Hui Huang

TL;DR: Mechanistic studies indicate that the nickel–vanadium-layered double hydroxides can provide high intrinsic catalytic activity, mainly due to enhanced conductivity, facile electron transfer and abundant active sites, and may expand the scope of cost-effective electrocatalysts for water splitting.

TL;DR: The mechanical properties of polymeric nanocomposites are strongly affected by the nature of the interphase between filler and matrix, which can be controlled by means of surface chemistry as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This perspective article focussed on the branch of scanning probe methods that allows the determination of surface nanomechanical properties, and discussed some different AFM-based modes that were used for these measurements.

TL;DR: In this paper, a composite solvent-borne alkyd coating with 1 wt% p-toluene sulfonic acid (PTSA) doped polyaniline (PANI) was prepared.

TL;DR: Two atomic force microscopy force methods are employed to directly measure the surface nanomechanical properties of the transition region between filler particle and matrix over a controlled temperature range, providing new insight into understanding the microstructure and mechanical properties of nanocomposites, which is of importance for designing nanomaterials.