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Professor Claire Carmalt (UCL) provides a lecture on Scalable Routes to Functional Materials. Also on Teams.

Biography

Claire completed both her BSc and PhD at the University of Newcastle. After some postdoctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin she was awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship and moved to UCL. She started a lectureship at UCL in 2001 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002, Reader in 2004 and Professor in 2009. She was Head of the Inorganic & Materials Section from 2010-2016 and Vice-Dean(Education), for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Faculty at UCL. In 2016 she became Head of Department for Chemistry and the first woman appointed to the position and has received a One UCL Leadership Award for Outstanding Contribution in 2021. She was awarded several prizes from the Royal Society of Chemistry including the Meldola Medal, the Applied Inorganic Chemistry Prize, and the Tilden prize.

Abstract

The search for efficient materials for sustainable infrastructure is a key challenge to address the global environmental crisis. Sunlight-activated coatings, particularly those produced from scalable technologies, are sought in the glass industry for applications in self-cleaning windows Current research involves developing processes towards sustainable and inexpensive functional materials including photocatalysts, anti-soiling coatings, transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) and photoelectrochemical films on float glass. Our method uses aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition (AACVD) to develop large scale coatings. Compared to conventional CVD, the AACVD method uses aerosol droplets to transport precursors, with the aid of an inert carrier gases. Therefore, in AACVD volatility is no longer crucial and this allows for a wider choice of precursors being available for use and can lead to high quality films at low cost.

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