Peter Zapol

TL;DR: Multiwalled carbon nanotubes with a mean fracture strength >100 GPa are reported, which exceeds earlier observations by a factor of approximately three and are in excellent agreement with quantum-mechanical estimates for nanot tubes containing only an occasional vacancy defect, and are approximately 80% of the values expected for defect-free tubes.

TL;DR: Nanostructuring tungsten diselenide nanoflakes enhances catalytic activity for carbon dioxide conversion to carbon monoxide in an ionic liquid medium and applies this catalyst in a light-harvesting artificial leaf platform that concurrently oxidized water in the absence of any external potential.

TL;DR: Quantum chemical calculations indicate that under-coordination of the Pt atoms in the clusters is responsible for the surprisingly high reactivity compared with extended surfaces, which is expected to form the basis for development of a new class of catalysts.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that hierarchical metal sulfides can serve as highly efficient all-pH (pH = 0-14) electrocatalysts for overall water splitting.

TL;DR: In this paper, trananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) films with up to 0.2% total nitrogen content were synthesized by a microwave plasma-enhanced chemical-vapor-deposition method using a CH4(1%)/Ar gas mixture and 1%−20% nitrogen gas added.