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Department of Catalysis

Head of department dr. Loreta Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė
phone +370 5 266 1291, +370 614 48712

About department

  • Catalytic reduction of metal ions in solution, application of such kind reactions for deposition of metal coatings and formation of small (nano-scale) metal particles. Investigation of electrocatalytic properties of metal colloids
  • Electrocatalytic processes in fuel cell systems
  • Formation of metal sulphide layers and their application for the deposition of metallic coatings on dielectrics
  • Investigation of equilibria of heavy metal ion complex formation in aqueous solutions


Services available
  • Electroless deposition of metal coatings and metallizing of plastics.
    Contacting person Prof. habil. dr. Eugenijus Norkus, e-mail: eugenijus.norkus@ftmc.lt, tel. +370 5 2648892
  • Determination of small quantities of metals.
    Contacting person dr. Jūratė Vaičiūnienė, e-mail: jurate.vaiciuniene@ftmc.lt
  • Consultations on both electroless plating and chemical analysis.
    Contacting person Prof. habil. dr. Eugenijus Norkus, e-mail: eugenijus.norkus@ftmc.lt, tel. +370 5  2648892
  • Microwave-assisted synthesis of various metals and their alloys nanoparticles. Contacting person dr. Loreta Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, e-mail: loreta.tamasauskaite@ftmc.lt, tel. +370 5 2661291.
Equipment

Light Absorbance Spectrophotometer Perkin Elmer Lambda 35 UV/VIS
This ultraviolet visible spectrophotometer is designed for quantifying the optical properties of various samples (liquids, solids, pastes and powders) in the ultraviolet and visible wavelength ranges of light (190 to 1100 nm). The variable bandwidth operation allows sensitive measurements with accessories such as integrating spheres and fiber-optics probes, extending the range of samples that can be analyzed (www.perkinelmer.com).

  
   

ICP-Optical Emission Spectrometer Optima 7000DV
ICP-Optical Emission Spectrometer Optima 7000DV is capable of determining extremely low concentrations of elements in drinking-water certified reference materials, with high speed, according to the requirements of various regulatory bodies.

  
   

Potentiostat/galvanostat Autolab PGSTAT100N with rotating disk system (Metrohm)
The PGSTAT100N is a high voltage potentiostat/galvanostat with a compliance voltage of 100 V and a maximum current of 250 mA. This instrument is designed to address the needs of scientists doing electrochemical measurements such as cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, chronopotenciometry, etc. (www.metrohm-autolab.com).

  
   

Fuel Cell Test System (Scribner Associates Inc.)
The 850e Fuel cell test system is ideal for single-cell and short-stack fuel cell research and university programs, and the powerful FuelCell®software package is included for controlling station operation. The model 850e Multi-Range Fuel Cell Test System is a complete test station for operation and measurement of PEM/DMFC fuel cells. The 850e combines a computer-controlled instrument (multiple current-range programmable electronic load, fuel and temperature controls, and data acquisition functions) with fuel handling hardware in an integrated bench-top unit. The 850e uses the proven 890e as the basis for the electronic load design. The 850e may be used with a single-cell or small stack, a host computer, and reactant and purge gas supplies (www.scribner.com).

  
   

Microwave Reaction System: Multiwave PRO (Anton Paar)
The instrument delivers the high-quality solutions you need in sample preparation to obtain excellent trace analysis results even with complicated, demanding samples. Its wide range of accessories allows digestion, parallel method development, multigram synthesis, leaching, oxygen combustion, solvent extraction, drying, evaporation, and UV digestion with one single system (www.antonpaar.com).

 

  
   

Microwave reactor Monowave 300 (Anton Paar)
Microwave reactor is designed for small scale microwave synthesis of metal nanostructures in solution:(www.antonpaar.com)

  
   

Microreactor (Sigma-Aldrich)
The Microreactor is a quite affordable all-in-one solution for the chemical synthesis of various compounds.

  
   

Gas volume meter (Ritter)
The gas volume meter “MilliGascounterÒ type MGC“ (Ritter) is designed for the volumetric measurement of the smallest amounts of gas with ultra-low flow rates. It is suitable for measurement of all inert, slightly corrosive gases such as biogas (PMMA model) and aggressive gases (PVDF model). Furthermore, it can be used for volumetric leak detection.

  
Projects

  • Project of Baltic Research Programme “Sustainably produced carbon nanomaterials for energy applications [SuNaMa]”. Project promoter: State Research Institute Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (Lithuania, PI: prof. habil. dr. Eugenijus Norkus), partners: SINTEF as, by its institute SINTEF Industry (Norway, PI: dr. Mari Juel), Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry (Latvia, PI: dr. Galina Dobele), and National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (Estonia, PI: dr. Ivar Kruusenberg).

    Project execution time - 01.12.2021 to 31.12.2023, project number - LT08-1-ŠMSM-K01-012, contract No. S-BMT-21-12 (LT08-2-LMT-K-01-055)).

    Total eligible costs of the project: 988000,00 EUR (EUR 839800,00 grant from the EEA Financial Mechanism and EUR 148200,00 budget co-financing)

    Anotation: The main objective of the SuNaMa project is to develop innovative, high-performance, highly conductive, electrocatalytically active, durable, cost-effective, and high surface area nanocarbon materials. These materials are potential candidates to be employed in low-carbon energy technologies such as ultracapacitors, metal-air batteries, and fuel cells. This would represent a significant breakthrough in the renewable and low-carbon energy technology sector and exponentially widen the market with an environmentally friendly, low-cost technology with a substantial impact on reducing CO2 emission as well the environmental hazard produced by various industries. The focus of the SuNaMa project is to improve the performance of the state-of-the-art ultracapacitors, metal-air batteries, and fuel cells as well significantly reduce the price of these technologies.

     

  • R&D contract with USA firm LAM Research Corporation (California, Silicon Valey), Supervisor Prof. Dr. Habil. E. Norkus, 2016 – 2017.

    Investigation of deposition of various metals or their alloys on various substrates using autocatalytic metal ions reduction. Development of novel technologies and their patenting.

     
  • „M-era.Net“ (From materials science and engineering to innovation for Europe) project “Wood-based Carbon Catalysts for Low-temperature Fuel Cells“ (WoBaCat). Project coordinator: University of Tartu (Estonia), partners: Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry (Latvia), Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (Lithuania, PI: dr. L. Tamašauskaitė Tamašiūnaitė), Horizont Pulp Paper Ltd (Estonia), reg. No. project3213, 2016-09-01 – 2018-08-31.
    Anotation: Development of anode catalyst materials for the low-temperature fuel cell applications:
    • Creating of novel non-noble metal catalytic materials by means of electroless metal deposition and microwave synthesis;
    • Electrochemical characterization of the fuel cell anode catalyst materials and evaluation of the intrinsic electrocatalytic activity for hydrogen oxidation reaction;
    • Electrode engineering and MEA testing under realistic methanol PEM fuel cell operation conditions.
     

  • Project of National Research Programme “Towards future technologies“ “Formation of functional bio-inspired surfaces for space applications via hybrid laser-chemical processing (FunSpace). Supervisor Dr. Mindaugas Gedvilas, 2016-04-01 – 2018-12-31.
    Anotation: The project is devoted to develop bio-inspired shark skin and butterfly wing like surface structures with hybrid direct laser wright and chemical stamp technology, which can be implemented for the efficiency enhancement of the spacecraft micro-yet and cooling injection nozzles. The modeling and experimental work on surface friction reduction in the liquid/gas environment will be carried out in order to optimize the structure geometry.

Most important publications
  1. Upskuvienė, Daina; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Drabavičius, Audrius; Jasulaitienė, Vitalija; Niaura, Gediminas; Talaikis, Martynas; Plavniece, Ance; Dobele, Galina; Volperts, Aleksandrs; Zhurinsh, Aivars; Lin, Yu-Chuan; Chen, Yu-Wen; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Synthesis of nitrogen-doped carbon catalyst from hydrothermally carbonized wood chips for oxygen reduction // Catalysis communications. ISSN 1566-7367. 2023, vol. 184, art. no. 106797, p. 1-8
  2. Taha Abdelhamid Alfa, Ahmed Mohamed; Casanova, Federico; Talaikis, Martynas; Stankevič, Voitech; Žurauskienė, Nerija; Šimonis, Povilas; Pakštas, Vidas; Jurkūnas, Marijus; Gomaa, Mohamed A. E.; Stirkė, Arūnas. Effects of pulsed electric field on the physicochemical and structural properties of micellar casein//Polymers. eISSN 2073-4360. 2023, vol.15, iss.15, art. no. 3311, p. 1-14.
  3. Volperts, Aleksandrs; Upskuvienė, Daina; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Jasulaitienė, Vitalija; Niaura, Gediminas; Drabavičius, Audrius; Plavniece, Ance; Dobele, Galina; Zhurinsh, Aivars; Lin, Yu-Chuan; Chen, Yu-Wen; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Copper-nitrogen dual-doped activated carbon derived from alder wood as an electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction//Catalysis communications. ISSN 1566-7367. 2023, vol. 182, art. no. 106743, p. 1-11.
  4. Zabielaitė, Aušrinė; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Upskuvienė, Daina; Šimkūnaitė, Dijana; Levinas, Ramūnas; Niaura, Gediminas; Vaičiūnienė, Jūratė; Jasulaitienė, Vitalija; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Investigation of hydrogen and oxygen evolution on cobalt-nanoparticles-supported graphitic carbon nitride//Materials. ISSN 1996-1944. 2023, vol. 16, iss. 17, art. no. 5923, p. 1-23.
  5. Zabielaitė, Aušrinė; Eicher-Lorka, Olegas; Kuodis, Zenonas; Levinas, Ramūnas; Šimkūnaitė, Dijana; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Synthesis of silver nanocubes@cobalt ferrite/graphitic carbon nitride for electrochemical water splitting//Crystals. eISSN 2073-4352. 2023, vol. 13, iss. 9, art. no. 1342, p. 1-17.
  6. Dobele, Galina; Plavniece, Ance; Volperts, Aleksandrs; Zhurinsh, Aivars; Upskuvienė, Daina; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Jasulaitienė, Vitalija; Niaura, Gediminas; Talaikis, Martynas; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus; Kvello, Jannicke; Colmenares-Rausseo, Luis César. Effect of pretreatment on the nitrogen doped activated carbon materials activity towards oxygen reduction reaction//Materials. eISSN 1996-1944. 2023, vol. 16, iss. 17, art. no. 6005, p. 1-17.
  7. Nacys, Antanas; Šimkūnaitė, Dijana; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Zabielaitė, Aušrinė; Upskuvienė, Daina; Levinas, Ramūnas; Jasulaitienė, Vitalija; Kovalevskij, Vitalij; Šimkūnaitė-Stanynienė, Birutė; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Pt-coated Ni layer supported on Ni foam for enhanced electro-oxidation of formic acid//Materials. eISSN 1996-1944. 2023, vol. 16, iss. 19, art. no. 6427, p. 1-4.
  8. Sukackienė, Zita; Valeckytė, Gitana; Kepenienė, Virginija; Stalnionienė, Irena; Jasulaitienė, Vitalija; Vaičiūnienė, Jūratė; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Stalnionis, Giedrius; Norkus, Eugenijus. Non-precious metals catalysts for hydrogen generation//Coatings. eISSN 2079-6412. 2023, vol. 13, iss. 10, art. no. 1740, p. 1-16.
  9. Levinas, Ramūnas; Tsyntsaru, Natalia; Cesiulis, Henrikas; Viter, Roman; Grundsteins, Karlis; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Electrochemical synthesis of a WO3/MoSx heterostructured bifunctional catalyst for efficient overall water splitting // Coatings. eISSN 2079-6412. 2023, vol. 13, iss. 4, art. no. 673, p. 1-19.
  10. Barua, Sukomol; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Vaičiūnienė, Jūratė; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Bimetallic 3D nickel-manganese/titanium bifunctional electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen and oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline and acidic media // Coatings. eISSN 2079-6412. 2023, vol. 13, iss. 6, p. 1-19.
  11. Chen, Bo-Yan; Dobele, Galina; Plavniece, Ance; Volperts, Aleksandrs; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus; Chen, Chi-Liang; Lin, Yu-Chuan. Catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to light olefins by using K-doped FeCx catalysts derived from the Fe-chitosan complex // International journal of hydrogen energy. ISSN 0360-3199. 2023, vol. 48, iss. 11, p. 4276-4286.
  12. Žarkov, Aleksej; Kareiva, Aivaras; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta. Advances in functional inorganic materials prepared by wet chemical methods (volume II) // Crystals. ISSN 2073-4352. 2023, vol. 13, iss. 2, art. no. 324, p. 1-4.
  13. Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Jablonskienė, Jolita; Šimkūnaitė, Dijana; Volperts, Aleksandrs; Plavniece, Ance; Dobele, Galina; Zhurinsh, Aivars; Jasulaitienė, Vitalija; Niaura, Gediminas; Drabavičius, Audrius; Juel, Mari; Colmenares-Rausseo, Luis; Kruusenberg, Ivar; Kaare, Kätlin; Norkus, Eugenijus. Black liquor and wood char-derived nitrogen-doped carbon materials for supercapacitors // Materials. eISSN 1996-1944. 2023, vol. 16, iss. 7, art. no. 2551, p. 1-14.
  14. Taha Abdelhamid Alfa, Ahmed Mohamed; Casanova, Federico; Šimonis, Povilas; Jonikaitė-Švėgždienė, Jūratė; Jurkūnas, Marijus; Gomaa, Mohamed A.E.; Stirkė, Arūnas. Pulsed electric field-assisted glycation of bovine serum albumin/starch conjugates improved their emulsifying properties // Innovative food science & emerging technologies. ISSN 1466-8564. 2022, vol. 82, art. no. 103190, p. 1-1.
  15. Barua, Sukomol; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Vaičiūnienė, Jūratė; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Three-dimensional Au(NiMo)/Ti catalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction // Materials. eISSN 1996-1944. 2022, vol. 15, iss. 22, art. no. 7901, p. 1-12.
  16. Levinas, Ramūnas; Grigucevičienė, Asta; Kubilius, Tadas; Matijošius, Aidas; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Cesiulis, Henrikas; Norkus, Eugenijus. Femtosecond laser-ablated copper surface as a substrate for a MoS2-based hydrogen evolution reaction electrocatalyst // Materials. ISSN 1996-1944. 2022, vol. 15, iss. 11, art. no. 3926, p. 1-20.
  17. Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Zabielaitė, Aušrinė; Sukackienė, Zita; Kepenienė, Virginija; Šimkūnaitė, Dijana; Selskis, Algirdas; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Fabrication of efficient gold−nickel-supported titania nanotube electrocatalysts for sodium borohydride−hydrogen peroxide fuel cells // Coatings. ISSN 2079-6412. 2022, vol. 12, iss. 6, art. no. 850, p. 1-24.
  18. Kepenienė, Virginija; Stagniūnaitė, Raminta; Rafique, Sidra; Vaičiūnienė, Jūratė; Jasulaitienė, Vitalija; Pakštas, Vidas; Sukackienė, Zita; Vilkauskaitė, Rasa; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Pd-supported Co3O4/C catalysts as promising electrocatalytic materials for oxygen reduction reaction // Catalysts. ISSN 2073-4344. 2022, vol. 12, iss. 8, art. no. 920, p. 1-15.
  19. Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Upskuvienė, Daina; Antanaitis, Augustas; Šimkūnaitė, Dijana; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Vaičiūnienė, Jūratė; Norkus, Eugenijus. 3D-structured Au(NiMo)/Ti catalysts for the electrooxidation of glucose // Catalysts. eISSN 2073-4344. 2022, vol. 12, iss. 8, art. no. 892, p. 1-20.
  20. Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Upadhyay, Kush K.; Radinović, Kristina; Santos, Diogo M. F.; Montemor, M. F.; Šljukić, Biljana. Steps towards highly-efficient water splitting and oxygen reduction using nanostructured β-Ni(OH) 2 // RSC advances. eISSN 2046-2069. 2022, vol. 12, iss. 16, p. 10020-10028.
  21. Radinović, Kristina; Milikić, Jadranka; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Sukackienė, Zita; Bošković, Marko; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Šljukić, Biljana. Low Au-content CoAu electrodes for environmental applications // RSC advances. ISSN 2046-2069. 2022, vol. 12, iss. 40, p. 26134-26146
  22. Sukackienė, Zita; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Kepenienė, Virginija; Vaičiūnienė, Jūratė; Stalnionis, Giedrius; Pakštas, Vidas; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Comparison of the activity of 3D binary or ternary cobalt coatings for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions // Batteries. ISSN 2313-0105. 2022, vol. 8, iss. 9, art. no. 129, p. 1-14.
  23. Nacys, Antanas; Šimkūnaitė, Dijana; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Zabielaitė, Aušrinė; Upskuvienė, Daina; Šebeka, Benjaminas; Jasulaitienė, Vitalija; Kovalevskij, Vitalij; Norkus, Eugenijus; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta. An enhanced oxidation of formate on PtNi/Ni foam catalyst in an alkaline medium. Crystals. eISSN 2073-4352. 2022, vol. 12, iss. 3, art. no. 362, p. 1-18
  24. Nacys, Antanas; Kilmonis, Teofilius; Kepenienė, Virginija; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Stagniūnaitė, Raminta; Upskuvienė, Daina; Jablonskienė, Jolita; Vaičiūnienė, Jūratė; Skapas, Martynas; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. One-pot microwave-assisted synthesis of graphene-supported PtCoM (M = Mn, Ru, Mo) catalysts for low-temperature fuel cells. Catalysts. ISSN 2073-4344. 2021, vol. 11, iss. 12, art. no. 1431, p. 1-19.
  25. Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Zabielaitė, Aušrinė; Upskuvienė, Daina; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Stalnionienė, Irena; Naruškevičius, Leonas; Vaičiūnienė, Jūratė; Selskis, Algirdas; Juškėnas, Remigijus; Norkus, Eugenijus. Platinum nanoparticles modified copper/titanium electrodes as electrocatalysts for borohydride oxidation. Materials. eISSN 1996-1944. 2021, vol. 14, iss. 24, art. no. 7663, p. 1-15.
  26. Jablonskienė, Jolita; Šimkūnaitė, Dijana; Vaičiūnienė, Jūratė; Stalnionis, Giedrius; Drabavičius, Audrius; Jasulaitienė, Vitalija; Pakštas, Vidas; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Synthesis of carbon-supported MnO2 nanocomposites for supercapacitors application. Crystals. eISSN 2073-4352. 2021, vol. 11, no. 7, art. no. 784, p. 1-14.
  27. Žarkov, Aleksej; Kareiva, Aivaras; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta. Advances in functional inorganic materials prepared by wet chemical methods. Crystals. eISSN 2073-4352. 2021, vol. 11, no. 8, art. no. 943, p. 1-3.
  28. Nevinskas, Ignas; Mockus, Zenius; Juškėnas, Remigijus; Norkus, Ričardas; Selskis, Algirdas; Norkus, Eugenijus; Krotkus, Arūnas. Terahertz photoconductivity spectra of electrodeposited Thin Bi films. Materials. ISSN 1996-1944. 2021, vol. 14, iss. 12, art. no. 3150, p. 1-9.
  29. Milikić, Jadranka; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Sukackienė, Zita; Mladenović, Dušan; Santos, Diogo M. F.; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Šljukić, Biljana. Bimetallic Co-based (CoM, M = Mo, Fe, Mn) coatings for high-efficiency water splitting. Materials. ISSN 1996-1944. 2021, vol. 14, iss. 1, art. no. 92, p. 1-15.
  30. Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Sukackienė, Zita; Antanavičiūtė, Kornelija; Vaičiūnienė, Jūratė; Naujokaitis, Arnas; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Investigation of hydrogen generation from sodium borohydride using different cobalt catalysts. International journal of hydrogen energy. ISSN 0360-3199. 2021, vol. 46, iss. 2, p. 1989-1996.
  31. Stagniūnaitė, Raminta; Kepenienė, Virginija; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Drabavičius, Audrius; Pakštas, Vidas; Jasulaitienė, Vitalija; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. An electrocatalytic activity of AuCeO2/carbon catalyst in fuel cell reactions: oxidation of borohydride and reduction of oxygen. Catalysts. ISSN 2073-4344. 2021, vol. 11, iss. 3, art. no. 342, p. 1-15.
  32. Kaare, Kätlin; Yu, Eric; Käämbre, Tanel; Volperts, Aleksandrs; Dobele, Galina; Zhurinsh, Aivars; Niaura, Gediminas; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus; Kruusenberg, Ivar. Biomass‐derived graphene‐like catalyst material for oxygen reduction reaction. ChemNanoMat. ISSN 2199-692X. 2021, vol. 7, iss. 3, p. 307-313.
  33. Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Dordi, Yezdi; Norkus, Eugenijus; Stankevičienė, Ina; Jagminienė, Aldona; Naujokaitis, Arnas; Tumonis, Liudas; Buzas, Vytenis; Maciulis, Laurynas. Electroless platinum deposition using Co3+/Co2+ redox couple as a reducing agent. Materials. ISSN 1996-1944. 2021, vol. 14, iss. 8, art. no. 1893, p. 1-11.
  34. Milikić, Jadranka; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Sukackienė, Zita; Mladenović, Dušan; Santos, Diogo M. F.; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Šljukić, Biljana. Bimetallic Co-based (CoM, M = Mo, Fe, Mn) coatings for high-efficiency water splitting. Materials. ISSN 1996-1944. 2021, vol. 14, iss. 1, art. no. 92, p. 1-15.
  35. Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Sukackienė, Zita; Antanavičiūtė, Kornelija; Vaičiūnienė, Jūratė; Naujokaitis, Arnas; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus. Investigation of hydrogen generation from sodium borohydride using different cobalt catalysts. International journal of hydrogen energy. ISSN 0360-3199. 2021, vol. 46, iss. 2, p. 1989-1996.
  36. Kepenienė, Virginija; Stagniūnaitė, Raminta; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Pakštas, Vidas; Jasulaitienė, Vitalija; Léger, B.; Rousseau, J.; Ponchel, A.; Monflier, E.; Norkus, Eugenijus. Co3O4/C and Au supported Co3O4/C nanocomposites – Peculiarities of fabrication and application towards oxygen reduction reaction. Materials chemistry and physics. ISSN 0254-0584. 2020,vol. 241, art. no. 122332, p. 1-11.
  37. Zabielaitė, Aušrinė; Balčiūnaitė, Aldona; Šimkūnaitė, Dijana; Lichušina, Svetlana; Stalnionienė, Irena; Šimkūnaitė-Stanynienė, Birutė; Naruškevičius, Leonas; Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, Loreta; Norkus, Eugenijus; Selskis, Algirdas; Pakštas, Vidas. High performance direct N2H4-H2O2 fuel cell using fiber-shaped Co decorated with Pt crystallites as anode electrocatalysts. Journal of the electrochemical society. ISSN 0013-4651. 2020, vol. 167, iss. 5, art. no. 054502, p. 1-9.
  38. Ratautas, Karolis; Jagminienė, Aldona; Stankevičienė, Ina; Sadauskas, Modestas; Norkus, Eugenijus; Račiukaitis, Gediminas. Evaluation and optimisation of the SSAIL method for laser-assisted selective electroless copper deposition on dielectrics. Results in physics. ISSN 2211-3797. 2020, vol. 16, art. no. 102943, p. 1-10.
  39. Kalinauskas, Putinas; Norkus, Eugenijus; Mockus, Zenius; Giraitis, Raimondas; Stalnionis, Giedrius; Jasulaitienė, Vitalija; Juškėnas, Remigijus. The influence of removal of secondary phases and dissolution by-product from the surface of Cu2ZnSnS4 film on the photoelectrochemical response of this film. Journal of the electrochemical society. ISSN 0013-4651. 2020, vol. 167, iss. 2, art. no. 026513, p. 1-6.
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