Mirrored carbon-spirals have been produced from pressured ferrocene via the bilateral extrusion of the spiral pairs from an iron core. A parametric plot of the surface geometry displays the fractal growth of the conical helix made with the logarithmic spiral. Electron microscopy studies show the core is a crystalline cementite which grows and transforms its shape from spherical to biconical as ...

Successful synthesis of the stable metal-free two-dimensional polymer graphitic carbon-nitride with remarkable properties has made it as one of the most promising nanostructures in many novel nanodevices, especially photocatalytic ones. Understanding the mechanical properties of nanostructures is of crucial importance. Thus, this study employs density functional theory (DFT) to obtain the mecha...

A novel approach to fabricate highly graphitic carbon nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), metal/graphitic-shell nanocrystals and hollow carbon nanospheres (HCNSs) in a very short time is demonstrated.

The present research reports the synthesis of poly-N-isopropylacrylamide / mesoporous carbon composites, prepared by radical polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide inside mesoporous carbon pores functionalized with carboxylic groups. The deposition of poly-N-isopropylacrylamide on mesoporous carbon was confirmed by FT-IR spectroscopy, TEM, N2-sorption measurements. The mesoporous carbon materi...

ordered mesoporous carbon cmk-3 (omc) have been synthesized using mesoporous sba-15 silica as template and modified with cobalt carbonate. morphologies and surface texturing of materials werecharacterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem) and n2 adsorption-desorptionisotherms. the cobalt modified ordered mesoporous carbon were found to have a surface area of 490.06m...

Here we construct mechanically flexible and optically transparent thin film solid state supercapacitors by assembling nano-engineered carbon electrodes, prepared in porous templates, with morphology of interconnected arrays of complex shapes and porosity. The highly textured graphitic films act as electrode and current collector and integrated with solid polymer electrolyte, function as thin fi...

We report a simple method of fabricating graphite nanoribbons by utilizing a self-collapsing mechanism of multi-walled carbon nanotubes during their growth. In the growth process, a nanotube is expelled from a γ-Fe seed nanoparticle, and then collapses spontaneously forming a nanoribbon. Our microscopic analysis of the structures and crystal orientations of γ-Fe nanoparticles and graphite nanor...

Owing to the unique electronic properties, high electrical conductivity, and adsorption capacity of graphitic mesoporous carbon (GMC), a simple strategy was developed alter surface glassy electrodes with thin layer GMC. These modified were applied detect bisphenol A (BPA) in wastewater samples due strong attraction between GMC-modified BPA. Electrochemical BPA sensing processes evaluated using ...

To achieve high efficiency lithium ion batteries (LIBs), an effective active material is important. In this regard, monodisperse mesoporous titania beads (MMTBs) featuring well interconnected nanoparticles were synthesised, and their mesoporous properties were tuned to study how these affect the electrochemical performance in LIBs. Two pore diameters of 15 and 25 nm, three bead diameters of 360...

The tubule formation process from amorphous carbon nanowires under high-bias-caused Joule heating was observed in real time in a high-resolution transmission electron microscope. The crystallization of the amorphous carbon nanowires occurred in two distinct ways: the formation of tubular graphitic basal planes parallel to the nanowire axis on the surface and the formation of nano-onions in the ...