Carbon-based electrocatalysts for sustainable energy applications

J Wang, H Kong, J Zhang, Y Hao, Z Shao… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon-based materials have multiple advantages including abundant sources, tunable
molecular structures, high electronic conductivity, and environmental compatibility. Rapidly …

Mesoporous carbon materials: synthesis and modification

C Liang, Z Li, S Dai - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Porous carbon materials are of interest in many applications because of their high surface
area and physicochemical properties. Conventional syntheses can only produce randomly …

From metal–organic framework to nanoporous carbon: toward a very high surface area and hydrogen uptake

HL Jiang, B Liu, YQ Lan, K Kuratani… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
In this work, with a zeolite-type metal–organic framework as both a precursor and a template
and furfuryl alcohol as a second precursor, nanoporous carbon material has been prepared …

From Metal–Organic Framework to Nitrogen-Decorated Nanoporous Carbons: High CO2 Uptake and Efficient Catalytic Oxygen Reduction

A Aijaz, N Fujiwara, Q Xu - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
High-surface-area N-decorated nanoporous carbons have been successfully synthesized
using the N-rich metal–organic framework ZIF-8 as a template and precursor along with …

Chemistry and physics in one dimension: synthesis and properties of nanowires and nanotubes

J Hu, TW Odom, CM Lieber - Accounts of chemical research, 1999 - ACS Publications
Dimensionality plays a critical role in determining the properties of materials due to, for
example, the different ways that electrons interact in three-dimensional, twodimensional …

Uniform Silver Nanowires Synthesis by Reducing AgNO3 with Ethylene Glycol in the Presence of Seeds and Poly(Vinyl Pyrrolidone)

Y Sun, Y Yin, BT Mayers, T Herricks… - Chemistry of Materials, 2002 - ACS Publications
A solution-phase approach has been demonstrated for the large-scale synthesis of silver
nanowires with diameters in the range of 30− 40 nm, and lengths up to∼ 50 μm. The first …

Membrane-based synthesis of nanomaterials

CR Martin - Chemistry of materials, 1996 - ACS Publications
This paper reviews a relatively new method for preparing nanomaterials: membrane-based
synthesis. This method entails the synthesis of the desired material within the pores of a …

Seed-mediated synthesis of gold nanorods: role of the size and nature of the seed

A Gole, CJ Murphy - Chemistry of Materials, 2004 - ACS Publications
We report studies on the synthesis of gold nanorods by a three-step seeding protocol
method using a variety of different gold seeds. The synthetic method is adapted from one we …

Concepts for the incorporation of inorganic building blocks into organic polymers on a nanoscale

G Kickelbick - Progress in polymer science, 2003 - Elsevier
Hybrid inorganic–organic materials are promising systems for a variety of applications due
to their extraordinary properties based on the combination of the different building blocks …

Co3O4 Nanomaterials in Lithium‐Ion Batteries and Gas Sensors

WY Li, LN Xu, J Chen - Advanced Functional Materials, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Co3O4 nanotubes, nanorods, and nanoparticles are used as the anode materials of
lithium‐ion batteries. The results show that the Co3O4 nanotubes prepared by a porous …