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Laser processing of thin-film multilayer structures: comparison between a 3D thermal model and experimental results

  • Babak B. Naghshine and
  • Amirkianoosh Kiani

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1749–1759, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.176

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  • pattern of the cells can be controlled by laser processing of the surface which has many potential applications in biomedical engineering. As will be shown in this paper, the shape and size of these zones can be controlled by applying a thin-film layer on the surface. Altering the electrical properties of
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Published 24 Aug 2017

Process-specific mechanisms of vertically oriented graphene growth in plasmas

  • Subrata Ghosh,
  • Shyamal R. Polaki,
  • Niranjan Kumar,
  • Sankarakumar Amirthapandian,
  • Mohamed Kamruddin and
  • Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1658–1670, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.166

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  • , non-agglomerated structure, sharp edges, excellent thermal and electrical properties, thermal and electrochemical stability and ease in functionalization make VGNs promising candidates for a wide range of applications that include field emission, sensing, energy storage, metamaterials, biomedical and
  • operating pressure lead to tunable number density of vertical sheets determining the electrical properties, while the height was maintained constant. The intersheet spacing and surface area of VGNs can be controlled by the plasma power, while excess power leads to amorphization due to bombardment of more
  • increased intersheet spacing between VGNs. The contact angle is found to vary from 127° to 134° for the other studied samples. The improvement in hydrophobicity is significant and can be considered for many useful applications. Electrical properties The sheet resistance of VGNs was measured to study their
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Published 10 Aug 2017

Group-13 and group-15 doping of germanane

  • Nicholas D. Cultrara,
  • Maxx Q. Arguilla,
  • Shishi Jiang,
  • Chuanchuan Sun,
  • Michael R. Scudder,
  • R. Dominic Ross and
  • Joshua E. Goldberger

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1642–1648, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.164

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  • glovebox and using an attenuated total internal reflection (ATR) sample geometry. Electrical properties were measured in top-contact device geometry, where metal contacts were first deposited via e-beam deposition using a shadow mask resulting in a 25 µm channel length. The contact metals used for undoped
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Published 09 Aug 2017

Two-dimensional carbon-based nanocomposites for photocatalytic energy generation and environmental remediation applications

  • Suneel Kumar,
  • Ashish Kumar,
  • Ashish Bahuguna,
  • Vipul Sharma and
  • Venkata Krishnan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1571–1600, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.159

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Published 03 Aug 2017

Parylene C as a versatile dielectric material for organic field-effect transistors

  • Tomasz Marszalek,
  • Maciej Gazicki-Lipman and
  • Jacek Ulanski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1532–1545, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.155

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  • the results obtained for bent transistors, that the encapsulation layer substantially improves mechanical properties of the devices. Parylene C as a gate insulating layer The purity of thin dielectric films has a tremendous impact on their electrical properties. Results of electrical breakdown voltage
  • measurements on a 2 mm × 2 mm area capacitor structures equipped with a dielectric layer of Parylene C are presented in Figure 6. The measurements in Figure 6 reveal the excellent electrical properties of Parylene C layers, particularly in terms of their dielectric strength. An additional advantage of these
  • deposition on a rough dielectric surface. Interestingly enough, electrical properties of such a structure stabilize at the same film thickness as it does when a smooth substrate is used [46]. This suggests that the device performance will not be impaired by surface roughness as long as a conformal deposition
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Published 28 Jul 2017

Light-induced magnetoresistance in solution-processed planar hybrid devices measured under ambient conditions

  • Sreetama Banerjee,
  • Daniel Bülz,
  • Danny Reuter,
  • Karla Hiller,
  • Dietrich R. T. Zahn and
  • Georgeta Salvan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1502–1507, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.150

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  • Information File 1) a drastic change in the line shape compared to the TIPS-pentacene transistor prepared from water-free solution. This experiment shows that TIPS-pentacene, despite of its solution processability in non-polar solvents, exhibits a degradation in electrical properties upon water incorporation
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Published 21 Jul 2017

Growth, structure and stability of sputter-deposited MoS2 thin films

  • Reinhard Kaindl,
  • Bernhard C. Bayer,
  • Roland Resel,
  • Thomas Müller,
  • Viera Skakalova,
  • Gerlinde Habler,
  • Rainer Abart,
  • Alexey S. Cherevan,
  • Dominik Eder,
  • Maxime Blatter,
  • Fabian Fischer,
  • Jannik C. Meyer,
  • Dmitry K. Polyushkin and
  • Wolfgang Waldhauser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1115–1126, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.113

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  • , independent of deposition temperature. Possible reasons for these unusual electrical properties of our PVD MoS2 thin films are discussed. A potential application for such conductive nanostructured MoS2 films could be as catalytically active electrodes in (photo-)electrocatalysis and initial electrochemical
  • ≈10 to ≈1000 nm which were deposited by magnetron sputter deposition onto SiO2-coated silicon (Si) wafers and reticulated vitreous carbon (RVC) electrodes for water electrolysis. Surface morphology, structure, chemical composition, stability and electrical properties of MoS2 thin films deposited at
  • exposed to visible light radiation and local temperature increase. Electrical properties of MoS2 thin films In order to investigate the electrical properties of our PVD MoS2 films on the SiO2-covered Si substrates two types of FET devices with rectangular and circular source and drain contacts were
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Published 22 May 2017

Fully scalable one-pot method for the production of phosphonic graphene derivatives

  • Kamila Żelechowska,
  • Marta Prześniak-Welenc,
  • Marcin Łapiński,
  • Izabela Kondratowicz and
  • Tadeusz Miruszewski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1094–1103, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.111

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  • the usage of GO-P as flame retardant, similarly as was reported by Kim et al. [4]. Finally, a measurement of the electrical properties of GO-P materials was carried out. Before reduction, the GO layers exhibited insulating behavior, with a resistivity higher than 106 Ω·cm. The temperature-dependent
  • to obtain the graphene-type material with comparable electrical properties without additional reduction processes, such as thermal reduction. Moreover, the activation energy calculated from the slope of the plotted line in Figure 10 is equal to 0.014 eV. The reported values for different graphene
  • first derivatives of TGA and DSC, denoted as DTG and DDSC, respectively, were calculated using Netzsch Proteus Thermal Analysis program. In order to investigate the electrical properties of obtained GO structures, the total surface conductivity (σ) was measured by a conventional DC four-wire method with
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Published 18 May 2017

Synthesis of graphene–transition metal oxide hybrid nanoparticles and their application in various fields

  • Arpita Jana,
  • Elke Scheer and
  • Sebastian Polarz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 688–714, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.74

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  • and electrical properties. It has been used as a heterogeneous photocatalyst and it has outstanding advantages because of its low cost, scalability, nontoxicity, strong photo-oxidising power and stability in oxidative and acidic environments [78]. Extensive research on TiO2 nanomaterials has shown
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Published 24 Mar 2017

Gas sensing properties of MWCNT layers electrochemically decorated with Au and Pd nanoparticles

  • Elena Dilonardo,
  • Michele Penza,
  • Marco Alvisi,
  • Riccardo Rossi,
  • Gennaro Cassano,
  • Cinzia Di Franco,
  • Francesco Palmisano,
  • Luisa Torsi and
  • Nicola Cioffi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 592–603, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.64

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  • accelerate the surface reaction and the electron exchange between analyte and CNTs. Moreover, small gas molecules can strongly bond to transition metals thanks to their electronic structure and empty orbitals [17]. Therefore, CNTs decorated with metal NPs can improve the electrical properties and sensitivity
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Published 10 Mar 2017

Analysis and modification of defective surface aggregates on PCDTBT:PCBM solar cell blends using combined Kelvin probe, conductive and bimodal atomic force microscopy

  • Hanaul Noh,
  • Alfredo J. Diaz and
  • Santiago D. Solares

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 579–589, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.62

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  • solvent used in the fabrication process (chlorobenzene or dichlorobenzene). We characterize the spatial and electrical properties of the aggregates, and show that the structures are clusters of thin molecular layers exhibiting hole-blocking properties, which can affect charge transport efficiency at the
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Published 08 Mar 2017

Advances in the fabrication of graphene transistors on flexible substrates

  • Gabriele Fisichella,
  • Stella Lo Verso,
  • Silvestra Di Marco,
  • Vincenzo Vinciguerra,
  • Emanuela Schilirò,
  • Salvatore Di Franco,
  • Raffaella Lo Nigro,
  • Fabrizio Roccaforte,
  • Amaia Zurutuza,
  • Alba Centeno,
  • Sebastiano Ravesi and
  • Filippo Giannazzo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 467–474, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.50

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  • Primosole 50, 95121 Catania, Italy Graphenea, Tolosa Hiribidea 76, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain 10.3762/bjnano.8.50 Abstract Graphene is an ideal candidate for next generation applications as a transparent electrode for electronics on plastic due to its flexibility and the conservation of electrical
  • properties upon deformation. More importantly, its field-effect tunable carrier density, high mobility and saturation velocity make it an appealing choice as a channel material for field-effect transistors (FETs) for several potential applications. As an example, properly designed and scaled graphene FETs
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Published 20 Feb 2017

Nanoscale isoindigo-carriers: self-assembly and tunable properties

  • Tatiana N. Pashirova,
  • Andrei V. Bogdanov,
  • Lenar I. Musin,
  • Julia K. Voronina,
  • Irek R. Nizameev,
  • Marsil K. Kadirov,
  • Vladimir F. Mironov,
  • Lucia Ya. Zakharova,
  • Shamil K. Latypov and
  • Oleg G. Sinyashin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 313–324, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.34

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  • electrical properties [1][2][3][4][5]. This makes possible to develop new technologies for biodiagnostics, biomedical applications, including photothermal therapy [6][7][8], study of biomembranes [9] and dynamically probing cells [10][11]. (ii) These heterocyclic compounds found applications in various
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Published 01 Feb 2017

Impact of contact resistance on the electrical properties of MoS2 transistors at practical operating temperatures

  • Filippo Giannazzo,
  • Gabriele Fisichella,
  • Aurora Piazza,
  • Salvatore Di Franco,
  • Giuseppe Greco,
  • Simonpietro Agnello and
  • Fabrizio Roccaforte

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 254–263, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.28

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  • , RC, can also have a significant influence on the electrical properties of the device in the on-state, i.e., above the threshold voltage (Vth). In particular, RC is expected to affect, to some extent, the values of Vth and of the field effect mobility μ extracted from the transfer characteristics
  • substrate covered with 380 nm thick, thermally grown SiO2. Such relatively thick MoS2 samples have been chosen since it has been reported that the electrical properties (μ, Vth) of simple back-gated transistors fabricated with multilayer MoS2 are much less affected by the effect of the external environment
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Published 25 Jan 2017

Nitrogen-doped twisted graphene grown on copper by atmospheric pressure CVD from a decane precursor

  • Ivan V. Komissarov,
  • Nikolai G. Kovalchuk,
  • Vladimir A. Labunov,
  • Ksenia V. Girel,
  • Olga V. Korolik,
  • Mikhail S. Tivanov,
  • Algirdas Lazauskas,
  • Mindaugas Andrulevičius,
  • Tomas Tamulevičius,
  • Viktoras Grigaliūnas,
  • Šarunas Meškinis,
  • Sigitas Tamulevičius and
  • Serghej L. Prischepa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 145–158, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.15

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  • information about structural and electrical properties of graphene. For example, the analysis of the line shape of the 2D band along with its spectral position can provide important information about the number of layers in graphene and the interlayer interaction [26]. From the G-band position, the carrier
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Published 16 Jan 2017

Nanocrystalline TiO2/SnO2 heterostructures for gas sensing

  • Barbara Lyson-Sypien,
  • Anna Kusior,
  • Mieczylaw Rekas,
  • Jan Zukrowski,
  • Marta Gajewska,
  • Katarzyna Michalow-Mauke,
  • Thomas Graule,
  • Marta Radecka and
  • Katarzyna Zakrzewska

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 108–122, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.12

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  • , electrical properties, H2 sensing behavior and the power-law nature of the electrical resistance of TiO2/SnO2 heterostructures is presented. The influence of water adsorption and desorption on the electrical properties of TiO2/SnO2 is also taken into account. The detection threshold is studied for the first
  • scanning electron microscopy (SEM) performed with a FEI Nova Nano SEM 200 apparatus. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) images were obtained using a FEI Tecnai TF 20 X-TWIN microscope. Mapping of chemical elements and diffraction patterns were provided. The electrical properties were
  • electrical properties of TiO2/SnO2, impedance spectroscopy was applied. Figure 8 presents: a) the impedance spectra obtained at 400 °C as well as the electrical resistance as a function of the temperature for: b) 90 mol % SnO2/10 mol % TiO2 and c) 10 mol % SnO2/90 mol % TiO2. The impedance spectra (IS) in
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Published 12 Jan 2017

Graphene–polymer coating for the realization of strain sensors

  • Carmela Bonavolontà,
  • Carla Aramo,
  • Massimo Valentino,
  • Giampiero Pepe,
  • Sergio De Nicola,
  • Gianfranco Carotenuto,
  • Angela Longo,
  • Mariano Palomba,
  • Simone Boccardi and
  • Carosena Meola

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 21–27, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.3

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  • spectroscopy; strain sensor; Introduction Many materials have been proposed for strain sensing applications including metals, silicon, carbon nanotubes and graphene. The unique thermal, mechanical and electrical properties of graphene [1] have inspired new and appealing applications in different fields. Its
  • . The effect of the bending on the electrical properties of the PMMA/graphene compound were investigated by measuring the current–voltage (I–V) using the electrical connection shown Figure 4. The measurement was performed in presence of a voltage of 5 V. Figure 6 reports the results of the current
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Published 03 Jan 2017

Ferromagnetic behaviour of ZnO: the role of grain boundaries

  • Boris B. Straumal,
  • Svetlana G. Protasova,
  • Andrei A. Mazilkin,
  • Eberhard Goering,
  • Gisela Schütz,
  • Petr B. Straumal and
  • Brigitte Baretzky

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1936–1947, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.185

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  • future spintronic applications. The ferromagnetism (FM) opens a way to change the optical and/or electrical properties of such a material by applying an external (permanent or alternating) magnetic field. And vice versa, by applying an external (permanent or alternating) electric field one could
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Published 07 Dec 2016

A new approach to grain boundary engineering for nanocrystalline materials

  • Shigeaki Kobayashi,
  • Sadahiro Tsurekawa and
  • Tadao Watanabe

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1829–1849, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.176

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  • ) [127]. Nakamichi and Kino [124] have found from their systematic studies that low-energy/low-Σ CSL boundaries exhibit lower electrical resistivity than that of high-energy/random boundaries. Recent observations of electrical properties in silicon have revealed the dominant effects of the character of
  • lattice dislocations becomes finer, decreasing with increasing misorientation angle [124]. We may conclude that a new approach to GBE based on the fractal analysis of GB microstructure is useful for precise control and improvement of electrical properties in nanocrystalline gold thin films. A historical
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Published 25 Nov 2016

Monolayer graphene/SiC Schottky barrier diodes with improved barrier height uniformity as a sensing platform for the detection of heavy metals

  • Ivan Shtepliuk,
  • Jens Eriksson,
  • Volodymyr Khranovskyy,
  • Tihomir Iakimov,
  • Anita Lloyd Spetz and
  • Rositsa Yakimova

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1800–1814, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.173

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  • of the measurements of the electrical properties of graphene/SiC Schottky diodes are listed in Table 1. From Table 1 we can see that the main parameters of the graphene/SiC junctions strongly depend on the growth method, the substrate doping, the SiC polytype and the graphene thickness. Furthermore
  • to extract the Schottky barrier height value, ideality factor, saturation current and series resistance. In addition, we investigated the electrical properties of the fabricated structure in the simple-resistor regime. In other words, we measured the current–voltage characteristics of the graphene
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Published 22 Nov 2016

Nanostructured TiO2-based gas sensors with enhanced sensitivity to reducing gases

  • Wojciech Maziarz,
  • Anna Kusior and
  • Anita Trenczek-Zajac

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1718–1726, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.164

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  • stoichiometry of the oxygen-to-titanium content ratio play a major role in the electrical properties of TiO2 [17]. Different ways in which TiO2 can be prepared include sol–gel process [18][19][20], flame spray synthesis [21], hydrothermal process [22], electrospinning methods [23], chemical and physical vapor
  • the semiconductor/gas interface [7][35]. What is even more interesting is that titanium dioxide in the form of nanoflowers, both unmodified and sensitized by SnO2 nanoparticles can exhibit different electrical properties under various gaseous conditions. According to the literature [26][32][36][37][38
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Published 15 Nov 2016

Scanning probe microscopy studies on the adsorption of selected molecular dyes on titania

  • Jakub S. Prauzner-Bechcicki,
  • Lukasz Zajac,
  • Piotr Olszowski,
  • Res Jöhr,
  • Antoine Hinaut,
  • Thilo Glatzel,
  • Bartosz Such,
  • Ernst Meyer and
  • Marek Szymonski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1642–1653, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.156

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  • determinants, but some of them still play a pivotal role. Second, once the molecular layers are obtained, one may try to seek for correlations between the morphology of the layer and the electrical properties of the junction. An interesting issue is the evolution of excited charge carriers in the molecular
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Published 09 Nov 2016

Nanostructured germanium deposited on heated substrates with enhanced photoelectric properties

  • Ionel Stavarache,
  • Valentin Adrian Maraloiu,
  • Petronela Prepelita and
  • Gheorghe Iordache

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1492–1500, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.142

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  • test structure. The obtained photoresponse gain is attributed mainly to the Ge-nps packed into the SiO2 matrix and to the conditions during sample preparation, showing the direct connection between synthesis and opto-electrical properties of the nanostructures. The structures, investigated at room
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Published 21 Oct 2016

Fabrication and characterization of branched carbon nanostructures

  • Sharali Malik,
  • Yoshihiro Nemoto,
  • Hongxuan Guo,
  • Katsuhiko Ariga and
  • Jonathan P. Hill

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1260–1266, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.116

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  • electronic properties, it is well known that in carbon nanotube networks the junction resistance controls the overall performance [17]. Therefore, in addition to b-MWCNTs/composite applications, the enhanced electrical properties of networks arising within this new material has major potential benefits for
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Published 05 Sep 2016

Reasons and remedies for the agglomeration of multilayered graphene and carbon nanotubes in polymers

  • Rasheed Atif and
  • Fawad Inam

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1174–1196, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.109

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  • for both current and prospective researchers in the field of MLG- and CNT-based polymer nanocomposites to achieve maximum enhancement in mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties of produced polymer nanocomposites. Keywords: agglomeration; carbon nanotubes (CNTs); dispersion state; multilayered
  • electrical properties of produced polymer nanocomposites. Review Graphene Graphene, a two-dimensional densely packed honey-comb crystal lattice made of carbon atoms, has revolutionized the scientific parlance due to its exceptional physical, electrical, and chemical properties. Graphene, which is now found
  • polymer matrix composites (PMC) and has shown to yield significant improvements in different (mechanical, thermal, and electrical) properties of the produced nanocomposites [6][7][8][9]. Graphene exhibits a honeycomb lattice, the sp2 bonding of which is much stronger than the sp3-bonding found in diamond
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Published 12 Aug 2016
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