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Coverdesign by Stefania Masuino
Esteban García-Tamayo was born on November 23 1985 in Medellín, Colombia. He is a craft-beer passionate, frustrated futsal player, avid traveller and reader. He studied Engineering Physics at EAFIT University, Medellín, where he graduated in 2010. During the period of his
his studies he did research in the fields of (nano) materials science at different laboratories in Colombia (Applied Electromagnetism, EAFIT), México (CFATA, UNAM), Argentina (CAB, CNEA) and The Netherlands (NSM,TU Delft).Itwas in The Netherlands where he decided to continue his
his graduate studies and he started his PhD, in the fallof2009,atthe group ofDr.Erik KelderatDelftUniversity ofTechnology.
The work presented here collects four years of research and data, assembled in this book which is his doctorate dissertation.
Salarde Uyuni,Bolivia,March 2013 High aspectratio
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Cross section SEM images ofthe electrosprayed layers deposited on 3D architectured current collectors:
"Electrospray has been used for the
production of thin layers of materials for
battery electrodes on different substrates,
including 3D textured currentcollectors.The
synthesis, deposition and film formation
occurin a one-step process.This technique
opens the opportunity to control the
morphology
morphology of a layer by tuning the
