Chapter 7. General Conclusions and Future Perspective
7.2. Pursuing Efforts and Future Perspective
7.2.3 Films with vertical mesoporosity
The alumina films with completely vertical mesoporosity shown in Chapter 3 are good candidates for applications such as catalyst, catalyst support, hard template for continuous films with other compositions, shown in Figure 7.5.
Figure 7.5. Schematic of (a) vertically aligned alumina thin film, (b) alumina films with catalyst supported on, (c) replica film.
I. Original Papers
1. Controlled Synthesis of Well-Ordered Mesoporous Titania Films with Large Mesopores Templated by Spherical PS-b-PEO Micelles
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry,2013, 2013, 3286-3291. (June 5, 2013) Xiangfen Jiang, Norihiro Suzuki, Bishnu Prasad Bastakoti, Wei-Jung Chen, Yu-Tzu Huang, and Yusuke Yamauchi
2. Preparation of Ordered Mesoporous Alumina-Doped Titania Films with High Thermal Stability and Their Application to High-Speed Passive-Matrix Electrochromic Display
Chemistry-A European Journal, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201300737. (June 28, 2013) Xiangfen Jiang, Bishnu Prasad Bastakoti, Wu Weng, Tetsuya Higuchi, Hamid Oveisi, Norihiro Suzuki, Wei-Jung Chen, Yu-Tzu Huang, and Yusuke Yamauchi
3. Synthesis of Continuous Mesoporous Alumina Films with Large-Sized Cage-Type Mesopores by Using Diblock Copolymers
Chemistry-An Asian Journal,2012, 7, 1713-1718. (March 2, 2012)
Xiangfen Jiang, Norihiro Suzuki, Bishnu Prasad Bastakoti, Kevin C.-W. Wu, and Yusuke Yamauchi
4. Vertically-oriented Conjugated Polymer Arrays in Mesoporous Alumina via Simple Drop-casting and Appearance of Anisotropic Photoluminescence
Chemical Communications,2012, 48, 549-551. (January 14, 2012)
Xiangfen Jiang, Atsushi Ishizumi, Norihiro Suzuki, Masanobu Naito, and Yusuke Yamauchi
5. Synthesis of Highly Ordered Mesoporous Alumina Thin Films and Their
Xiangfen Jiang,Hamid Oveisi, Yoshihiro Nemoto, Norihiro Suzuki, Kevin C.-W. Wu, and Yusuke Yamauchi
6. A Mesoporous Ȗ-Alumina Film with Vertical Mesoporosity: The Unusual Conversion from a Im-3mMesostructure to Vertically Oriented Ȗ-Alumina Nanowires Angewandte Chemie-International Edition,2011, 50, 7410-7413. (January 17, 2011) Hamid Oveisi#, Xiangfen Jiang#, Masataka Imura, Yoshihiro Nemoto, Yasuhiro Sakamoto, and Yusuke Yamauchi (#equally contributed)
7. Synthesis of Continuous Mesoporous Ga-Doped Titania Films with Anatase Crystallized Framework
Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2011, 11, 6926-6933. (January 31, 2011)
Hamid Oveisi#, Ali Beitollahi, Xiangfen Jiang#, Keisuke Sato, Yoshihiro Nemoto, Naoki Fukata, and Yusuke Yamauchi (#equally contributed)
8. Electrochemical Synthesis of Transparent, Amorphous C60-Rich Photoactive Low Doped Film with Interconnected Structure
Small,2013, 9, 2064-2068. (January 29, 2013)
Mao Li, Shinsuke Ishihara, Kei Ohkubo, Meiyong Liao, Qingmin Ji, Cheng Gu, Yuyu Pan, Xiangfen Jiang, Misaho Akada, Jonathan P. Hill, Takashi Nakanishi, Yuguang Ma, Yusuke Yamauchi, Shunichi Fukuzumi, and Katsuhiko Ariga
9. Formation of Secondary Moire Patterns for Characterization of Nanoporous Alumina Structures in Multiple Domains with Different Orientations
Nanoscale,2013, 5, 2285-2289. (February 7, 2013)
Qinghua Wang, Satoshi Kishimoto, Xiangfen Jiang, and Yusuke Yamauchi
Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan,2011, 84, 812-817. (June 25, 2011)
Norihiro Suzuki, Xiangfen Jiang, Logudurai Radhakrishnan, Kimiko Takai, Kotaro Shimasaki, Yu-Tzu Huang, Nobuyoshi Miyamoto, and Yusuke Yamauchi
11. New Trend on Mesoporous Films: Precise Controls of One-dimensional (1D) Mesochannels toward Innovative Applications
Journal of Materials Chemistry,2011, 21, 8934-8939. (April 26, 2011) Kevin C.-W. Wu, Xiangfen Jiang, and Yusuke Yamauchi
12. Improved Inactivation Effect of Bacteria: Fabrication of Mesoporous Anatase Films with Fine Ag Nanoparticles Prepared by Coaxial Vacuum Arc Deposition
Chemistry Letters,2011, 40, 420-422. (April 15, 2011)
Hamid Oveisi, Simin Rahighi, Xiangfen Jiang, Yoshiaki Agawa, Ali Beitollahi, Soichi Wakatsuki, and Yusuke Yamauchi
13. Cerium-doped Mesoporous TiO2 Thin Films: Controlled Crystallization of Anatase with Retention of Highly Ordered Mesostructure
Microporous and Mesoporous Materials,2011, 139, 38-44. (October 11, 2010)
Hamid Oveisi, Xiangfen Jiang, Yoshihiro Nemoto, Ali Beitollahi, and Yusuke Yamauchi
14. Mesoporous SiO2 and Nb2O5 Thin Films with Large Spherical Mesopores Through Self-Assembly of Diblock Copolymers: Unusual Conversion to Cuboidal Mesopores by Nb2O5Crystal Growth
Crystengcomm,2011, 13, 40-43. (September 28, 2010)
Norihiro Suzuki, Masataka Imura, Yoshihiro Nemoto, Xiangfen Jiang, and Yusuke Yamauchi
7KHUPDOO\ 6WDEOH 0HVRSRURXV Ȗ-Alumina Film with Vertical Mesoporosity:
Unusual Mesostructual Conversion from Im-3m to Vertically Oriented Ȗ-Alumina Nanowires (Poster Presentation)
JSPS A3 Foresight Seminar: Present Status and Future Prospects of Mesoporous Materials, Tokyo, Japan (September 3, 2010)
Xiangfen Jiang, Hamid Oveisi, and Yusuke Yamauchi
7KHUPDOO\6WDEOH0HVRSRURXVȖ-Alumina Film with Vertical Mesoporosity Derived from Pluronic F127-directed Im-3mStructure (Poster Presentation)
The 2ndNIMS-Waseda International Symposium, Tsukuba, Japan (December 1, 2010) Xiangfen Jiang, Hamid Oveisi, Yasuhiro Sakamoto, and Yusuke Yamauchi
3. Solvent Enginnering for Pore Size Control: from Ultra-Large Mesopores to Macropores (Poster Presentation)
The 3rd NIMS(MANA)-Waseda International Symposium, Tokyo, Japan(November 1, 2011)
Xiangfen Jiang, Norihiro Suzuki, and Yusuke Yamauchi
4. Controlled Synthesis of Ordered Mesoporous Titania Thin Film with Large-sized Mesopores (Poster Presentation)
The 4th NIMS(MANA)-Waseda International Symposium, Tsukuba, Japan (March 10, 2013)
Xiangfen Jiang, Bishnuprasad Bastakoti, Norihiro Suzuki, and Yusuke Yamauchi
1. Synthesis of Mesoporous Metal Oxides and Metals and Their Applications (Chapter 6)
Nanoporous Materials: Synthesis and Applications, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton(2013)
Hongjing Wang, Xiangfen Jiang, and Yusuke Yamauchi
Without any hesitation, I’d like to express my most heartfelt thanks and gratitude to my supervisor, Prof. Yusuke Yamauchi, who has supported me throughout my graduate career. He taught me excellent academic literacy as well as extraordinary enthusiasm for work. I attribute the level of my Ph.D. degree to his encouragement, guidance and help throughout my three-year graduate study; all my work and this dissertation would not have been completed without his support.
Special grateful thanks are due to Profs. Kazuyuki Kuroda, Yoshio Bando, Toyohiro Chikyow, Kiyoshi Shimamura, and Kevin Chia-Wen Wu for their deep comments, profound advices and generous supporting on reviewing my dissertation and on my defense. I greatly appreciate their helpful advices, comments and revision on this dissertation. The academic advices discussions on my dissertation and careful instruction on experimental technologies from Dr. Norihiro Suzuki are also gratefully appreciated.
I am greatly penetrated with heartfelt gratitude for the enthusiastic help and priceless advices from Prof. Kevin C.-W. Wu. I also wish to deeply appreciate my colleagues for their nice help and gentle valuable suggestions, including but not limited to Drs.
Ming Hu, Dr. Bishnu Prasad Bastakoti, Dr. Akemi Tateno, Dr. Hongjing Wang, Dr.
Liang Wang, Ms. Kimiko Takai, Dr. Cuiling Li, Dr. Hamed Ataee-Esfahani, Dr.
Hamid Oveisi, Mr. Mohamed B. Zakaria, Mr. Nagy L. Kamal, Mr. Yuichiro Kamachi, and Miss. Yunqi Li. I also want to thank the collaborators, Dr. Ali Beitollahi, Dr.
Atsushi Ishizumi, Dr. Naoki Fukata, Dr. Qingmin Ji, Dr. Wei-Jung Chen, Dr. Wu Weng, Dr. Yasuhiro Sakamoto, Dr. Yoshihiro Nemoto, Dr. Keisuke Sato, Dr. Mao Li, Dr. Masataka Imura, and Dr. Tetsuya Higuchi. I want to thank my friends for their kindly support again involving Dr. Ming Hu, Dr. Peng Chen, Miss. Qin Zhang etc.
Also, I wish to greatly appreciate Dr. Taketoshi Fujita for the support of my experiments.