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Janusz Nowotny

Janusz Nowotny
Director, Centre for Materials Research in Energy Conversion

School of Materials Science and Engineering
University of New South Wales
NSW 2052, Australia

Tel +61 2 9385 6465 or +61 2 9385 6459
Fax +61 2 9385 6467
Email j.nowotny@unsw.edu.au





Research Areas

  • Chemical gas sensors
  • Materials for energy conversion
Research Interests

Chemical gas sensors

  • Electrochemical sensors
  • Semiconducting and structural sensors
Materials interfaces, such as surfaces and grain boundaries

  • Interface chemistry
  • Interface segregation
  • Transport along and across interfaces
  • Impact of interfaces on materials properties
Solid state chemistry

  • Non-stoichiometric compounds
  • Gas/solid and solid/solid processes
  • Diffusion in solids
Solid state electrochemistry

  • Mass and charge transport
  • Oxide semiconductors
  • Ionic and mixed conductors
  • Photo-electrochemistry
  • Electrochemical devices, such as solid oxide fuel cells
  • Electrode processes
Defect chemistry

  • Defects equilibria
  • Defects mobility
  • Defect-related properties
Mass and charge transport in solids

  • Electronic transport
  • Ionic transport
Selected Publications

  1. J. Nowotny Interface Defect Chemistry and its Impact on Properties of Oxide Materials Science of Ceramic Interfaces II, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1991, pp. 79-204
  2. J. Nowotny and M. Rekas Defect Structure, Electrical Properties and Transport in Barium Titanate Ceramics International, 20 (1994) 213-270
  3. K. Kowalski, E.G. Moya and J. Nowotny Grain Boundary Diffusion in CoO J.Phys Chem. Solids 57 [2] (1996) 153-163
  4. J. Nowotny Interface Electrical Phenomena in Ionic Solids P.J. Gellings and H.J.M. Bouwmeester, Handbook of Solid State Electrochemistry, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1997, pp. 122-159
  5. J. Nowotny, M. Radecka, M. Rekas, S. Sugihara, E.R. Vance and W. Weppner Electrical Properties of TiO2 Within the n-p Transition Range. Determination of Ionic Conductivity Ceramics International, 24 (1998) 553-559
  6. T. Bak, J. Nowotny and C.C. Sorrell Electrical Properties of Metal Oxides at Elevated Temperatures Electrical Properties of Oxide Materials, Trans Tech Publications, Zurich, 1997, pp. 1-80