Research Activities

Projects

  • 1001 TÜBİTAK project on Li-ion batteries (2013-2016)
  • Santez project with Arçelik for energy efficient dishwashers (2013-2015)

Current Publications

  • Alp Yürüm, Alpay Taralp, Niyazi Bıçak, Hilmi Önder Özbelge, Levent Yılmaz, High Performance Ligands
    for the Removal of Aqueous Boron Species by Continuous Polymer Enhanced Ultrafiltration, Desalination, accepted (SCI)
  • Yuda Yürüm, Burcu Saner Okan, Firuze Okyay, Alp Yürüm,Fatma Dinç, Neylan Görgülü, Selmiye Alkan Gürsel, An Improved Technique for the Exfoliation of Graphene Nanosheets and Utilization of Their Nanocomposites as Fuel Cell Electrodes, Key Engineering Materials, 543 (2013) 9-12 (SCI)
  • Aslı Ergün, Züleyha Özlem Kocabaş, Mustafa Baysal, Alp Yürüm, Yuda Yürüm, Synthesis of mesoporous MCM-41 materials with low power microwave heating, Chemical Engineering Communications, 200 (2013) 1057-1070(SCI)
  • Burcu Saner Okan, Alp Yürüm, Neylan Görgülü, Selmiye Alkan Gürsel, Yuda Yürüm, Polypyrrole coated thermally exfoliated graphite nanoplatelets and the effect of oxygen surface groups on the interaction of platinum catalysts with graphene-based nanocomposites, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 50 (2011) 12562-12571 (SCI)
  • Pınar Aytar, Serap Gedikli, Mesut Şam, Arzu Ünal, Ahmet Çabuk, Nazif Kolankaya, Alp Yürüm, Desulphurization of some low-rank Turkish lignites with crude laccase produced from Trametes versicolor ATCC 200801, Fuel Processing Technology 92 (2011) 71?76 (SCI)
  • Beril Korkmaz Erdural, Alp Yurum, Ufuk Bakir, Gurkan Karakas, Hydrothermal Synthesis of Nanostructured TiO2 Particles and Characterization of Their Photocatalytic Antimicrobial Activity, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 8 (2008) 878-886 (SCI)
  • Beril Erdural, Alp Yürüm, Gürkan Karakaş, Ufuk Bakır, Antimicrobial Properties of Titanium Nanoparticles, Vaseashta, Ashok K., Mihailescu, Ion N. (Eds.), NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics, Functionalized Nanoscale Materials, Devices and Systems, II Springer (2008) 409-414

Current Papers in Conference Proceedings

  • Yuda Yurum, Alp Yurum, Zuleyha Ozlem Kocabas, Raphael Semiat, Synthesis and Characterization of Iron-impregnated Pre-oxidized Activated Carbon Prepared by Microwave Radiation for As(V) Removal
    from Water, EGU General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria: 2013
  • Alp Yürüm, Raphael Semiat, Microwave hydrothermal synthesis of iron oxide nanomaterials for water purification, 8th Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference (NANOTR8), Ankara, Turkey: Hacettepe University 2012
  • Yuda Yürüm, Burcu Saner Okan, Firuze Okyay, Alp Yürüm, Fatma Dinç, Neylan Görgülü, Selmiye Alkan Gürsel, An Improved Technique for the Exfoliation of Graphene Nanosheets and Utilization of Their Nanocomposites as Fuel Cell Electrodes, 2nd International Conference on Materials and Applications for Sensors and Transducers (IC-MAST 2012), Budapest, Hungary: 2012
  • Mustafa Baysal, Özlem Kocabaş, Firuze Okyay, Alp Yürüm, Fırat Duygun, Sedat İnan, Yuda Yürüm, Biogasification and combustion reactions of Turkish lignites: adsorption behavior and biogasification of soma lignite and co-combustion of Beypazari lignite with biomass (invited lecture), 43rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, California: 2012
  • Alp Yürüm, Gürkan Karakaş, Effect of carbon nanotube templates & sodium, iron & cobalt doping on the photocatalytic activity of sol-gel synthesized titania for water treatment, 243rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, California: 2012
  • Burcu Saner Okan, Alp Yürüm, Selmiye Alkan Gürsel, Yuda Yürüm, New fuel cell electrodes made from graphene nanosheets and their nanocomposites, Ahmet Oral(ed.), 7th Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference (NANOTR7), Istanbul, Turkey: Sabanci University 2011
  • Yuda Yürüm, Burcu Saner Okan, Züleyha Özlem Kocabaş, Firuze Okyay, Firuze and Aslı Nalbant Ergün, Ahu Gümrah Dumanlı, Alp Yürüm, Bor ve karbon nanomalzemelerin üretimi ve karakterizasyonu, Kocaeli Nanoteknoloji Günleri, Kocaeli, Türkiye: Kocaeli Üniversitesi 2011
  • Alp Yürüm, Gürkan Karakaş, Effect of carbon nanotube templates & doping on the photocatalytic activity of sol-gel synthesized titania, 6th Eastern Mediterranean Chemical Engineering Conference (EMCC6), Antalya, Turkey: 2010