Pathological amyloidogenic prion proteins have a toxic effect on functional cells in the human cerebrum because of poor degradability and the tendency to accumulate in an uncontrolled manner under physiological conditions. HET-s, a fungal prion protein, is known to undergo conformational variations from fibrillar to nanosheet structures during a change from low to high pH conditions. It has bee...

Si@SiOx/grapheme nanosheet (Si@SiOx/GNS) nanocomposites as high-performance anode materials for lithium-ion batteries are prepared by mechanically blending the mixture of expanded graphite (EG) with Si nanoparticles, and characterized by Raman spectrum, X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. During ball milling process, the si...

Limited control over charge recombination between photogenerated charge carriers largely hinders the progress in photocatalysis. Here, we introduce metal nanoparticles (Cr, Ag) to the surface of MoS2 nanosheets by simple synthetic means creating a hybrid metal-MoS2 nanosheet system with well-defined metal/semiconductor interfaces. We demonstrate that this hybrid nanosheet structure is capable o...

In this study, an efficient and facile technique for preparing graphene oxide in suspension and powder forms was presented based on a modification on Hummers' method followed by an additional ultrasonic process. The method involved the provision of graphene oxide from graphite by reaction of potassium permanganate and sulfuric acid with stabilizing the medium complex. Furthermore, this study ev...

Graphene is a new class of two-dimensional carbon nanostructure, which holds great promise for the vast applications in many technological fields. It would be one of the prominent new materials for the next generation nano-electronic devices. In this paper the influence of various vacancy defects on the critical buckling load of a single-layered graphene nanosheet is investigated. The nanosheet...

As one of the most important two-dimensional (2D) materials, BN nanosheets attracted intensive interest in the past decade. Although there are many methods suitable for the preparation of BN sheets, finding a cheap and nontoxic way for their mass and high-quality production is still a challenge. Here we provide a highly effective and cheap way to synthesize gram-scale-level well-structured BN n...

This study presents a tri-layer broadband metamaterial absorber that operates in the GHz range. The was composed of polyhedral iron-cobalt alloy/graphite nanosheet material arranged flat sheet with two punched-in rings for top layer, continuous FR-4 layer at middle, and copper bottom. For normal incidence electromagnetic wave, proposed demonstrated an exceptional absorption frequency range 7.9–...

We developed a WS2 nanosheet based chemiluminescence resonance energy transfer (CRET) platform for sensing biomolecules. This platform exhibits high detection sensitivity and high specificity for target molecules.