The structure and properties of nano-carbon materials formed in explosives detonation are always a challenge, not only for the designing manufacturing these but also clearly understanding performance explosives. Herein, we study dynamic evolution process condensed-phase carbon involved 2,4,6-Triamino-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene (TATB) using quantum-based molecular dynamics method. Various structures ...

Since the initial research leading to the production of diamond composite materials, there have been several important developments leading to significant improvements in the properties of these superhard composite materials. Apart from the fact that diamonds, whether originating from natural resources or synthesised commercially, are the hardest and most wear-resistant materials commonly avail...

The photocatalytic degradation of Diamond green B, a triarylmethane dye, has been investigated in aqueous heterogeneous solutions containing TiO2 nano- particles as photocatalysts. The factors effective on the degradation of Diamond green B, such as the amount of catalyst, the original concentration of dye, the effect of pH and illumination time were investigated under 400 W high pressure mercu...

PURPOSE The objective of the present investigation was to evaluate the morphologic characteristics of self-assemblies of diamond (nano-D), silver (nano-Ag), gold (nano-Au), and platinum (nano-Pt) nanoparticles with Staphylococcus aureus (bacteria) and Candida albicans (fungi), to determine the possibility of constructing microorganism-nanoparticle vehicles. METHODS Hydrocolloids of individual...

Centre Of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF), Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China c Functional Nano & Soft Materials Laboratory (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China d Laboratory of Optoelectronic Functional Mate...

We report on storage of Very Cold Neutrons (VCN) in a trap with walls containing powder of diamond nanoparticles. The efficient VCN reflection is provided by multiple diffusive elastic scattering of VCN at single nanoparticles in powder. The VCN storage times are sufficiently long for accumulating large density of neutrons with complete VCN energy range of up to a few times 10 eV. Methods for f...