constant color that is independent of the viewing angle (non-iridescence). In this work, silica colloids were obtained using the Stöber method at different sizes from 150 to 300 nm in an alcoholic dispersion. The casting of the dispersion on a substrate leaves behind a photonic crystal showing a colorful iridescent film. However, centrifugation and redispersion of the SiO2 particles into fresh solvent may cause the formation of small, aggregated silica domains in the new dispersion. The casting of this dispersion allows for the development of photonic glass, presumably due to the accumulation of aggregates showing stable colloidal film independent of viewing angle. Moreover, depending on the size of the silica colloids, non-iridescent photonic glasses with various colors (violet, blue, green, and orange) are obtained.