Janus structures in energy storage systems: advantages and challenges

AE Gerdroodbar, R Damircheli, SN Eliseeva… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The development of energy storage systems has become a challenging and crucial topic
due to the human life necessities, industrial evolutions, and the environmental essentials for …

Janus-type dendrimers: Synthesis, properties, and applications

F Najafi, M Salami-Kalajahi… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dendrimers are among the most popular multifaceted systems. Conventional dendrimers
cannot be used in many specific applications such as simultaneous loading of different …

Starch acetate and carboxymethyl starch as green and sustainable polymer electrolytes for high performance lithium ion batteries

S Hadad, M Hamrahjoo, E Dehghani… - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Starch-based electrolytes are used here to achieve safe, efficient, inexpensive, and eco-
friendly lithium ion batteries (LIBs). Carboxymethyl starch (CMS) and starch acetate (SA) are …

Performance enhancement of photovoltaic panels integrated with thermoelectric generators and phase change materials: Optimization and analysis of thermoelectric …

MJ Khoshnazm, A Marzban, N Azimi - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In this research, thermoelectric generators (TEGs) and phase change materials (PCMs) are
used to enhance the thermal and electrical performances of PV panels. Composites of …

Synthesis, photocrosslinking, and self-assembly of coumarin-anchored poly (amidoamine) dendrimer for smart drug delivery system

R Pashaei-Sarnaghi, F Najafi, A Taghavi-Kahagh… - European Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Light-responsive polymers are of great interest today due to their various applications,
especially in the field of drug delivery. In this work, poly (amidoamine) dendrimer with …

Poly (propylene imine) dendrimer as reducing agent for chloroauric acid to fabricate and stabilize gold nanoparticles

F Najafi, N Ghasemian, M Safari… - Journal of Physics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are among the most important metal nanoparticles with unique
size-dependent properties, and they have been applied in various fields including as …

Synthesis of Janus/non-Janus hollow graphene oxide micro-and nanoparticles and the effects of their localization on the thermal conductivity of blend-based polymer …

E Pourakbar, E Sharifzadeh - Journal of Materials Science, 2021 - Springer
In this study, the effects of Janus, hydrophilic and hydrophobic hollow graphene oxide (HO)
particles on the thermal conductivity of binary polymer blends were investigated. The HO …

Gamma-ray shielding effectiveness, optical, mechanical, dielectric properties of nanofiller-reinforced PVA/PVP polymeric blend nanocomposites

A El Rahman, HS Metwally, N Sabry… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The aqueous solution cast method was used to create the biodegradable polymer
nanocomposite (PNC) films from a blend of poly (vinyl alcohol) PVA and poly (vinyl …

Synthesis of amphiphilic Janus dendrimer and its application in improvement of hydrophobic drugs solubility in aqueous media

F Najafi, M Salami-Kalajahi… - European Polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Classic dendrimers are not used in many specific applications such as simultaneous loading
of different drugs due to the existence of identical end groups. The possibility of designing …

Effect of grafting ratio of poly (propylene imine) dendrimer onto gold nanoparticles on the properties of colloidal hybrids, their DOX loading and release behavior and …

F Najafi, M Salami-Kalajahi… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2019 - Elsevier
A facile method via “grafting to” approach was used to synthesize hybrid gold-dendrimer
nanoparticles. To this end, gold nanoparticles (GNPs) were synthesized via Turkevich …