This news is as fresh as it gets :)
Our paper "Rh-induced Support Transformation Phenomena in Titanate Nanowire and Nanotube Catalysts" by J. Kiss et al. was accepted for publication in Langmuir earlier today. We publish here some interesting findings on the difference between the thermal behavior of Rh nanoparticle decorated titanate nanotubes and nanowires. DOI will follow as soon as available.

It's been a while since I posted here, time to get back on the update track now. I was very busy at the University these days: oral exams, project work presentations and lots-lots-lots of time consuming meetings. The main scientific activity was work on new and revised manuscripts. I hope to report good news about this soon, however, let us wait for the official decisions and not count our chickens before they are hatched.
February is going to be busy with loads of deadlines to be met. I'll keep you all informed here of course :)

Our paper "Effects of carbon nanotube functionalization on the agglomeration and sintering of supported Pd nanoparticles" by Robert Puskás et al. was accepted for publication in Adsorption today. Robert has done a nice thorough investigation on the influence of nitric acid treatment of MWCNTs on the palladium nanoparticle size.  The average particle diameter calculated from TEM image analysis was found to be inversely proportional with the duration of the oxidation in nitric acid. Crystallite sizes determined from XRD patterns confirmed this general tendency. These results are expected be useful in improving the reproducibility of carbon nanotube based heterogeneous catalysts. Moreover, the findings will also help us in designing the pore wall chemistry of our porous nano composite materials.

 

The section "Our group in the news" has been updated with two recent events: a presentation at the Open Faculty Day and an interview published at the homepage of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (in Hungarian only). I welcome this publicity and consider it a good sign for 2013 – now let us get back to work!