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Novel Graphene Structures: Substantial Capacity Enhancement in Lithium Batteries

Paronyan T.M., Thapa A.K., Sherihy A., Jasinski J.B., Dilip Jangam S.J., University of Louisville, US

Development of high capacity rechargeable battery anode would significantly improve the advanced energy technologies and enhance the energy efficiency of many economic markets, particularly electric grid storages and renewables. Recently, major research has been directed [...]

Graphene oxide/vinyl ester resin nanocomposite: the effect of graphene oxide, curing kinetics, mechanical properties and thermal stability

Arabli V., Aghili A., Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, IR

Graphene oxide (GO) was synthesized and nanocomposite was achieved using different contents of the GO and Vinyl Ester Resin (VE). The suspension was sonicated in order to prevent the agglomeration. Non-isothermal differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) [...]

Structure determination of silicene nanoribbons on Ag(110)

Espeter P., Keutner C., Kleimeier N.F., Roese P., Shamout K., Wenzel G., Berges U., Zacharias H., Westphal C., TU Dortmund, DE

Since the discovery of graphene much interest came up in the graphene analoga from the carbon group. One of the most famous representatives is silicene. Silicene is known to crystallize in different configurations, depending on [...]

Two-Dimensional Nanoporous Silicates and Their Potential Applications

Zhong J.Q., Kestell J., Akter N., Kim T., Wang M., Lu D., Galuskina I., Stacchiola D.J., Boscoboinik J.A., Brookhaven National Laboratory, US

Ultra-thin two-dimensional inorganic nanoporous silicates have been recently synthesized. They are as thin as 0.5 nm, can be produced in the form of ordered structures or glasses and doped with other elements, such as aluminum. [...]

Mass Production of Graphene and Magnetic Nanoparticle in Arc Discharge Plasma and their Potential Biological Applications

Fang X., The George Washington University, US

Nowadays, mass production of high quality Graphene Platelet Networks (GPNs) and Magnetic Nanoparticles (MNs) are highly requested due to their wide range of applications such as flexible electronics, high-frequency transistors, energy storage, and biomedical applications. [...]

From Self-assembled Brominated Diphenylacetylene Molecules to On-surface Organic Nanowires

Sedona F., Seyyed Fakhrabadi M.M., Sambi M., Università Degli Studi di Padova, IT

Fabrication of nanomaterials is one of the pivotal challenges that researchers endeavor to find novel techniques for them. Due to the inherent and practical limitations of top-down techniques frequently applied to fabricate nanosystems, scientists try [...]

Toward Engineering Fluorescent nanodiamonds

Zapata T., Bennett N., Hemmer P., Fei Y., Struzhkin V., Jelezko F., Texas A&M University, US

We have grown nanodiamonds (NDs) with Silicon vacancy (SiV) and Nitrogen vacancy (NV) color centers starting from the organic precursor Adamantane in a diamond anvil cell (DAC) using both resistive and laser heating methods. High [...]

Kinetics study of carbon nanotube alignment under shear force via real-time polarized Raman spectroscopy

He Y., Taub A.I., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, US

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been studied extensively since their discovery by Iijima in 1991. They have a unique quasi one-dimensional nanoscale structure with remarkable mechanical, electrical and thermal properties. Numerous investigations have been done on [...]

Laser Annealing Nanoscale Carbons: Material Transformations

Vander Wal R., Abrahamson J., Gaddam C., Penn State University, US

Laser processing of materials is not new, but using lasers to anneal, bond and otherwise transform carbons is. Fundamental understanding of the dependence upon carbon structure, morphology and chemistry is critical to implementing this technology [...]

Artificial Bacteriophage for Anticancer Drug Delivery

Velasco-Medina J., Espinosa-Duran J.M., Arce-Clavijo J.C., UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE, CO

In this work, we present a new nanodevice, called artificial bacteriophage, name inspired in the Bacteriophage T4. The nanodevice is made up of two carbon nanostructures and molecular bioreceptors: 1) the nanocontainer, made of fullerenes [...]