Hierarchically structured bioinspired nanocomposites

D Nepal, S Kang, KM Adstedt, K Kanhaiya… - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
Next-generation structural materials are expected to be lightweight, high-strength and tough
composites with embedded functionalities to sense, adapt, self-repair, morph and restore …

Synthesis and applications of graphene oxide

A Jiříčková, O Jankovský, Z Sofer, D Sedmidubský - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Thanks to the unique properties of graphite oxides and graphene oxide (GO), this material
has become one of the most promising materials that are widely studied. Graphene oxide is …

Graphene oxide bulk material reinforced by heterophase platelets with multiscale interface crosslinking

K Chen, X Tang, B Jia, C Chao, Y Wei, J Hou, L Dong… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Graphene oxide (GO) and reduced GO possess robust mechanical, electrical and chemical
properties. Their nanocomposites have been extensively explored for applications in diverse …

Bioinspired chiral inorganic nanomaterials

NH Cho, A Guerrero-Martínez, J Ma, S Bals… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
From small molecules to entire organisms, evolution has refined biological structures at the
nanoscale, microscale and macroscale to be chiral—that is, mirror dissymmetric. Chirality …

Recent progress in the synthesis of graphene and derived materials for next generation electrodes of high performance lithium ion batteries

R Kumar, S Sahoo, E Joanni, RK Singh, WK Tan… - Progress in Energy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The importance of graphene and its derivatives for “clean energy” applications became
apparent over the last few years due to their exceptional characteristics, especially …

A 90-nm-thick graphene metamaterial for strong and extremely broadband absorption of unpolarized light

H Lin, BCP Sturmberg, KT Lin, Y Yang, X Zheng… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Broadband strong light absorption of unpolarized light over a wide range of angles in a large-
area ultrathin film is critical for applications such as photovoltaics, photodetectors, thermal …

Preparation of 2D material dispersions and their applications

X Cai, Y Luo, B Liu, HM Cheng - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Extensive research on two-dimensional (2D) materials has triggered the renaissance of an
old topic, that is, the intercalation and exfoliation of layer materials. Such top-down …

Polymer nanocomposites—a comparison between carbon nanotubes, graphene, and clay as nanofillers

M Bhattacharya - Materials, 2016 - mdpi.com
Nanofilled polymeric matrices have demonstrated remarkable mechanical, electrical, and
thermal properties. In this article we review the processing of carbon nanotube, graphene …

Two-Dimensional Ti3C2Tx MXene Membranes as Nanofluidic Osmotic Power Generators

S Hong, F Ming, Y Shi, R Li, IS Kim, CY Tang… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Salinity-gradient is emerging as one of the promising renewable energy sources but its
energy conversion is severely limited by unsatisfactory performance of available …

Graphene-based multilayered metamaterials with phototunable architecture for on-chip photonic devices

Y Yang, H Lin, BY Zhang, Y Zhang, X Zheng, A Yu… - Acs …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Graphene-based metamaterials have been theoretically demonstrated as an enabler for
applications as perfect absorbers, photodetectors, light emitters, modulators, and tunable …