Stuart Turner

phone: +32 3 265 35 72, fax: +32 3 265 33 18, e-mail : stuart.turner@ua.ac.be

Personal data & Academic degrees

• Place & date of birth: Amersfoort (NL) - 27/01/1983
• Master of industrial sciences - Chemical engineer, KDG hogeschool, Antwerp, 2005

Scientific Career

• 2006-now: Ph.D. researcher at EMAT, university of Antwerp
  

Main topics of interest

• TEM, HRTEM, HAADF-STEM, STEM-EELS and Electron Tomography for nanoparticle characterization

  • Treated detonation nanodiamond : nitrogen incorporation - NV color centers, Morphology, Surface activation and functionalisation
  • Study of the intrinsic properties of self-arranged metallic nanoparticles : oxidation behavior of self-arranged Co nanoparticles
  • Study of hybrid nanoparticle – nanoporous materials : metal@MOF-5, metal@ZIF-8, metal@SiO 2
  • Study of metal-oxide nanoparticles : ZnO, CeO 2 , Co:BTO, MgO, CaO

  Production of metal-oxide nanomaterials by assisted Spray Pyrolysis

  · Citric-acid assisted spray pyrolysis of metal-oxides: ZnO, CaO and MgO

  · Salt-assisted spray pyrolysis of metal-oxides: BTO

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