Synthesis, properties, and applications of graphene oxide/reduced graphene oxide and their nanocomposites
March 2019
Thanks to their remarkable mechanical, electrical, thermal, and barrier properties, graphene-based nanocomposites have been a hot area of research in the past decade. Because of their simple top-down...
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Some basic aspects of polymer nanocomposites: A critical review
March 2019
Polymer nanocomposites have been investigated for about three decades. To get deep insights into the modifying effects of various nanofillers on mechanical and physical properties of polymer nanocomposites,...
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Development of solid-state electrolytes for sodium-ion battery–A short review
June 2019
All-solid-state sodium-ion battery is regarded as the next generation battery to replace the current commercial lithium-ion battery, with the advantages of abundant sodium resources, low price and high-level...
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Band structure engineering in metal halide perovskite nanostructures for optoelectronic applications
December 2019
Metal halide perovskite nanostructures have emerged as low-dimensional semiconductors of great significance in many fields such as photovoltaics, photonics, and optoelectronics. Extensive efforts on...
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Seasoning Chinese cooking pans: The nanoscience behind the Kitchen God's blessing
Available online 27 June 2020
The Chinese iron pan can function as a nonstick pan even without a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) coating after a “Kitchen God blessing” seasoning process. We simulate this process and disclose the...
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Recent advances in hard carbon anodes with high initial Coulombic efficiency for sodium-ion batteries
Available online 25 February 2022
Initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE) has been widely adopted in battery research as a quantifiable indicator for the lifespan, energy density and rate performance of batteries. Hard carbon materials have...
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Recent advances in graphene and other 2D materials
March 2022
The isolation of the first two-dimensional material, graphene – a monolayer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice - opened new exciting opportunities in the field of condensed matter physics...
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Recent advances in electrocatalysts for seawater splitting
Available online 19 December 2020
Water splitting is an effective strategy to produce renewable and sustainable hydrogen energy. Especially, seawater splitting, avoiding use of the limited freshwater resource, is more intriguing. Nowadays,...
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Recent advances on 3D printing graphene-based composites
June 2019
3D printing or additive manufacturing (AM) has revolutionized the way of manufacturing by designing complex structures in a customized feature which cannot be realized by traditional processing methods....
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A comprehensive review of miniatured wind energy harvesters
June 2021
Following the current rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless condition monitoring systems, energy harvesters which use ambient energy have become a key part of achieving an energy-autonomous...
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Recent progress in flexible capacitive sensors: Structures and properties
Available online 5 January 2022
The future intelligent era that will be brought about by 5G technology can be well predicted. For example, the connection between humans and smart wearable devices will become increasingly more intimate....
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Emerging rechargeable aqueous aluminum ion battery: Status, challenges, and outlooks
September 2020
Aluminum ion battery (AIB) technology is an exciting alternative for post-lithium energy storage. AIBs based on ionic liquids have enabled advances in both cathode material development and fundamental...
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Graphene film for thermal management: A review
March 2021
Thermal conductivity and thermal dissipation are of great importance for modern electronics due to the increased transistor density and operation frequency of contemporary integrated circuits. Due to...
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SnO2 nanostructured materials used as gas sensors for the detection of hazardous and flammable gases: A review
Available online 7 July 2021
SnO2 has been extensively used in the detection of various gases. As a gas sensing material, SnO2 has excellent physical-chemical properties, high reliability, and short adsorption-desorption time....
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Synthesis of hexagonal boron nitrides by chemical vapor deposition and their use as single photon emitters
September 2021
Two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), due to its extraordinary thermal, chemical, and optical properties, has arisen as an enticing material for the research community to explore for various...
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Gas sensors based on TiO2 nanostructured materials for the detection of hazardous gases: A review
December 2021
Hazardous gases have been strongly associated with being a detriment to human life within the environment. The development of a reliable gas sensor with high response and selectivity is of great significance...
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Quantitative kinetic analysis on oxygen reduction reaction: A perspective
September 2021
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) constitutes the core process of many energy storage and conversion devices including metal–air batteries and fuel cells. However, the kinetics of ORR is very sluggish...
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Atomic layer deposition enabling higher efficiency solar cells: A review
September 2020
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) can synthesise materials with atomic-scale precision. The ability to tune the material composition, film thickness with excellent conformality, allow low-temperature processing,...
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Photoelectrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction: Fundamental, advances and challenges
December 2021
With the rising global population, increasing energy demand and rapid climate change, great concerns have been raised for environment and energy security in future. Solar-driven CO2 reduction provides...
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Recent progress in graphene-based wearable piezoresistive sensors: From 1D to 3D device geometries
Available online 4 January 2022
Electronic skin and flexible wearable devices have attracted tremendous attention in the fields of human-machine interaction, energy storage, and intelligent robots. As a prevailing flexible pressure...
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Oxygen redox chemistry in lithium-rich cathode materials for Li-ion batteries: Understanding from atomic structure to nano-engineering
Available online 1 April 2022
Lithium-rich oxide compounds have been recognized as promising cathode materials for high performance Li-ion batteries, owing to their high specific capacity. However, it remains a great challenge to...
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Applications of carbon nanomaterials in perovskite solar cells for solar energy conversion
September 2021
The energy issues and environmental concern have led to intense research activities in renewable energy conversion, such as photovoltaic (PV) to convert solar energy into electricity. Perovskite solar...
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A comparative study of 85 hyperelastic constitutive models for both unfilled rubber and highly filled rubber nanocomposite material
June 2022
Nonlinear finite element analysis is widely used for structural optimization of the design and the reliability analysis of complex elastomeric components. However, high-precision numerical results cannot...
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Lignin-based materials for electrochemical energy storage devices
Available online 18 February 2022
Lignin is the most abundant aromatic polymer in nature, which is rich in a large number of benzene ring structures and active functional groups. The molecular structure of lignin has unique designability...
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Literature review on the mechanical properties of materials after surface mechanical attrition treatment (SMAT)
March 2020
Most of the challenges experienced by many engineering materials originate from the surface which later leads to total failure, hence affecting the resultant mechanical properties and service life....
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