Anode materials play an important role in determining the performance of lithium ion batteries. In experiment, graphene (GR)/metal oxide (MO) composites possess excellent electrochemical properties and are promising anode materials. Here we perform density functional theory calculations to explore the interfacial interaction between GR and MO. Our result reveals generally weak physical interact...

This review summarizes the current state of polymer composites used as dielectric materials for energy storage. The particular focus is on materials: polymers serving as the matrix, inorganic fillers used to increase the effective dielectric constant, and various recent investigations of functionalization of metal oxide fillers to improve compatibility with polymers. We review the recent litera...

A theory model was established to calculate the magnetoelectric voltage coefficient of piezoelectric/piezomagnetic laminated composites on silicon or magnesium oxide substrates. The magnetoelectric voltage coefficient is calculated as function of interface coupling factor k, volume ratio of piezoelectrics to piezomagnetic, and volume ratio of substrates to composite. It was found that the magne...

in this paper the role of super paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (spi) on platinum nanoclusters on activated carbon (pt/c) for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction was considered. four composites of pt/c and super paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles were prepared with the same total composites weight and different loading of pt/c (1.2, 0.6, 0.4 and 0.3 mg ). the composite attached ...

A commercially available aliphatic thermoplastic polyurethane formulated with a methylene bis(cyclohexyl) diisocyanate hard segment and a poly(tetramethylene oxide) soft segment and chain-extended with 1,4-butanediol was dissolved in dimethylformamide and mixed with dispersed single-walled carbon nanotubes. The properties of composites made with unfunctionalized nanotubes were compared with the...

Graphene oxide-supported polyaniline (PANI@GO) composites were synthesized by chemical oxidation and were characterized by SEM, Raman and FT-IR spectroscopy, TGA, potentiometric titrations, and XPS. The characterization indicated that PANI can be grafted onto the surface of GO nanosheets successfully. The sorption of U(VI), Eu(III), Sr(II), and Cs(I) from aqueous solutions as a function of pH a...

Nanosized metal oxides dispersed polymer composites constitute a fascinating class of polymer composite materials. Synthesis of such composite materials through solvent casting enhances the polymer synthetic technology. Solvent casting method was used to prepare Cobalt oxide (Co3O4) dispersed Poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) nano composite<span style="text-decoration: und...

Transition metal oxides and graphene composites have been widely reported in energy storage and conversion systems. However, the controllable synthesis of graphene-based nanocomposites with tunable morphologies is far less reported. In this work, we report the fabrication of V2O5 and reduced graphene oxide composites with nanosheet or nanoparticle-assembled subunits by adjusting the solvotherma...

Polystyrene-reduced graphene oxide (PSTY/RGO) composites were prepared via the in situ bulk polymerization method using two different preparation techniques. The general approach is to use microwave irradiation (MWI) to enhance the exfoliation and the dispersion of RGO nanosheets within the PSTY matrix. In the first approach, a mixture of GO and styrene monomers (STY) were polymerized using a b...

The paper describes the synthesis and characterization of polyaniline (PANI)/CrO3 composites. Samples of PANI/CrO3 composites were synthesized by chemical oxidative polymerization of aniline added with various weight % of CrO3 in the presence of ammonium persulphate as an oxidant. The samples were characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM...