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Natural aging of shape stabilized phase change materials based on paraffin wax
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Natural aging of shape-stabilized phase change materials containing linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), paraffin wax and expanded graphite (EG) in Qatari climate has been studied. It was found that expanded graphite ...
Smart and robust electrospun fabrics of piezoelectric polymer nanocomposite for self-powering electronic textiles
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
The present work designs a piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) based on the electrospun nanofibers of the piezoelectric polymer, polyvinylidene fluoride hexafluoropropylene (PVDF-HFP), by uniformly drawing the spun membranes ...
Interfacial engineering for high performance organic photovoltaics
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2016 , Article Review)
In the past two decades, bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have gained tremendous attention due to its intrinsic merits of cheap, flexible, clean and high throughput manufacturing processibility and ...
One-pot microwave-assisted green synthesis of amine-functionalized graphene quantum dots for high visible light photocatalytic application
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Elsevier Masson SAS
, 2019 , Article)
Nowadays, graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have gained a huge interest in the field of visible-range photocatalysts because of their tunable band gap and stable photochemical properties. In this work, amine-functionalized GQDs ...
X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopic analyses for intercalative nanohybrids with low crystallinity
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article Review)
Intercalation reactions can be achieved through ion-exchange, pillaring, and exfoliation-reassembling reactions to explore new intercalation compounds with desired electronic, electrochemical, and optical functions. Such ...
Poly (acrylonitrile-co-methyl methacrylate) nanoparticles: I. Preparation and characterization
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
This work concerns the preparation and characterization of poly (acrylonitrile-co-methyl methacrylate) Copolymer, P(AN-co-MMA), nano-particles using precipitation polymerization technique. Potassium per-sulfate redox ...
Interface Coassembly and Polymerization on Magnetic Colloids: Toward Core–Shell Functional Mesoporous Polymer Microspheres and Their Carbon Derivatives
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
, 2020 , Article)
Core–shell structured magnetic mesoporous polymer or carbon-based microspheres not only possess the combined merits of magnetic particles and stable mesoporous shell but also provide various organic functional groups for ...
The recent advances in the mechanical properties of self-standing two-dimensional MXene-based nanostructures: Deep insights into the supercapacitor
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MDPI AG
, 2020 , Article)
MXenes have emerged as promising materials for various mechanical applications due to their outstanding physicochemical merits, multilayered structures, excellent strength, flexibility, and electrical conductivity. Despite ...
Unveiling fabrication and environmental remediation of mxene-based nanoarchitectures in toxic metals removal from wastewater: Strategy and mechanism
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MDPI AG
, 2020 , Article)
Efficient approaches for toxic metal removal from wastewater have had transformative impacts to mitigating freshwater scarcity. Adsorption is among the most promising purification techniques due to its simplicity, low cost, ...
High electrocatalytic performance of CuCoNi@CNTs modified glassy carbon electrode towards methanol oxidation in alkaline medium
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MDPI AG
, 2017 , Article)
A novel non-precious multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-supported metal oxide electrocatalyst was developed for methanol electrooxidation in alkaline medium. The catalyst was fabricated by simultaneous electrodeposition ...