Nanotech Group
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The focus of our research is to achieve fundamental understanding of the behaviour of fluids under nanometre scale confinement and to translate this knowledge to applications in water treatment and desalination, nanomaterials synthesis, energy efficiency and environmental remediation. |
- Student presents at ChemonTubes Conference in France
- PhD Students presents at the 28th Australian Colloid and Surface Science Student Conference, Newcastle, Australia
- Contact Angle setup installed
- EPSRC Delivery Fund Award
- Paper Published in Nanoscale
- Paper published in Microfludics and Nanofludics
- Royal Society Grant Awarded
- PhD Student wins poster prize at 2011 Great Western CO2 Meeting
- PhD Student gives invited lecture at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
- Paper published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Book Sections
Mattia, D., 2010. Wetting phenomena inside carbon nanotubes. In: Starov, V. M., ed. Nanoscience: Colloidal and Interfacial Aspects. CRC Press.
Shearer, C., Velleman, L., Acosta, F., Ellis, A., Voelcker, N., Mattia, D. and Shapter, J., 2010. Water transport through nanoporous materials: Porous silicon and single walled carbon nanotubes. In: ICONN 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 196-199.
Articles
Mattia, D. and Calabrò, F., 2012. Forthcoming. Explaining high flow rate of water in carbon nanotubes via solid-liquid molecular interactions. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
Lee, K. P., Leese, H. and Mattia, D., 2012. Water flow enhancement in hydrophilic nanochannels. Nanoscale, 4 (8), pp. 2621-2627.
Bekou, S. and Mattia, D., 2011. Wetting of nanotubes. Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science, 16 (4), pp. 259-265.
Oh, J. O., Kimb, G., Mattia, D. and Noh, H., 2011. A novel technique for fabrication of micro- and nanofluidic device with embedded single carbon nanotube. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 154 (1), pp. 67-72.
Lee, K. P., Arnot, T. C. and Mattia, D., 2011. A review of reverse osmosis membrane materials for desalination-Development to date and future potential. Journal of Membrane Science, 370 (1-2), pp. 1-22.
Pilkington, G. A., Thormann, E., Claesson, P. M., Fuge, G. M., Fox, O. J. L., Ashfold, M. N. R., Leese, H., Mattia, D. and Briscoe, W. H., 2011. Amontonian frictional behaviour of nanostructured surfaces. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13 (20), pp. 9318-9326.
Shah, H. J., Fontecchio, A. K., Mattia, D. and Gogotsi, Y., 2008. Field controlled nematic-to-isotropic phase transition in liquid crystal-carbon nanotube composites. Journal of Applied Physics, 103 (6), 064314/1-064314/5.
Mattia, D. and Gogotsi, Y., 2008. Review: Static and dynamic behavior of liquids inside carbon nanotubes. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 5 (3), pp. 289-305.
Behler, K., Havel, M., Mattia, D. and Gogotsi, Y., 2008. Self-assembled Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube Coatings In Nanotubes and Related Nanostructures. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 1057E, pp. 1057-1120.
Yarin, A. L., Megaridis, C. M., Mattia, D. and Gogotsi, Y., 2008. Smoothing of nanoscale roughness based on the Kelvin effect. Nanotechnology, 19 (36), 365702.
Sinha, S., Pia Rossi, M., Mattia, D., Gogotsi, Y. and Bau, H. H., 2007. Induction and measurement of minute flow rates through nanopipes. Physics of Fluids, 19 (1), 013603/1-013603/8.
Freedman, J. R., Mattia, D., Korneva, G., Gogotsi, Y., Friedman, G. and Fontecchio, A. K., 2007. Magnetically assembled carbon nanotube tipped pipettes. Applied Physics Letters, 90 (10), 103108/1-103108/3.
Mattia, D., Korneva, G., Sabur, A., Friedman, G. and Gogotsi, Y., 2007. Multifunctional Nanotubes with Nanoparticles Embedded in their Walls. Nanotechnology, 18, p. 155305.
Mattia, D., Korneva, G., Friedman, G. and Gogotsi, Y., 2007. Multifunctional Nanotubes with Particles Embedded in their Walls. Abstracts, 39th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Collegeville, PA, United States, May 16-18
Legum, B., Cooper, R., Mattia, D., Gogotsi, Y. and Layton Bradley, E., 2007. The effect of deformation on room temperature Coulomb blockade using conductive carbon nanotubes. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE), 2007, pp. 4206-10.
Mattia, D., Rossi, M. P., Kim, B. M., Korneva, G., Bau, H. H. and Gogotsi, Y., 2006. Effect of Graphitization on the Wettability and Electrical Conductivity of CVD-Carbon Nanotubes and Films. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110 (20), pp. 9850-9855.
Korneva, G., Mattia, D., Gogotsi, Y., Halverson, D., Friedman, G., Yee, H. and Bradley, J.-C., 2006. Filling carbon nanopipes with functional nanoparticles. Preprints of Symposia - American Chemical Society, Division of Fuel Chemistry, 51 (1), pp. 36-37.
Korneva, G., Mattia, D., Gogotsi, Y. and Bradley, J. C., 2006. Filling carbon nanopipes with functionalized nanoparticles. Abstracts of Papers, 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, United States, March 26-30, 2006
Shah, H. J., Fontecchio, A. K., Rossi, M. P., Mattia, D. and Gogotsi, Y., 2006. Imaging of liquid crystals confined in carbon nanopipes. Applied Physics Letters, 89 (4), 043123/1-043123/3.
Mattia, D. and Gogotsi, Y., 2006. Surface functionalization to control the wetting behavior of nanostructured carbons. Preprint Papers - American Chemical Society, Division of Fuel Chemistry, 51 (1), pp. 3-4.
Mattia, D., Bau, H. H. and Gogotsi, Y., 2006. Wetting of CVD Carbon Films by Polar and Nonpolar Liquids and Implications for Carbon Nanopipes. Langmuir, 22 (4), pp. 1789-1794.
Mattia, D., Desmaison-Brut, M., Dimovski, S., Gogotsi, Y. and Desmaison, J., 2005. Oxidation behaviour of an aluminium nitride-hafnium diboride ceramic composite. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 25 (10), pp. 1789-1796.
Mattia, D., Desmaison-Brut, M., Tetard, D. and Desmaison, J., 2005. Wetting of HIP AlN-TiB2 ceramic composites by liquid metals and alloys. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 25 (10), pp. 1797-1803.
Conference or Workshop Items
Mattia, D., Rossi, M. P., Ye, H. and Gogotsi, Y., 2007. In situ Fluid Studies in Carbon Nanotubes with Diameters Ranging from 1 to 500 nm. In: 5th IASME/WSEAS International Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics – 2007, Athens,Greece.
The Nanofluidics Transport Laboratory is located in building 9W, room 4.01. The laboratory is equipped with:
5 stations for the fabrication of flat and tubular alumina nanoporous templates:
2 tubular furnaces (up to 1200 °C) for chemical vapor depositon of carbon nanotubes
and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons
A high temperature, high vacuum (2000 °C, <10-7 mbar) furnace for nanotube graphitization
Contact Angle Setup
Lab photo credits: philmillsphotography
