Dr Uche Onwukwe
Research Fellow
Summary
Uche is a Research fELLOW with a background in Materials Science and a PhD in biomimetics towards the green synthesis of functional materials. They have extensive experience in the use of various characterisation techniques including electron microscopy (TEM and SEM), various spectroscopic techniques (Raman, FTIR, UV-VIS-NIR) , a range of X-Ray techniques (XRF, XRD) and an understanding of the use of different thermal techniques.
Their research interests lies in nanomaterials synthesis and characterisation, biomimetics and presently in circular economy - specifically phytomining and hyperaccumulators.
Newest selected publications
Onwukwe, U. and Anguilano, L. (Accepted) 'Advanced Characterizations of Oxides for Optoelectronic Applications', in Ray, A. (ed.) Oxide Electronics.
Salimian, A., Hasnath, A., Anguilano, L., Onwukwe, U., Aminishahsavarani, A., Sachez, C. and et al. (2020) 'Highly conductive zinc oxide based transparent conductive oxide films prepared using RF plasma sputtering under reducing atmosphere'. Coatings, 10 (5). pp. 1 - 17.Open Access Link
Jaffer Al-Timimi, IA., Onwukwe, UK., Worsley, MP. and Sermon, PA. (2016) 'Biomimetic TiO2 formation from interfacial sol-gel chemistry leading to new photocatalysts'.SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering. San Diego, CA. 13 - 31 August. SPIE. pp. 99280E - 99280E. ISSN: 0277-786X