Doctor Tad Bak

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,
Solar Energy Technologies

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GradDipIT University of Newcastle (NSW)
PhDTechSci Stanislaw Staszic Academy of Mining Metallurgy Pol
CertTeach Stanislaw Staszic Academy of Mining Metallurgy Pol
MEngMatTech Stanislaw Staszic Academy of Mining Metallurgy Pol

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Solar Energy Technologies

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Email:	T.Bak@uws.edu.au
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Location:	16.G.30 Campbelltown
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Biography

1992-1995: Research Associate, Institute of Materials Science and Ceramics, University of Science and Technology (AGH), Cracow, Poland 1995-2008: Research Fellow, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia From 2008: Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Australia

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Publications

Chapters in Books

Nowotny, J., Sorrell, C., Bak, T. and Sheppard, L. (2005), 'Defect Disorder, Transport, and Photo-electrochemical Properties of Titanium Dioxide', Materials for Energy Conversion Devices, Woodhead Publishing Ltd 9781855739321.

Journal Articles

Idris, M., Bak, T., Li, S. and Nowotny, J. (2012), 'Effect of segregation on surface and near-surface chemistry of yttria-stabilized zirconia', Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C: Nanomaterials, Interfaces and Hard Matter, 9.
Bak, T., Nowotny, J., Sucher, N., Sucher, N. and Wachsman, E. (2012), 'Photocatalytic water disinfection on oxide semiconductors. Part 1, Basic concepts of TiO2 photocatalysis', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 12.
Atanacio, A., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2012), 'Effect of indium segregation on the surface versus bulk chemistry for indium-doped TiO2', ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9.
Bak, T., Bogdanoff, P., Fiechter, S. and Nowotny, J. (2012), 'Defect engineering of titanium dioxide : full defect disorder', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 10.
Sucher, N., Sucher, N., Carles, M., Nowotny, J. and Bak, T. (2012), 'Photocatalytic water disinfection on oxide semiconductors. Part 2, Structure, functional properties and reactivity of macrobial agents', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 18.
Fiechter, S., Bogdanoff, P., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2012), 'Basic concepts of photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion systems', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 5.
Bak, T., Guo, Z., Li, W., Atanacio, A. and Nowotny, J. (2012), 'Chemically-induced electric field : flat band potential engineering', Proceedings of SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering, .
Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2011), 'Reactivity of rutile with oxygen and hydrogen and related charge transfer', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 10.
Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2011), 'Semiconducting properties of oxidized and reduced polycrystalline TiO 2. Jonker analysis', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 7.
Bak, T., Nowotny, J., Sucher, N. and Wachsman, E. (2011), 'Effect of crystal imperfections on reactivity and photoreactivity of TiO2 (Rutile) with oxygen, water, and bacteria', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 28.
Bak, T., Norby, T., Nowotny, A., Nowotny, M. and Sucher, N. (2010), 'Titanium Dioxide Photocatalyst. Unresolved Problems', Solid State Phenomena, 14.
Nowotny, J., Norby, T. and Bak, T. (2010), 'Reactivity between titanium dioxide and water at elevated temperatures', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 7.
Bak, T., Nowotny, J. and Nguyen, Q. (2010), 'Titanium dioxide photocatalysts: Performance-related properties', Diffusion and Defect Data Pt.B: Solid State Phenomena, 7.
Bak, T., Nowotny, J. and Stranger, J. (2010), 'Electrical properties of TiO2: Equilibrium vs dynamic electrical conductivity', Ionics, 7.
Sheppard, L., Dittrich, T., Nowotny, J. and Bak, T. (2010), 'Surface photovoltage studies of nonstoichiometric rutile titanium dioxide', Applied Physics Letters, .
Nowotny, M., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. and Sheppard, L. (2010), 'Semiconducting properties of single crystal TiO2 in the n-p transition region', Journal of the Australian Ceramic Society, 4.
Sheppard, L., Atanacio, A., Bak, T., Nowotny, J., Nowotny, M. and Prince, K. (2009), 'Niobium diffusion in niobium-doped titanium dioxide', Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, 7.
Bak, T., Nowotny, J., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2009), 'Dynamics of TiO2-based photoelectrochemical cell', Ionics, 9.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2008), 'Effect of cooling on electrical conductivity of Titanium Dioxide', Physica Status Solidi. B, 12.
Bak, T., Nowotny, M., Nowotny, J. and Sheppard, L. (2008), 'Effect of Prolonged oxidation on the semiconducting properties of titanium dioxide', Journal of Physical Chemistry (C), 10.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2008), 'Mobility of charge carriers in titanium dioxide', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 7.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2008), 'Defect Chemistry and electrical conductivity of titanium dioxide. 1. Defect diagrams', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 12.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2008), 'Defect chemistry and electrical conductivity of TiO2. 2. Effect of aliovalent ions', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 9.
Sheppard, L., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2008), 'Electrical properties of niobium doped Titanium dioxide III. Thermoelectric Power', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 7.
Nowotny, M., Sheppard, L., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2008), 'Defect chemistry of TiO2. Applicationof Defect engineering in processing TiO2 photocatalysts', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 26.
Bak, T., Nowotny, M., Sheppard, L. and Nowotny, J. (2008), 'Charge Transport in Cr-doped titanium dioxide', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 8.
Sheppard, L., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. and Nowotny, M. (2008), 'Effect of Oxygen Activity on Niobium Segregation in Niobium-Doped Titanium Dioxide', Australasian Ceramic Society. Journal, 5.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Sheppard, L. and Nowotny, M. (2008), 'Reactivity of Titanium Dioxide with Oxygen at Room Temperature and the Related Charge Transfer', American Chemical Society. Journal, 10.
Tributsch, H., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. and Sheppard, L. (2008), 'Photoreactivity models for titanium dioxide with water', Energy Materials: Materials Science and Engineering for Energy Systems, 11.
Sheppard, L., Atanacio, A., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. and Prince, K. (2007), 'Application of Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry in Studies of Niobium Segregation in Niobium-Doped Titanium Dioxide', Australasian Ceramic Society. Journal, 6.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2007), 'Defect chemistry of titanium dioxide effect of interfaces', Australasian Ceramic Society. Journal, 7.
Nowotny, M., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2007), 'Electrical conductivity of TiO2 within n-p transition Part I -Verification of defect disorder model', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 8.
Nowotny, M., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2007), 'Electrical conductivity of TiO2 within n-p transition Part II -Electrical conductivity components', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 6.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2007), 'Titanium dioxide for solar-hydrogen I. Functional properties', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 21.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2007), 'Titanium dioxide for solar-hydrogen II. Defect chemistry', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 14.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2007), 'Titanium dioxide for solar-hydrogen III: Kinetic effects at elevated temperatures', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 7.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2007), 'Titanium dioxide for solar-hydrogen IV. Collective and local factors in photoreactivity', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 9.
Sheppard, L., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. and Nowotny, M. (2007), 'Titanium dioxide for solar-hydrogen V. Metallic-type conduction of Nb-doped TiO2', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 4.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Burg, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2007), 'Effect of Grain Boundaries on Semiconducting Properties of TiO2 at Elevated Temperatures', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part C: Nanomaterials and Interfaces, 10.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Sheppard, L. and Sorrell, C. (2007), 'Solar-Hydrogen: A Solid-State Chemistry Perspective', Advances in Solar Energy, 47.
Sheppard, L., Atanacio, T., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. and Prince, K. (2007), 'Bulk Diffusion of Niobium in Single Crystal TiO2', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B: Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces & Biophysical, 5.
Sheppard, L., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2007), 'Reactivity of TiO2 with water and oxygen: surface science perspective', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 8.
Burg, T., Bak, T., Nowotny, J., Sheppard, L. and Sorrell, C. (2007), 'Effect of sintering on microstructure of TiO2 ceramics', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 6.
Sheppard, L., Zhou, M., Atanacio, A., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. and Prince, K. (2007), 'Determination of niobium diffusion in titania and zirconia using secondary ion mass spectrometry', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 6.
Grzesik, Z., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. and Henry, B. (2007), 'Chemical diffusion in amphoteric oxide semiconductors', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 5.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T. and Burg, T. (2007), 'Electrical properties of polycrystalline TiO2: Equilibration kinetics', Ionics, 8.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T. and Burg, T. (2007), 'Electrical properties of polycrystalline TiO2. Prolonged oxidation kinetics', Ionics, 4.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T. and Burg, T. (2007), 'Electrical properties of polycrystalline TiO2 at elevated temperatures. Electrical conductivity', Physica Status Solidi (B) Basic Research, 18.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T. and Burg, T. (2007), 'Electrical properties of polycrystalline TiO2. Thermoelectric power', Ionics, 8.
Bak, T., Burg, T., Nowotny, J. and Blennerhassett, P. (2007), 'Electrical conductivity and thermoelectric power of CaTiO3 at n-p transition', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 4.
Nowotny, M., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2006), 'Electrical Properties and Defect Chemistry of TiO2 Single Crystal. IV. Prolonged Oxidation Kinetics and Chemical Diffusion', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B: Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces & Biophysical, 7.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2006), 'TiO2 Surface Active Sites for Water Splitting', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B: Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces & Biophysical, 4.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2006), 'Defect Disorder of Titanium Dioxide', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B: Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces & Biophysical, 8.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2006), 'Chemical diffusion in metal oxides. Example of TiO2', Ionics: international journal of ionics, 17.
Bak, T., Nowotny, J., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2006), 'Reactivity at the oxygen/titania interface and the related charge transfer', Ionics: international journal of ionics, 5.
Nowotny, M., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2006), 'Electrical Properties and Defect Chemistry of TiO2 Single Crystal. I. Electrical Conductivity', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B: Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces & Biophysical, 13.
Nowotny, M., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2006), 'Electrical Properties and Defect Chemistry of TiO2 Single Crystal. II. Thermoelectric Power', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B: Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces & Biophysical, 9.
Nowotny, M., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2006), 'Electrical Properties and Defect Chemistry of TiO2 Single Crystal. III. Equilibration Kinetics and Chemical Diffusion', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B: Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces & Biophysical, 9.
Sheppard, L., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2006), 'Electrical Properties of Niobium-Doped Titanium Dioxide. I. Defect Disorder', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B: Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces & Biophysical, 8.
Sheppard, L., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2006), 'Electrical Properties of Niobium-Doped Titanium Dioxide. II. Equilibration Kinetics', The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B: Condensed Matter, Materials, Surfaces, Interfaces & Biophysical, 7.
Sheppard, L., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2006), 'Metallic TiO2', Physica Status Solidi. A: Applications and Materials, .
Sheppard, L., Barnes, M., Kumar, S., Gerson, A., Ball, C., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. and Sorrell, C. (2006), 'Effect of Nb on the Structure of TiO2 Thin Films', Thin Solid Films, 6.
Nowotny, M., Bak, T., Nowotny, J. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Titanium Vacancies in Nonstoichiometric TiO2 Single Crystal', Physica Status Solidi. B: Basic Research, .
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Equilibration Kinetics of TiO2 Single Crystal at Elevated Temperatures', Physica Status Solidi. B: Basic Research, .
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Charge Transfer at the Oxygen/Zirconia Interface at Elevated Temperatures, Part 1: Basic Properties and Terms', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 7.
Nowotny, J., Sorrell, C., Sheppard, L. and Bak, T. (2005), 'Solar-hydrogen: Environmentally safe fuel for the future', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 24.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Charge transfer at oxygen/zirconia interface at elevated temperatures Part 2: Oxidation of zirconia', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 11.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Charge transfer at oxygen/zirconia interface at elevated temperatures Part 3: Segregation induced interface properties', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 9.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Charge transfer at oxygen/zirconia interface at elevated temperatures Part 4: Work function v. defect chemistry', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 7.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Charge transfer at oxygen/zirconia interface at elevated temperatures Part 5: Reactivity models', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 7.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Charge transfer at oxygen/zirconia interface at elevated temperatures Part 6: Work function measurements', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 7.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Charge transfer at oxygen/zirconia interface at elevated temperatures Part 7: Effect of surface processing', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 5.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Charge transfer at oxygen/zirconia interface at elevated temperatures Part 8: Effect of temperature', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 6.
Nowotny, M., Bak, T., Nowotny, J., Sorrell, C., Prince, K. and Kang, S. (2005), 'Charge transfer at oxygen/zirconia interface at elevated temperatures Part 9: Room temperature', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 8.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Charge transfer at oxygen/zirconia interface at elevated temperatures Part 10: Effect of platinum', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 9.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Charge transfer at oxygen/zirconia interface at elevated temperatures Part 11: Effect of surface doping with calcium', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 6.
Nowotny, J., Bak, T. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Charge transfer at oxygen/zirconia interface at elevated temperatures Part 12: Summary', Advances in Applied Ceramics, 3.
Yamawaki, M., Bak, T., Nowotny, M., Nowotny, J. and Sorrell, C. (2005), 'Application of the high-temperature Kelvin probe for in situ monitoring of the charge transfer at the oxygen/zirconia interface. Oxygen chemisorption isobar', Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 7.
Nowotny, J., Sorrell, C., Bak, T. and Sheppard, L. (2005), 'Solar-hydrogen: Unresolved problems in solid-state science', Solar Energy, 10.
Nowotny, J., Sorrell, C. and Bak, T. (2005), 'Segregation in zirconia: Equilibrium versus non-equilibrium segregation', Surface and Interface Analysis, 9.
Bak, T., Burg, T., Kang, S., Nowotny, J., Rekas, M., Sheppard, L., Sorrell, C. and + 3 Externals, . (2003), 'Charge Transport in Polycrystalline Titanium Dioxide', Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 7.
Bak, T., Nowotny, J., Rekas, M. and Sorrell, C. (2002), 'Photo-electrochemical hydrogen generation from water using solar energy. Materials-related aspects', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 32.
Bak, T., Nowotny, J., Rekas, M. and Sorrell, C. (2002), 'Photo-electrochemical properties of the TiO2-Pt system in aqueous solutions', International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 8.

Conference Papers

Nowotny, M., Bak, T. and Nowotny, J. (2006), 'Defect Disorder and Semiconducting Properties of Titanium Dioxide Single Crystal', Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering: Solar hydrogen and nanotechnology. Conference, .
Nowotny, J., Bak, T., Nowotny, M. and Sheppard, L. (2006), 'Application of Defect Chemistry for Engineering of Photosensitive Oxide Semiconductors', Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering: Solar hydrogen and nanotechnology. Conference, .
Sheppard, L., Bak, T., Atanacio, T., Nowotny, J. and Prince, K. (2006), 'Effect of Niobium Segregation on the Surface Properties of Titanium Dioxide', Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering: Solar hydrogen and nanotechnology. Conference, .

Research

Previous Projects

Title:	P-Type Titanium Dioxide for Hydrogen Generation from Water using Solar Energy
Years:	2008-08-18 - 2008-12-31
ID:	P00016500
UWS Researchers:	Tad Bak and Janusz Nowotny
Funding:	Australian Research Council (ACRG)