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Structural and magnetic properties of microwave-synthesized reduced graphene oxide/VO2/Fe2O3 nanocomposite

  • Sumanta Sahoo,
  • Ankur Sood and
  • Sung Soo Han

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 921–932, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.70

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  • . Keywords: Fe2O3; magnetism; microwave irradiation; reduced graphene oxide; VO2; Introduction Graphene-based materials have been significantly explored in various fields of materials science due to their unique physical and chemical characteristics [1][2][3][4]. The special arrangement of carbon materials
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Published 20 Jun 2025

Recent advances in photothermal nanomaterials for ophthalmic applications

  • Jiayuan Zhuang,
  • Linhui Jia,
  • Chenghao Li,
  • Rui Yang,
  • Jiapeng Wang,
  • Wen-an Wang,
  • Heng Zhou and
  • Xiangxia Luo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 195–215, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.16

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  • heat (see below in Figure 2d) [57]. The presence of a high density of loosely bound electrons and the narrow energy level spacing of the π electrons endow carbon materials (such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, carbon quantum dots, and fullerenes) and polymer materials (like polydopamine, polyaniline
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Published 17 Feb 2025

TiO2 immobilized on 2D mordenite: effect of hydrolysis conditions on structural, textural, and optical characteristics of the nanocomposites

  • Marina G. Shelyapina,
  • Rosario Isidro Yocupicio-Gaxiola,
  • Gleb A. Valkovsky and
  • Vitalii Petranovskii

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 128–140, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.12

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  • immobilization of TiO2 nanoparticles is of great importance. Many materials are considered as a possible support for immobilization, including porous ceramics [15], glass [16][17], porous carbon materials [18][19], mesoporous silica [20][21][22][23], and zeolites [24][25][26][27]. Recent studies have confirmed
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Published 10 Feb 2025

Interface properties of nanostructured carbon-coated biological implants: an overview

  • Mattia Bartoli,
  • Francesca Cardano,
  • Erik Piatti,
  • Stefania Lettieri,
  • Andrea Fin and
  • Alberto Tagliaferro

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1041–1053, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.85

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  • section, we investigate the effect of carbon-based nanostructured interfaces on the mitigation of adverse effects occurring to biological implants, considering advantages and disadvantages as summarized in Table 1. Nanostructured and nanosized carbon materials: an overview The family of nanostructured
  • carbon materials has several members with peculiar properties, namely, (i) graphene-related materials, (ii) CNTs, and (iii) nanodiamonds (NDs) as shown in Figure 2. All nanosized carbon materials show remarkable properties regarding both thermal and electronic conduction, but they should be treated
  • carefully to ensure reproducible production protocols. The next section briefly overviews all nanosized carbon materials since a deep understanding of each material is of capital importance for a comprehensive understanding of their applications at biological interfaces. Graphene and graphene-related
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Published 16 Aug 2024

Simultaneous electrochemical determination of uric acid and hypoxanthine at a TiO2/graphene quantum dot-modified electrode

  • Vu Ngoc Hoang,
  • Dang Thi Ngoc Hoa,
  • Nguyen Quang Man,
  • Le Vu Truong Son,
  • Le Van Thanh Son,
  • Vo Thang Nguyen,
  • Le Thi Hong Phong,
  • Ly Hoang Diem,
  • Kieu Chan Ly,
  • Ho Sy Thang and
  • Dinh Quang Khieu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 719–732, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.60

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  • and food waste) is a renewable resource for the preparation of high-value carbon materials. Among food wastes, coffee grounds are a promising precursor to prepare GQDs with new functionalities regarding a more sustainable materials industry [16]. Considering the fields of catalysis and
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Published 20 Jun 2024

Nanoarchitectonics of photothermal materials to enhance the sensitivity of lateral flow assays

  • Elangovan Sarathkumar,
  • Rajasekharan S. Anjana and
  • Ramapurath S. Jayasree

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 988–1003, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.82

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  • material [75]. For example, nanocomposite materials have been developed by combining noble metal nanoparticles (Au–Ag, Au–Pt, and Au–Ag–Pt) or hybrids of noble metals, metals, and/or carbon materials (Au–Fe, Au–carbon, and Au–Fe–carbon). The resultant nanocomposites exhibit properties of all constituents
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Published 04 Oct 2023

Fragmentation of metal(II) bis(acetylacetonate) complexes induced by slow electrons

  • Janina Kopyra and
  • Hassan Abdoul-Carime

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 980–987, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.81

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  • . Metal bis(acetylacetonate) complexes are of interest for many thin film fabrication techniques (e.g., chemical vapor deposition [9], atomic layer epitaxy [10], or atomic layer etching [11]) and as precursors for carbon materials, such as carbon nanotubes and carbon onion particles [12], or metal oxide
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Published 26 Sep 2023

In situ magnesiothermic reduction synthesis of a Ge@C composite for high-performance lithium-ion batterie anodes

  • Ha Tran Huu,
  • Ngoc Phi Nguyen,
  • Vuong Hoang Ngo,
  • Huy Hoang Luc,
  • Minh Kha Le,
  • Minh Thu Nguyen,
  • My Loan Phung Le,
  • Hye Rim Kim,
  • In Young Kim,
  • Sung Jin Kim,
  • Van Man Tran and
  • Vien Vo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 751–761, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.62

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  • from Binh Dinh province, Vietnam. Fabrication of activated carbon from banana peel A procedure similar to our previous work [33] has been used to prepare carbon materials from banana peels. An appropriate amount of banana peels was dried at 80 °C overnight in a vacuum oven and ground into small pieces
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Published 26 Jun 2023

Metal-organic framework-based nanomaterials as opto-electrochemical sensors for the detection of antibiotics and hormones: A review

  • Akeem Adeyemi Oladipo,
  • Saba Derakhshan Oskouei and
  • Mustafa Gazi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 631–673, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.52

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  • , which lowers their electrochemical detection performance [64]. Researchers have focused on various research efforts to improve the conductivity and amplify the electrical signals of MOFs by combining them with other highly conductive materials (such as carbon materials, metal nanoparticles, or metal
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Published 01 Jun 2023

ZnO-decorated SiC@C hybrids with strong electromagnetic absorption

  • Liqun Duan,
  • Zhiqian Yang,
  • Yilu Xia,
  • Xiaoqing Dai,
  • Jian’an Wu and
  • Minqian Sun

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 565–573, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.47

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  • ]. Nevertheless, the EM absorption of most SiC-based absorbers with heterostructures is far from satisfactory [21][22][23]. In our previous work, SiC@C nanowires have been successfully obtained by surface carbonization of SiC nanowires [24]. Carbon materials are prone to bond with other dielectric or magnetic
  • is a good strategy to grow ZnO nanocrystals on the surface of SiC nanowires. The final hybrids (SiC@ZnO) showed enhanced performance, with a higher value of effective absorption bandwidth (EAB = 6.6 GHz) and lower RLmin (−42.11 dB) [16]. Growing ZnO nanocrystals on carbon materials (e.g., MWCNTs or
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Published 04 May 2023

Conjugated photothermal materials and structure design for solar steam generation

  • Chia-Yang Lin and
  • Tsuyoshi Michinobu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 454–466, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.36

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  • can be predicted by density functional theory (DFT) calculations of the conjugated structures. This is an advantage over other carbon materials, even if they are of the same chemical composition [18][19][20][21][22]. We review the recent progress in the material development of conjugated solar
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Published 04 Apr 2023

Molecular nanoarchitectonics: unification of nanotechnology and molecular/materials science

  • Katsuhiko Ariga

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 434–453, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.35

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  • both metallic and semiconducting properties. These networks have been applied to thermoelectric materials and have been found to exhibit low interplane thermal conductivity, which is not typical of carbon materials, while maintaining the interplane electrical conductivity. Müllen, Fuchs, Chi, and co
  • also be a promising strategy to construct designer nanoscale carbon materials by sequentially linking multiple monomers on a surface. It is expected to contribute to future carbon-based nanoelectronics. Junctions between molecular block units have also been reported with graphene nanoribbons
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Published 03 Apr 2023

Evaluation of electrosynthesized reduced graphene oxide–Ni/Fe/Co-based (oxy)hydroxide catalysts towards the oxygen evolution reaction

  • Karolina Cysewska,
  • Marcin Łapiński,
  • Marcin Zając,
  • Jakub Karczewski,
  • Piotr Jasiński and
  • Sebastian Molin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 420–433, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.34

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  • different kinds of conductive carbon materials [14][15][16][17][18]. Recently, graphene (Gr)/graphene oxide (GO) has attracted the attention of many researchers due to its high surface area, significant chemical stability, high electrical conductivity, and high mechanical strength [12][19]. Combining a
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Published 29 Mar 2023

A novel approach to pulsed laser deposition of platinum catalyst on carbon particles for use in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

  • Bogusław Budner,
  • Wojciech Tokarz,
  • Sławomir Dyjak,
  • Andrzej Czerwiński,
  • Bartosz Bartosewicz and
  • Bartłomiej Jankiewicz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 190–204, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.19

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  • [12][13][14]. Recently, nanoarchitectonics approaches have been used to fabricate various materials for energy-related applications, including carbon-based composites [15][16], Pt-based nanostructures and composites with carbon materials [17][18][19], and metal alloys deposited on TiO2 [20]. The most
  • narrow D and G peaks and an intense 2D band, which proves the highly graphitic structure. The D to G peak height ratio is 1.24 and 1.07, respectively, for the Vulcan XC-72R and C-11 material, which means that both materials have a high content of sp3-hybridized carbon. Both carbon materials were also
  • Two carbon materials with similar specific surface area, namely Vulcan XC-72R carbon black powder (purchased from Fuel Cell Store, United States) and a synthesized carbon material (C-11) with a high graphitization degree, were used as carbon support. The carbon material C-11 was synthesized in a
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Published 02 Feb 2023

Application of nanoarchitectonics in moist-electric generation

  • Jia-Cheng Feng and
  • Hong Xia

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1185–1200, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.99

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  • MEGs. Among them, carbon materials are favored by researchers due to their good electrical conductivity and mature preparation technologies. In addition, surface modification of materials is an important part of research for MEGs. The surface functional groups of inorganic nanomaterials are easy to
  • permission from Springer Nature from the journal Nature Nanotechnology (“Water-evaporation-induced electricity with nanostructured carbon materials“ by G. Xue; Y. Xu; T. Ding; J. Li; J. Yin; W. Fei; Y. Cao; J. Yu; L. Yuan; L. Gong; J. Chen; S. Deng; J. Zhou; W. Guo), Copyright 2017 Springer Nature. This
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Published 25 Oct 2022

Recent advances in green carbon dots (2015–2022): synthesis, metal ion sensing, and biological applications

  • Aisha Kanwal,
  • Naheed Bibi,
  • Sajjad Hyder,
  • Arif Muhammad,
  • Hao Ren,
  • Jiangtao Liu and
  • Zhongli Lei

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1068–1107, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.93

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Published 05 Oct 2022

Nanoarchitectonics of the cathode to improve the reversibility of Li–O2 batteries

  • Hien Thi Thu Pham,
  • Jonghyeok Yun,
  • So Yeun Kim,
  • Sang A Han,
  • Jung Ho Kim,
  • Jong-Won Lee and
  • Min-Sik Park

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 689–698, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.61

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  • physicochemical properties of Li2O2 are reported to be dependent on many factors, including the pore structure of cathode. The electrical conductivity of the cathode is also essential for securing long-term cyclability as well as rate capability [12]. In this respect, various types of carbon materials have been
  • explored as advanced cathode materials for LOBs, owing to their controllable pore structure with a high surface-to-volume ratio and excellent electrical conductivity [13][14]. In particular, nitrogen-doped carbon materials have shown electrocatalytic activity towards the ORR and/or OER, which would be a
  • favorable characteristic for the effective reduction of the overpotential at the cathode of LOBs [15][16]. Recently, metal–organic framework (MOF)-derived carbon materials have received great attention as potential candidates due to their controllable compositions and porous structures [17][18][19][20][21
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Published 21 Jul 2022

Tubular glassy carbon microneedles with fullerene-like tips for biomedical applications

  • Sharali Malik and
  • George E. Kostakis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 455–461, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.38

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  • . Redfern [4] first used the term “vitreous carbon” in the 1950s when he saw its first technological application as a crucible material. The term “glassy carbon” was used for the first time in 1962, by S. Yamada and H. Sato [5] in their research on the physical properties of carbon materials. Although the
  • it contains essentially only carbon atoms, its structure can be varied at all size levels.” More recently, S. Sharma in a review of glassy carbon materials concluded that “it has been confirmed by both theoretical and experimental investigation that the chemical composition of the polymer plays the
  • graphitic carbon with long-range crystalline order. The interlayer spacing is calculated to have a d-spacing of 4.89 Å. Table 1 shows the interlayer spacing of graphite and other selected carbon materials and is further evidence that the tubules are glassy carbon. In Table 1, the interlayer spacing data
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Published 19 May 2022

Progress and innovation of nanostructured sulfur cathodes and metal-free anodes for room-temperature Na–S batteries

  • Marina Tabuyo-Martínez,
  • Bernd Wicklein and
  • Pilar Aranda

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 995–1020, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.75

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  • composites remarkably promising cathode materials for RT Na–S batteries. Among the different studied materials are, for instance, microporous (Figure 3) and ultramicroporous carbon materials, which have shown a considerable ability to confine sulfur and sodium polysulfides [29][30]. This confinement
  • and improvement. Hard carbon anodes A somewhat more conventional approach to Na metal-free anodes is the use of hard carbon, also termed non-graphitizable carbon [82][85]. These are disorganized carbon materials with turbostratic nanoscale domains produced by pyrolysis of biomass, also including
  • carbon black and other amorphous carbons. While Na+ does not insert in graphite in contrast to Li+, hard carbon can store considerable amounts of sodium in the range of 300 mAh·g−1 (Figure 10D) [82]. For their use in sodium batteries hard carbon materials can be pre-sodiated prior to the cell assembly
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Published 09 Sep 2021

Effects of temperature and repeat layer spacing on mechanical properties of graphene/polycrystalline copper nanolaminated composites under shear loading

  • Chia-Wei Huang,
  • Man-Ping Chang and
  • Te-Hua Fang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 863–877, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.65

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  • the mechanical properties of carbon materials [31]. In this study, graphene with zigzag and armchair chirality is considered while simulating different properties of graphene monolayers and copper layers, including stress–strain curve variations, the distribution of von Mises stress, the evolution of
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Published 12 Aug 2021

High-yield synthesis of silver nanowires for transparent conducting PET films

  • Gul Naz,
  • Hafsa Asghar,
  • Muhammad Ramzan,
  • Muhammad Arshad,
  • Rashid Ahmed,
  • Muhammad Bilal Tahir,
  • Bakhtiar Ul Haq,
  • Nadeem Baig and
  • Junaid Jalil

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 624–632, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.51

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  • , carbon nanotubes (CNT), conductive polymers, and metallic nanowires, have been tested commercially as alternative to ITO films for flexible optoelectronic devices [6][7][8][9]. Amongst them, graphene and carbon materials, particularly CNTs, display low optical transparency and high sheet resistance owing
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Published 01 Jul 2021

ZnO and MXenes as electrode materials for supercapacitor devices

  • Ameen Uddin Ammar,
  • Ipek Deniz Yildirim,
  • Feray Bakan and
  • Emre Erdem

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 49–57, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.4

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  • changes in the Raman spectrum. In particular, this method is used for carbon materials to detect the so-called D-band, which belongs to sp3-hybridized carbon. For the occurrence of the D-band either C dangling bonds on the surface, C interstitials, or C vacancies need to exist. Raman spectra of metal
  • oxides are more complicated than those of carbon materials because there are many peaks for each mode. The most prominent peak in Raman spectra of ZnO is E2(high) for ZnO crystals. Once the size of the ZnO crystallites is below 50 nm, broadening, softening, and a significant shift is observed for this
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Published 13 Jan 2021

Self-standing heterostructured NiCx-NiFe-NC/biochar as a highly efficient cathode for lithium–oxygen batteries

  • Shengyu Jing,
  • Xu Gong,
  • Shan Ji,
  • Linhui Jia,
  • Bruno G. Pollet,
  • Sheng Yan and
  • Huagen Liang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1809–1821, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.163

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  • of transition metal carbides towards ORR and OER, their catalytic performance still needs to be greatly improved to meet the requirements for practical applications. The synergistic effect between transition metal carbides and carbon materials can further enhance the catalytic properties regarding
  • as high as that of NiFe@NC/PPC at the same current density [40]. This is probably due to the synergistic effects between NiFe alloy, transition carbides, and N-doped carbon materials. Akhtar et al. [29] suggested that the presence of Ni and electron-rich nanointerfaces across the Ni–Ni3C interface
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Published 02 Dec 2020

One-step synthesis of carbon-supported electrocatalysts

  • Sebastian Tigges,
  • Nicolas Wöhrl,
  • Ivan Radev,
  • Ulrich Hagemann,
  • Markus Heidelmann,
  • Thai Binh Nguyen,
  • Stanislav Gorelkov,
  • Stephan Schulz and
  • Axel Lorke

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1419–1431, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.126

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  • applications as they show significantly improved electrochemical long-term stability compared to the industrial standard HiSPEC 4000. The PE-CVD process is furthermore expected to be extendable to the general deposition of metal-containing carbon materials from other commercially available metal
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Published 17 Sep 2020

Structure and electrochemical performance of electrospun-ordered porous carbon/graphene composite nanofibers

  • Yi Wang,
  • Yanhua Song,
  • Chengwei Ye and
  • Lan Xu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1280–1290, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.112

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  • the (200) PAN crystal plane [30]. The peaks at approximately 26.5°, 44.5°, and 54.5° in the XRD spectra were typical peaks of either graphite or graphene [36][37]. These peaks were related to the (002) diffraction plane of hexagonal graphite structures in carbon materials. The XRD patterns of PAN
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Published 27 Aug 2020
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