By simply supporting carbon nanotubes with a metal substrate of a redox potential lower than that of the metal ions to be reduced into nanoparticles, we have developed a facile yet versatile and effective substrate-enhanced electroless deposition (SEED) method for functionalizing nanotubes with a large variety of metal nanoparticles, including those otherwise impossible by more conventional ele...

Microfluidics based cell culture applications have facilitated the study of cellular dynamics at the single entity level. Yet, long term versions of such applications in a static framework suffer from the fast exhaustion of available oxygen, dissolved in the limited media volume available per cell, within the microconfined environment. In order to circumvent such drawbacks, we have improvised a...

We investigate the adsorption process of an organic biomolecule (chitosan) on epoxy-functionalized graphene using ab-initio density functional methods incorporating van-der-waals (vdW) interactions. The role of London dispersion force on the cohesive energy and conformal preference of the molecule is quantitatively elucidated. Functionalizing graphene with epoxy leads to weak hydrogen-bond inte...

This review summarizes the results of research published in recent decades on main directions functionalization fibrous materials using surface modification. Methods for thepreliminary activation are described, allowing increasing adhesion modifiers. The features formation functionalizing coatings comparison with other substrates analyzed. Some specific methods evaluating effectiveness modifica...

Polyacid-functionalized inorganic mesoporous materials have attracted considerable interest as catalysts, permselective molecular sieves, or drug carriers. Despite the great interest, their synthesis into ordered mesostructures incorporating polyacids densely and homogeneously distributed in mesopores is a challenge. Moreover, properties conductors for energy applications remain completely unex...