Showing papers in "Diamond and Related Materials in 2016"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a clear target for the RD with a killer defect density less than 0.1 cm−2, resistivity less than ε 0.005 ε, and a size of 4in.

TL;DR: In this article, water interaction with surface modified nanodiamonds (NDs) is investigated by means of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermal analysis, and Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM).

TL;DR: In this article, the growth of diamond plates in a microwave plasma using H2-CH4 and H2CH4-Ar gas mixtures in a broad range of methane concentration (2-15%) is studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple, rapid, selective and sensitive differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) procedure for the determination of Imatinib was performed in the concentration range of 3.0 −10 −8 −2.5 −1.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of detonation nanodiamond (DND) on the mechanical, thermal and antibacterial properties of cellulose acetate (CA) membrane was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, carbon quantum dots (CQDs)-doped TiO 2 and CQDs/TiO 2 nanocomposite were prepared by a sol-gel approach for photocatalytic removal of Rhodamine B and cefradine.

TL;DR: In this paper, the reaction of urea conversion was investigated in an interval of temperatures 350-450 ǫ, but carbon nitride oxide is detected in the products of pyrolysis only at temperatures above 430 ǒ ǔ ǎ.

TL;DR: In this paper, ball milling has been performed with different milling media (NH4HCO3, NaCl and sucrose) and investigate the effect of different medium on DNDs de-aggregation followed by its dispersion behavior in different solvents (ethanol, water and DMSO).

TL;DR: In this article, the thermal conductivity and viscosity of nanodiamond (ND) nanoparticles were estimated experimentally at different particle concentrations and temperatures, and the theoretical approach was used to identify the heat transfer benefits of the prepared propylene glycol/water based ND nanofluids in laminar and turbulent flow conditions using the thermal properties.

TL;DR: In this article, the Si/Ag-incorporated DLC layers were deposited on titanium alloy (Ti6Al7Nb) using modified radio frequency plasma assisted chemical vapour deposition (RF PACVD) method and examined in terms of chemical, mechanical and biological properties.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) at unmodified boron-doped diamond electrode to detect vitamin B 6 in pharmaceutical preparation and human urine samples.

TL;DR: In this article, the Si-incorporated diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings deposited on AISI 316 LVM medical steel using magnetron sputtering method are assessed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of Cu/Cr co-doping on wettability and mechanical properties of diamond-like carbon (DLC) films were focused. And the combined structural analysis demonstrated that the synergistic Cu and Cr co-ding resulted in the critical and significant relaxation of distorted C C bond length, which ultimately caused the reduction in residual stress.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the optical response of luminous carbon nanodots (CNDs) to selectively generate highly reactive oxidative hydroxyls (OH) upon irradiation with different light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the visible-NIR range.

TL;DR: In this paper, optical microscopy images of (001)-oriented single crystal diamond surfaces by O/H plasma etching have been used to investigate the shape of the formed pits.

TL;DR: In this article, a transparent copper-doped diamond-like carbon (DLC) films were fabricated by hybrid linear ion beam technique and evaluated by examining attachment and colonization behaviors of E. coli and Bacillus sp.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between structural and optical properties of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) has been analyzed using multi-technique experimental data (XRD patterns, Raman, steady-time and time resolved luminescence, Photoluminescence Excitation spectra, Reflectivity spectra).

TL;DR: In this article, the formation of high-quality graphene layers on diamond was achieved based on a high-temperature annealing method using a Cu catalyst, and the sheet hole concentration and mobility values of the layers were estimated to be ~1013 cm−2 and ~670 cm2/Vs, respectively.

TL;DR: In this article, the cBN-Ti-Al composite was prepared by spark plasma sintering with introducing Ti and Al to absorb hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) transformed from cBN.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) method to deposit diamond-like carbon (DLC), fluorine-doped DLC (F-DLC) and silicon-decompositioned DLC (Si-DCL) coatings onto the slot surface in stainless steel orthodontic brackets and to characterize the frictional property between the bracket and wire under dry and wet conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on the microstructure and mechanical properties of nanocomposite welds was evaluated by applying ball milling.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of temperature, pressure and holder geometry on homoepitaxial single crystalline diamond growth in a microwave-assisted chemical vapor deposition reactor was introduced and discussed in detail.

TL;DR: In this paper, a substrate holder with different recess depths and a seed crystal with different side-surface crystallographic orientations was designed to determine the influence of the recess depths on the growth quality according to polarizing microscope, laser Raman spectroscopy, UV fluorescence imaging, and photoluminescence mapping measurements.

TL;DR: In this article, the degradation of isothiazolin-3-ones and its mineralization trend were monitored by UV-vis spectrophotometric method and total organic carbon (TOC) analyzer, respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the possibility of preparing activated carbon (AC) and carbon nanotubes (CNT) based electrodes for supercapacitors by a facile electrophoretic deposition (EPD) method.

TL;DR: In this paper, a fiber-optic low coherence sensor with thin diamond films is demonstrated, where undoped and boron-doped diamond films were elaborated by the use of the microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (μPE CVD) system.

TL;DR: In this article, the microstructure, mass density and internal stress of the diamond-like carbon films (DLC) have been studied and the results indicate that properties of the as-deposited DLC films are strongly dependent on the ion energy which is determined by the DC voltage.

TL;DR: In this paper, a diamond-based field effect transistor (FET) with SiNx and ZrO2 double dielectric layer has been demonstrated, and the leakage current density (J) of ISFET was found to be lower than 3.88% when the gate bias was changed from 2V to −8V.

TL;DR: In this paper, a fast polishing of polycrystalline CVD diamond films by ultrasonic machining in a slurry with diamond particles was reported, where the material removal mechanism is based on diamond micro-chipping by the bombarding diamond particles subjected to action of an ultrasonic radiator.

TL;DR: In this paper, a thorough analysis on deposition rate of boron carbon nitride (BCN) thin films is conducted as a function of various N 2 /Ar gas flow ratios, target powers and substrate deposition temperatures.