The technological evolution has been progressing for centuries and will possibly increase at
a higher rate in the 21st century. Currently, in this age of nanotechnology, the discovery of …

Calculations of the impact of friction and wear on energy consumption, economic
expenditure, and CO 2 emissions are presented on a global scale. This impact study covers …

Hydrogen is identified as the most promising zero-carbon fuel of the future. Naturally, in this
regard, the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), being a first critical step of the hydrogen …

The growing worldwide population necessitates an urgent need and demand for efficient
and sustainable energy use, particularly in the moving components of machinery. A …

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been serving as one the most critical
components of fast growing technologies, such as the mobile electronic and electrified …

Exceptional advancement has been made in the development of graphene optical
nanoantennas. They are incorporated with optoelectronic devices for plasmonics application …

In the last few years, new two-dimensional (2-D) materials have garnered the scientific
community's attention with the growing demand for functionalized materials for advanced …

The fast progress of theranostic nanomedicine has catalyzed the generation of diverse
inorganic nanosystems with intrinsic multifunctionalities for versatile biomedical …

Rather than generating a photocurrent through photo-excited carriers by the photoelectric
effect, the photogating effect enables us to detect sub-bandgap rays. The photogating effect …

A new facile and green solid exfoliation method using urea-assisted ball milling is reported
here to prepare NH2-functionalized few-layer black phosphorus (BP) nanosheets. The …