The kinetics of interstitial hydrogen are of great interest and importance for metal-hydride storage, purification, fusion and fission reactor technology, material failure processes, optical sensors for hydrogen gas and many other technologies. In particular nano-sized materials motivate fascinating applications and scientific questions. If hydrogen is absorbed in vanadium it alters the band structure around the Fermi energy. These modifications of the band structurelead to a change in the absorptance of vanadium which are in first order approximation proportional to the concentration. We present a methodto quantify chemical diffusion of hydrogen in nano-sized materials.The induced changes in the absorptance of vanadium hydride (VHx) thin-films are observed visually and in real-time as a function of position.Concentration profiles and their evolution in time, during chemicaldiffusion, were measured down to a hydrogen content corresponding tojust a few effective monolayers, randomly distributed within VHx. For concentrations reached via phase transitions distinct diffusional behavior was found, where a diffusion-front, a strong concentration gradient, migrates in the direction of the diffusive hydrogen flux. The results show that decreased size strongly influences the energy landscape and reveal different rate limiting steps for absorption and desorption.

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is in comparison with other chromatographic techniques, CE has several advantages such as high resolving power, small sample volume requirement, minimal buffer consumption and high sample throughtput. As a detection technique, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS) provides the advantages of low detection limit, multielement detection, and element- and isotope-specific detection capabilities. Therefore, the use of CE as a high resolution separation technique with ICP-MS as a sensitive element specific detector is of growing interest for analytical research. Four studies in our research are described below, respectively. A preliminary study of a modified microconcentric nebulizer (CEI-100, CETAC) as the sample introduction device of capillary electrophoresis inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (CE-ICP-MS) for the determination of monophosphate nucleotides is described. The monophosphate nucleotides studied include adenosine 5¡¦-monophosphate (AMP), guanosine 5¡¦-monophosphate (GMP), uridine 5¡¦-monophosphate (UMP) and inosine 5¡¦-monophosphate (IMP). The species studied were well separated using a 70 cm length ¡Ñ 75 £gm id fused silica capillary while the applied voltage was set at -22 kV and a 20 mmol/L ammonium citrate/citric acid buffer (pH 4.0) containing 0.1% m/v cationic polymer (hexadimethrine bromide, Polybrene) was used as the electrophoretic buffer. The electroosmotic flow was reversed by flushing the fused silica capillary with 0.2% m/v Polybrene to accelerate separation. The detection limit of various species studied was in the range of 0.036~0.054 £gg P/mL, which corresponded to the absolute detection limit of 1.1~1.6 pg P based on the injection volume of 30 nl. We determined the concentrations of nucleotides in two IG-enriched monosodium glutamates purchased from the local market. The recovery was in the range of 100~112% for various species, and the concentrations of IMP and GMP in these samples were in the range of 0.15¡V0.18% m/m. Capillary electrophoresis dynamic reaction cellTM inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (CE-DRC-ICP-MS) for the determination of sulfur-containing amino acids is described. The sulfur-containing amino acids studied include L-cysteine, L-cystine, DL-homocystine and L-methionine. The species studied were well separated using a 70 cm length ¡Ñ 75 £gm i.d. fused silica capillary while the applied voltage was set at +22 kV and a 10 mmol/L disodium tetraborate buffer (pH 9.8) containing 0.1 mmol/L EDTA and 0.5 mmol/L Triton X-100 was used as the electrophoretic buffer. The sulfur-selective electropherogram was determined at m/z 48 as 32S16O+ by using its reaction with O2 in the reaction cell. The method avoided the effect of polyatomic isobaric interferences at m/z 32 caused by 16O16O+ and 14N18O+ on 32S+ by detecting 32S+ as the oxide ion 32S16O+ at m/z 48, which is less interfered. The detection limit of various species studied was in the range of 0.047~0.058 £gg S/mL, which corresponded to the absolute detection limit of 1.3~1.6 pg S based on the injection volume of 27 nl. We determined the concentrations of selected sulfur-containing amino acids in urine and nutritive complement samples. The recovery was in the range of 92~128% for various species. Capillary electrophoresis-dynamic reaction cell inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (CE-DRC-ICP-MS) for the speciation of iron (III/II), vanadium (V/IV) and chromium (VI/III) is described. Two different CE migration modes were employed for separating the six metal ions using pre-capillary complexation. One is counter-electroosmotic mode in which iron (III/II) and vanadium (V/IV) ions were well separated using a 60 cm ¡Ñ 75 £gm i.d. fused silica capillary. The voltage was set at +22 kV and a 15 mmol/L tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane (Tris) buffer (pH 8.75) containing 0.5 mmol/L ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and 0.5 mmol/L ortho-phenanthroline (phen) was used as the electrophoretic buffer. The other is co-electroosmotic mode in which chromium (VI/III) ions were well separated while the applied voltage was set at −22 kV and a 10 mmol/L ammonium citrate buffer (pH 7.7) containing 0.5 mmol/L diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) and 0.01% polybrene was used as the electrophoretic buffer. The mass spectra were measured at m/z 51, 52 and 56 for V, Cr and Fe, respectively. The interfering polyatomic ions of 35Cl16O+, 40Ar12C+ and 40Ar16O+ on 51V+, 52Cr+ and 56Fe+ determination were reduced in intensity significantly by using NH3 as the reaction cell gas in the DRC. The detection limits were in the range of 0.1~0.5, 0.4~1.3 and 1.2~1.7 £gg/L for V, Cr and Fe, respectively. Applications of the method for the speciation of V, Cr and Fe in wastewater were demonstrated. The recoveries were in the range of 92~120% for various species. A capillary electrophoresis-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometric (CE-ICPMS) method for the speciation of six arsenic compounds, namely arsenite [As(III)], arsenate [As(V)], monomethyl arsonic acid, dimethylarsinic acid, arsenobetaine and arsenocholine is described. The separation has been achieved on a 70 cm length ¡Ñ 75 £gm ID fused-silica capillary. The electrophoretic buffer used was 15 mmol/L Tris (pH 9.0) containing 15 mmol/L sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), while the applied voltage was set at +22 kV. The arsenic species in biological tissues were extracted into 80% v/v methanol-water mixture, put in a closed centrifuge tube and kept in a water bath, using microwaves at 80¢J for 3 min. The extraction efficiencies of individual arsenic species added to the sample at 0.5 mg As/g level were between 96% and 107%, except for As(III), for which it was 89% and 77% for oyster and fish samples, respectively. The detection limits of the species studied were in the range 0.3~0.5 £gg As/L. The procedure has been applied for the speciation analysis of two reference materials, namely dogfish muscle tissue (NRCC DORM-2) and oyster tissue (NIST SRM 1566a), and two real-world samples.

Infrared detector technologies have been developing each day. Thermal detectors take great attention in commercial applications due to their low power consumption and low costs. The active material selection and the deposition of the material are highly important performance effective factors for microbolometer detector applications. In that sense, developing vanadium oxide (VOx) microbolometer active material by sol-gel method might be feasible approach to achieve good performance microbolometer detectors. In this study, vanadium oxide thin films are prepared by sol-gel method is deposited on silicon or silicon nitride wafers as active material by spin coating. The films are annealed under different hydrogen concentration of H2/N2 environments at 410

<p>In the present work, the thermodynamic activities of chromium and vanadium oxide in CaO-SiO2-MgO-Al2O3 slags were measured using gas-slag equilibration technique. The slag was equilibrated with a gas mixture of CO, CO2 and Ar gases enabling well-defined oxygen partial pressures in the gas mixture (PO2=10-3,10-4,10-5 Pa) at temperatures 1803, 1823K, 1873, 1923 K. The slags were kept in Pt crucibles during the equilibration and the duration of which was 20 h. From a knowledge of the thermodynamic activity of chromium and vanadium in Cr or V in Pt alloy, obtained from literature, and the oxygen partial pressure in the gas stream calculated by Thermo Calc software, the thermodynamic activity of chromium, vanadium oxide in the slags could be observed.An assessment of the experimental studies in earlier works reveal that, the activities of chromium at low chromium contents and vanadium in their respective alloys in platinum exhibits a strong negative deviation from ideality, the logarithms of activity coefficient of these elements were found to increase with increasing mole fractions of these metals in the Pt-alloys.Regarding the slag phase, all the chromium in the slags was assumed to be present in the divalent state in view of the low Cr contents and the low oxygen potentials employed in the present studies. Analogously, vanadium in the slag was assumed to be in the trivalent state in view of the low vanadium contents in the slag and the low oxygen partial pressure in the gas phase. Activity of chromium oxide, CrO decreases with increasing temperature and decreasing content of chromium oxide in slag and oxygen partial pressure in the gas phase. Activity of vanadium oxide, VO1.5 in slag phase shows a negative deviation from ideality. Activity coefficient of vanadium oxide shows a decrease with basicity of slag and the “break point” occurs at about slag basicity of 1 under the oxygen partial pressure of 10-3 Pa and temperature of 1873 K.A relationship for estimating the actual content of chromium, vanadium in slag as a function of activities of chromium or vanadium, temperature, oxygen partial pressure and slag basicity were developed from the present results, the agreement between the estimated and experimental values is satisfactory, especially at lower oxygen partial pressure.</p>

Les bronzes mixtes de forume MxV2-yTyO5 étudiés par J. Darriet (1 à 4) constituent une extension importante des bronzes oxygénés de vanadium MxV2O5 ou MxV5+2-xV4+xO5 ; le bronze mixte correspond alors à la substitution couplée : ...

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With its long cycle life and scalable design, the vanadium redox flow battery (VRB) is a promising technology for grid energy storage. However, high materials costs have impeded its commercialization. An essential but costly component of the VRB is the ion-exchange membrane. The ideal VRB membrane provides a highly conductive path for protons, prevents crossover of reactive species, and is tolerant of the acidic and oxidizing chemical environment of the cell. In order to study membrane performance and optimize cell design, mathematical models of the separator membrane have been developed. Where previous VRB membrane models considered minimal details of membrane transport, generally focusing on conductivity or self-discharge at zero current, the model presented here considers coupled interactions between each of the major species by way of rigorous material balances and concentrated solution theory. The model describes uptake and transport of sulfuric acid, water, and vanadium ions in Nafion membranes, focusing on operation at high current density. Governing equations for membrane transport are solved in finite difference form using the Newton-Raphson method. Model capabilities were explored, leading to predictions of Ohmic losses, vanadium crossover, and electro-osmotic drag. Experimental methods were presented for validating the model and for further improving estimates of uptake parameters and transport coefficients. / text

Το ηλεκτροπαραγωγικό δυναμικό της ΔΕΗ περιλαμβάνει άνω των 40 πετρελαϊκών σταθμών συνολικής ισχύος 2100MW και οι μεγαλύτεροι είναι του διασυνδεδεμένου συστήματος και λειτουργούν στο Λαύριο και το Αλιβέρι. Οι υπόλοιποι λειτουργούν στο αυτόνομο σύστημα των νησιών του Αιγαίου και Κρήτης. Κατά τους καθαρισμούς των προθερμαντών αέρος και των δεξαμενών μαζούτ των μονάδων αυτών παράγονται σήμερα άνω των 500t στερεών καταλοίπων ετησίως με αυξητική τάση. Τα κατάλοιπα αυτά χαρακτηρίζονται σύμφωνα με την Ευρωπαϊκή οδηγία ως επικίνδυνα. Σύμφωνα με τους κανονισμούς της Ε.Ε. είναι υποχρεωτική η αδρανοποίησή τους και η διασφάλιση της ασφαλούς τους απόθεσης. Στα πλαίσια της παρούσας διατριβής πραγματοποιήθηκε πλήρης χαρακτηρισμός προεπεξεργασμένων και μη στερεών καταλοίπων. Προσδιορίστηκε ότι τα κατάλοιπα αυτά περιέχουν 1.6-13.4%V και 0.8-5.5%Ni, δηλαδή αποτελούν πολύ πλουσιότερες πρώτες ύλες από τα αντίστοιχα κοιτάσματα μεταλλευμάτων βαναδίου και νικελίου. Για παράδειγμα τα Ελληνικά νικελιούχα σιδηρομεταλλεύματα που καμινεύονται στη Λάρυμνα έχουν περιεκτικότητα μόλις 0.93-1.02% σε νικέλιο. Δεν ανιχνεύθηκε οργανικό φορτίο στα κατάλοιπα και το βανάδιο εντοπίστηκε σ’ αυτά στη μορφή VO2. Βασικός στόχος της διατριβής ήταν η ανάπτυξη μεθόδου, που να συνδυάζει την αδρανοποίηση των καταλοίπων με την ανάκτηση των περιεχόμενων μετάλλων. Η μέθοδος περιλαμβάνει και στάδιο πυροσυσσωμάτωσης των ανεπεξέργαστων καταλοίπων, στοχεύοντας στη συσσωμάτωση και εμπλουτισμό τους στα πολύτιμα κραματικά μέταλλα. Εξασφαλίζεται παράλληλη αποθείωση, απανθράκωση και ξήρανσή τους. Τα συσσωματώματα περιέχουν μέχρι και 6.0% Ni και 14.7% V, δηλαδή επιτυγχάνεται ο εμπλουτισμός τους κατά 8% σε Ni και κατά 10% σε V, με ταυτόχρονη απομάκρυνση θείου και άνθρακα σε ποσοστά 73 και 85% αντίστοιχα. Η πυροσυσσωμάτωση λειτουργεί ως αυτογενής διεργασία με την πλήρη ενεργειακή εκμετάλλευση της χημικής ενέργειας του άνθρακα και του θείου. Αποτελεί δε ταυτόχρονα το πρώτο βήμα για την ανάκτηση των περιεχόμενων μετάλλων. Συνακόλουθα, η εξασφάλιση ασφαλούς απόθεσης των αδρανοποιημένων και iii εμπλουτισμένων στα πολύτιμα μέταλλα καταλοίπων δίνει τη δυνατότητα δημιουργίας σοβαρού αποθέματος σωρεύοντας υλικό από το εσωτερικό αλλά και εισάγοντας παρόμοιου τύπου κατάλοιπα από ομοειδή εργοστάσια του εξωτερικού. Έτσι μια μεταλλουργική μονάδα ανάκτησης των μετάλλων θα μπορεί να εξασφαλίζει τη λειτουργία της με οικονομικότητα. Η εκτίμηση των επιπτώσεων της υπαίθριας απόθεσης των μελετούμενων στερεών αποβλήτων και των πυροσυσσωματωμάτων αποτελεί αδήριτο ανάγκη. Προς τούτο πραγματοποιήθηκε προσομοίωση της διεργασίας της έκπλυσής τους από τα όμβρια ύδατα. Το μοντέλο με την υπόθεση του μη αντιδρώντος πυρήνα, φαίνεται να περιγράφει με επαρκή ακρίβεια τη διεργασία. Οι σταθερές και ο πλήρης μηχανισμός του μοντέλου προσδιορίσθηκαν και επιβεβαιώθηκαν πειραματικά. Κατά την έναρξη της διεργασίας φαίνεται ότι η χημική αντίδραση αποτελεί το ρυθμορυθμιστικό βήμα για τη μεταφορά των μετάλλων στην υγρή φάση. Με την πρόοδό της έκπλυσης ελέγχεται από φαινόμενα διάχυσης. Την πρακτική εφαρμογή των μοντέλων που καταστρώθηκαν αποτέλεσε η πρόβλεψη των μακροχρόνιων επιπτώσεων της υπαίθριας απόθεσης των ανεπεξέργαστων και πυροσυσσωματωμένων καταλοίπων. Φάνηκε ότι απαιτείται μεγάλο χρονικό διάστημα, κατ’ ελάχιστο 10 έτη για την μείωση των συγκεντρώσεων των μετάλλων σε επιτρεπτά επίπεδα στον υδροφόρο ορίζοντα. Το τελευταίο στάδιο της προτεινόμενης μεθόδου περιλαμβάνει την αναγωγική τήξη των καταλοίπων. Πραγματοποιήθηκε σειρά πειραματικών χυτηρίων σε χωνευτήριο γραφίτη σε κάμινο Tammann. Μελετήθηκε η διεργασία αναγωγής των μεταλλοξειδίων καθώς και προσδιορίσθηκε η θερμοδυναμική ισορροπία των ετερογενών δράσεων μεταξύ ρευστής σκωρίας και μετάλλου σε θερμοκρασίες 1375-1600οC. Προσδιορίσθηκαν πειραματικά οι θερμοδυναμικές συναρτήσεις ισορροπίας για τα μεταλλοξείδια του βαναδίου, σιδήρου και νικελίου. Τα πειραματικά χυτήρια έδωσαν τελικούς βαθμούς ανάκτησης μετάλλων 85-98% για το Ni και 78-95% για το V, με παράλληλη παραγωγή αδρανοποιημένης σκωρίας κατάλληλης για απόθεση ή άλλες χρήσεις. Οι συνθήκες οι οποίες μεγιστοποιούν τις ανακτήσεις των Ni και V όπως έδειξαν οι πειραματικές δοκιμές είναι:  υψηλές θερμοκρασίες  χρήση χωνευτηρίου γραφίτη iv  προσθήκη σιδηροπυριτίου ως αναγωγικού μέσου Αντίθετα από την επικρατούσα άποψη, αποδείχθηκε, ότι επιτυγχάνονται υψηλοί βαθμοί ανάκτησης σε υψηλά επίπεδα βασικότητας CaO/SiO2>2, κάτι, που εξασφαλίζει την πυρίμαχη επένδυση της καμίνου και την περαιτέρω χρήση της παραγόμενης σκωρίας. Εναλλακτικά, μελετήθηκε και η απευθείας αναγωγική τήξη των φυσικοχημικά προεπεξεργασμένων καταλοίπων. Σημαντικό είναι το εύρημα, ότι η προσθήκη βωξίτη βοημιτικού τύπου σε μικρά ποσοστά προσθηκών μέχρι 10% δρα ενισχυτικά στις ανακτήσεις του νικελίου και του βαναδίου με βαθμούς ανάκτησης άνω του 98%. Διερευνήθηκαν επίσης η κινητική της αναγωγής των οξειδίων του σιδήρου και του βαναδίου από την σκωρία στο λουτρό σιδήρου και προσδιορίστηκαν οι αντίστοιχες σταθερές και τα ρυθμορυθμιστικά βήματα. Συνολικά, προτείνεται μια ολοκληρωμένη μέθοδος ανακύκλωσης των στερεών καταλοίπων πετρελαϊκών σταθμών παραγωγής ενέργειας σε συνδυασμό με υψηλότατους βαθμούς ανάκτησης των περιεχόμενων σε αυτά πολύτιμων κραματικών στοιχείων νικελίου και βαναδίου αποφεύγοντας την εξουδετέρωσή τους με ακριβές μεθόδους αδρανοποίησης. Με αυτόν τον τρόπο εξασφαλίζεται η εξουδετέρωση των επικίνδυνων αυτών υλικών με σημαντικά οικονομικά οφέλη από την ανάκτηση των μετάλλων. / The power generating installations of P.P.C. include m ore than 40 oil-fired power stations of about 2100MW total capacity. The mos t important stations are those of the interconnected system that ope rate in L avrio and Aliv e ri. The rest operate in the autonom ous system of the A eg e an islands and Cre te . M ore than 500t of solid w aste s are produce d annually during the w ashing proce sses of the air pre -he aters and the crude oil tanks of the aforementioned units w ith increasing te nden cy. These residue s are classifie d as hazardous according to the Europe an directive s. The ir neu tralizati on and safe de position is c om pulsory according to the E.U. re gulations. In the current the sis, complete characte rization of pretre ate d and untre ated re sidues was carried out. It w as found that the re sidues exa mined contained 1.6-13.4 %V and 0.8-5.5%Ni, being the refore a conside rably richer raw material than the vanadium and nickel ore deposits. For instance, the H elle nic nicke lferrous ore s, that are smelted in L arym na contain only 0.93-1.02% Ni. No organic compounds w ere de te cte d in the re sidues and the presence of vanadium was identified as VO 2. The fundam ental task of the thesis w as the de ve lopment of a method that com bine s the neutralization of the re sidue s with the recovery of the me tals containe d. The propose d me thod includes also a sinte ring stage of the untre ated residues, aiming at their agg lom e ration and e nrichm e nt in the pre cious alloying metals. The re sidues de sulphurization, de carburization and drying is achieved sim ultaneously. The sinter products contain up to 6.0% Ni and 14.7 % V, sugge sting that en richment of 8% in N i and 10 % in V w as achiev ed, with simultaneous loss of sulphur and carbon in the rates of 73 and 85% respe ctive ly. S inte ring, acts as an indigen ous process with total exploitati on of the che mical en e rgy of carbon and sulphur. It also rep re sents the first ste p for the re covery of the m etals containe d in the residues. Mo reov e r, provided the safe depo sition of the neutralize d and en riche d in valuable m e tals re sidue s, it is possible to ge ne rate a significant stock by piling m aterial from the indige nous sou rce s and imports of such residues. Thus a me tallurgical unit of m e tals re covery could operate at profit. The e valuation of the effects of the ground disposal of the investigate d solid re sidue s and sinte r produ cts is a mus t. The simulation of their le aching by rainfall wa s thus vii conducted. The hypothesis of the unreacted core mode l see ms to describe the proce ss ade que ntl y. The mode l constants and its complete m e chanism we re de te rmined and confirm ed expe rimentall y. Initially chem ical re action se ems to be the rate-de te rmining ste p for the transfe r of me tals in the liquid phase. W ith the e lution prog re ss the me chanism is controlled by diffusion phenomen a. The prediction of the long -te rm effects of the ground de position of the untre ate d and sinte red residue s w as att empted by applying the sugge sted models . It was shown that substantia l amount of time, 10 ye ars minim um, is ne e de d for the drop of the m e tals conce ntrations in the leachate to allowa ble lev e ls. The final stage of the proposed method contains the red uction smelting of the re sidues. A serie s of tests w as conducted in graphite crucibles in Tam mann furnace. The metal oxides re duction proce ss w as investi gated and the the rmod ynamic equilibrium of the hete rogen e ous actions betw e en liquid slag and me tal w as de te rmined in tempe ratures ranging from 1375 to 1600 oC. The therm od ynam ic equilibria functions conce rning the nickel, vanadium and iron oxides w ere exper ime ntally dete rmined. The e xpe rimental test heats yie lded final me tals recove ry rates of 85-98% for Ni and 78-95% for V , with simultaneous production of ne utralized slag suitable for deposition or othe r usage . The conditions that ma ximize the Ni and V re cove ries according to the expe rime ntal findi ngs we re:  the high tempe ratures  the use of graphite crucible  the Fe S i addi tions as re ductant In contrast to the dominating opinion, it w as shown that high rec ove ry rate s w e re achieved in high basicity rates of CaO/Si O 2>2, ensuring the re fractory lining of the furnace and the furthe r use of the produced slag. Alternatively, the direct re duction smelting of the physicochemic ally pretre ated re sidues was inve stigated. The finding that the small a dditions up to 10 % of boe hm itic type of bauxite improve the rec ove ries of nickel and in rate s highe r than 98% is ve ry important. The kinetics of the redu ction of iron and vanadium oxide s from the slag to the iron bath w ere also inve sti gate d and the corresponding constants and rate de te rmining ste ps we re de te rmined. viii A holisti c method of recycling the solid residue s of the oil-fire d stati ons is propose d The propose d me thod, in addition to high re cove ry rate s of the valuable alloying eleme nts containe d (nickel and vanadium) avoids the re sidue s treatment with expe nsive neutralization me thods. Mo reov e r, the ne utralization of these hazardous ma terials is achiev ed w ith substantial financial profit from the me tals re cove ry at the same time.

<p>The fascinating optical properties of metallic nanostructures, dominated by collective oscillations of free electrons known as plasmons, open new opportunities for the development of devices fabrication based on noble metal nanoparticle composite materials. This thesis demonstrates a low-cost and versatile technique to produce stimuli-responsive ultrafast plasmonic nanostructures with reversible tunable optical properties. Albeit challenging, further control using thermal external stimuli to tune the local environment of gold nanoparticles embedded in VO2 host matrix would be ideal for the design of responsive functional nanocomposites. We prepared Au-VO2 nanocomposite thin films by the inverted cylindrical reactive magnetron sputtering (ICMS) known as hollow cathode magnetron sputtering for the first time and report the reversible tuning of surface plasmon resonance of Au nanoparticles by only adjusting the external temperature stimuli. The structural, morphological, interfacial analysis and optical properties of the optimized nanostructures have been studied. ICMS has been attracting much attention for its enclosed geometry and its ability to deposit on large area, uniform coating of smart nanocomposites at high deposition rate. Before achieving the aforementioned goals, a systematic study and optimization process of VO2 host matrix has been done by studying the influence of deposition parameters on the structural, morphological and optical switching properties of VO2 thin films. A reversible thermal tunability of the optical/dielectric constants of VO2 thin films by spectroscopic ellipsometry has been intensively also studied in order to bring more insights about the shift of the plasmon of gold nanoparticles imbedded in VO2 host matrix.</p>

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