The photo-thermal therapy using nano-materials has attracted great attention as an efficient strategy for the next generation of cancer treatments. Recently, photo-thermal therapy based on nano-materials that can be activated by a skin-penetrating NIR (Near Infra Red) irradiation has been suggested as a noninvasive, harmless, and highly efficient therapeutic technique. Graphene nano-layers synt...

In this paper we report the effect of the incorporation of nano-dimensional clay platelets, laponite, on the J-aggregation of a thiacyanine dye N,N'-dioctadecyl thiacyanine perchlorate (NK) assembled into Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) monolayers. pi-A isotherms and atomic force microscopic studies confirm the successful incorporation of clay platelets into the Langmuir monolayer of NK. J-aggregates of...

An explicit derivation of dispersion relations and spectra for periodic Schrödinger operators on carbon nano-structures (including graphene and all types of single-wall nano-tubes) is provided.

Graphene, a two dimensional (2D) planar and hexagonal array of carbon atoms, interacts with biological systems in different ways. Pristine graphene has been found to produce different responses as compared to its nano-composites. Graphene and its derivatives have been tested for their toxic effects on human erythrocytes, skin fibroblasts and different human cell lines including HepG2, A498, Cac...

Silver nanoparticle-decorated graphene nanocomposites were synthesized by a facile chemical reduction approach with the assistance of supercritical CO2 (ScCO2). The silver nanoparticles with diameters of 2-16 nm are uniformly distributed and firmly anchored on graphene nanosheets. The tribological properties of the as-synthesized nanocomposites as lubricant additives in engine oil were investig...

The mechanical properties of nanocomposites based on poly lactic acid/polyolefin elastomer (PLA/POE) were investigated. compounds made using an internal mixer. POE in two levels at 10–20 wt.% and nano fillers, including multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) graphene nano-platelets (GnPs) 1, 2, 3 levels, added to the PLA. Impact tensile tests conducted extract impact properties, respectively. di...

Single layer graphene nano-gaps are fabricated by applying the method of feedback-controlled electroburning to notched ribbon devices, which are plasma etched from CVD grown graphene that is wet-transferred onto pre-patterned metal electrodes. Electrical and structural characterizations show that nanometer size gaps form at the center of the notch. We have processed a total number of 1079 devic...

Technological development in latent heat storage (LHS) systems is essential for energy security and management both renewable non-renewable sources. In this article, numerical analyses on a shell-and-tube-based LHS system with coupled thermal enhancement through extended fins nano-additives are conducted to propose optimal combinations guaranteed higher discharging rate, enthalpy capacity distr...

Graphene has been envisaged as a highly promising material for various field emission devices, supercapacitors, photocatalysts, sensors, electroanalytical systems, fuel cells and photovoltaics. The main goal of our work is to develop new Pt and transparent conductive oxide (TCO) free graphene based counter electrodes (CEs) for dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). We have prepared new composites ...

Graphene-based nano-objects such as nanotrenches, nanowires, nanobelts and nanoscale superstructures have been grown by surface segregation and precipitation on carbon-doped mono- and polycrystalline nickel substrates in ultrahigh vacuum. The dominant morphologies of the nano-objects were nanowire and nanosheet. Nucleation of graphene sheets occurred at surface defects such as step edges and re...