Terminally hydroxylated polypropylene (PP) synthesized by a chain transfer method was grafted to graphene oxide (GO) at the chain end. Thus obtained PP-modified GO (PP-GO) was melt mixed with PP without the use of a compatibilizer to prepare PP/GO nanocomposites. Mechanical and electrical properties of the resultant nanocomposites and reference samples that contained graphite nanoplatelets, par...

A facile and scalable approach to synthesize silicon composite anode was developed by encapsulating Si particles via in-situ polymerization and carbonization of phloroglucinolformaldehyde gel, followed by incorporation of graphene nanoplatelets. Attributed to the improved structural integrity, a high packing density and an intimate electrical contact consolidated by the conductive networks, the...

Aerogels are commonly regarded as soft and versatile materials for multiple applications thanks to their features such elastic behavior, swelling ability responsive characteristics. In the last decades these qualities have ensured them uses in biomedical field controlled drug delivery systems scaffolds tissue engineering applications. Recently employment sensors has attracted great interest esp...

Heat flux enhancement due to utilization of graphene, graphene nanoplatelets, and oxides in water/ethylene-glycol based nanofluids over an inclined permeable cylinder is focused the present study. The governing PDE are reformulated into non-linear ODE by applying similarity expressions. A shooting procedure opted reformulate equations boundary value problems which solved employing a numerical f...

Novel products often have a multitude of nanomaterials embedded; likewise within many graphite-based are decorated with nano-zirconium oxide (nZrO2) because graphene is an ultrahigh conductive material whereas nZrO2 for instance fire-retardant. As consequence, the pristine/isolated nanoparticle has unique beneficial properties but it no longer only compound that needs to be considered in risk a...

Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) and thermal CVD of graphene films, single-domain graphene dendrites, standing graphene structures, hybrid graphene-diamond nanoplatelets, and hybrid graphite-diamond coatings and their properties and applications will be reported. Grain-boundary engineering of CVD thin-film graphene, diamond, and their hybrids allows novel functions of these nan...

The syntheses of strongly anisotropic nanocrystals with one dimension much smaller than the two others, such as nanoplatelets, are still greatly underdeveloped. Here, we demonstrate the formation of atomically flat quasi-two-dimensional colloidal CdSe, CdS and CdTe nanoplatelets with well-defined thicknesses ranging from 4 to 11 monolayers. These nanoplatelets have the electronic properties of ...

In this paper, ultra-long copper nanowires (CuNWs) were successfully synthesized at a large scale by hydrothermal reduction of divalent copper ion using oleylamine and oleic acid as dual ligands. The characteristic of CuNWs is hard and linear, which is clearly different from graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) and multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). The thermal properties and models of silicone com...