Showing papers in "Synthetic Metals in 2015"

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed and up-to-date review on the synthesis of large area monolayer, bilayer and multilayer graphene on different substrates via chemical vapor deposition method is highlighted.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential of utilizing natural fibers as fillers for ICPs as well as conductive polymer composites to form natural fibers-conducting polymer composite materials have wide potentials in the modern industries.

TL;DR: In this article, a CNT/polymer nanocomposite of fine and well-dispersed CNT microstructure was found to enhance the EMI shielding by absorption and reduce the reflection of the EVI.

TL;DR: Graphene can be produced using a variety of wet chemical methods, such as chemical oxidation followed by exfoliation, liquid-phase and electrochemical assisted exfoliations etc as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple, flexible, partially transparent and efficient temperature sensor fabricated from composite film of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and cellulose is presented. But the performance of the sensor is limited by its low-temperature multi-step annealing.

TL;DR: In this article, multilayer films of polyaniline (PANI) and graphene oxide (GO) were deposited on indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode for supercapacitor application.

TL;DR: In this paper, the microstructure, processing behavior, electrical and mechanical properties of melt-mixed graphene nanoplatelets (GNP)/polypropylene (PP) nanocomposites were investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structure, adsorption energy, charge transfer and the electronic states of CO, CO 2, H 2 O molecules on the surface of pristine and Al-doped graphene sheets using density functional theory calculations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the polypyrrole (PPy) and its composite with reduced graphene oxide (rGO) are prepared by drop cast in-situ oxidative polymerization method.

TL;DR: In this article, the nanocomposites based on polypyrrole (PPy) nanostructures containing tin dioxide (SnO2) or zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles were prepared and studied via different methods such as Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) spectrograph, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and transmission electron microscope (TEM).

TL;DR: In this paper, a facile and original method of deposition of polyaniline (PANI) and polypyrrole (PPy) by reactive ink-jet printing on different textile fabrics is proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, two layered cupric bromide hybrid perovskite compounds are prepared as light absorbers for application in heterojunction solar cells and their preliminary phoyovoltaic performance was carried out in mesoporous TiO2 heter- junction solar cells.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multifunctional cotton fabric with high electrical conductivity and ultrastrong UV radiation protection properties was successfully fabricated by coating graphene oxide (GO) nanosheet dispersion on fabric surface via vacuum filtration deposition (VFD) method, and then the treated fabric was assembled with polyaniline (PANI) by in-situ chemical polymerization process.

TL;DR: In this paper, a facile and environmentally-friendly strategy for fabricating three-dimensional reduced graphene oxide (3D-rGO) porous structure with one step hydrothermal method using glucose as the reducing agent and CaCO3 as the template.

TL;DR: In this paper, the adsorption of some famous ether molecules: Diethyl ether, Ethyl methyl ether (EME), and Dimethyl ether (DME) on the surface of pristine as well as Al-doped graphene using density functional theory (DFT) calculations to explore a highly sensitive sensor for them.

TL;DR: Chitosan-polypyrrole-SiO2 composites were synthesized by chemical oxidative polymerization of pyrrole in chitosano solution using FeCl3 as an oxidant as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a small change in the length of the alkyl side chain of regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophene)s has a dramatic effect on the interplay between their mechanical and charge-transport properties.

TL;DR: In this article, a facile, low cost, rapid and efficient method to obtain high quality graphene with large scale was proposed, where the synthetic method started with the treatment of the graphite flakes with glutaric acid and then the pretreated graphites were dispersed into methanol and introduced into Teflon autoclave and put into microwave oven with precise power and temperature for a certain time.

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel polymer/TiC nanocomposites were successfully synthesized by chemical oxidation polymerization at room temperature using p -anisidine and/or aniline monomers and titanium carbide (TiC) in the presence of hydrochloric acid as a dopant with ammonium persulfate as oxidant.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-step process was used to fabricate the coatings, and the results showed that the hybrid coatings showed much better anticorrosion performance than the conventional CVD-graphene/polypyrrole hybrid coating.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy with attenuated total reflection (FTIR-ATR), energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) and Xray photoelectron spectroscopic (XPS) of the polypyrrole (PPy) powders corroborated the incorporation of Graphene oxide (GO) as counter ion due to the presence of O in the EDX spectrum, as well as an excess of C arising from GO contribution.

TL;DR: In this article, a self-standing three-dimensional nanocomposite foam of polyaniline (PANI) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) has been fabricated by a convenient template-directed preparation of rGO and subsequent in situ polymerization of aniline on pre-formed rGO foam, which can be directly used as electrodes for flexible supercapacitors.

TL;DR: In this article, the experimental moduli of polymer/CNT nanocomposites (PCNTs) were compared with the theoretical results of CNT volume fractions and the best equation was chosen from analysis of calculations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used EDX and XPS spectra to explore the chemical compositions and intermolecular interactions within the polymer nanocomposite and found that there is a strong interaction between PPy and WO3 nanoparticles.

TL;DR: In this article, a solution processed organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) incorporating a thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) emitter are developed, which have high triplet energy over 2.7 eV, relatively high electron mobility, and high hole blocking ability to effectively confine all the excitons and carriers in the emissive layer.

TL;DR: In this article, nano-polyaniline (nano-PANI) was deposited on hollow carbon spheres (HCS) to prepare nano-Pani/HCS composites via in-situ chemical polymerization.

TL;DR: In this paper, a unified vision of the properties of all these edge states, examined under the light of the same one orbital tight-binding model, is provided, which considers the combined action of interactions, spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field, which produces a wealth of different physical phenomena.

TL;DR: In this article, a supermagnetic nanocomposite of polyaniline thiacalix[4]arene (Fe 3 O 4 @PANI-AmAzoTCA[4]) was prepared by coprecipitation of aniline-diamino-thyroxine copolymer and in-situ generated Fe 3 o 4 nanoparticles.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of alkali metals (Li, Na and K) interaction with Be12O12 and Mg12O 12 nanoclusters on their structural, electronic and nonlinear optical properties was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrated that α-Fe 2 O 3 nanoparticles (50%): PAni hybrid nanocomposites films are highly selective to NH 3 with high sensitivity (50 at 100ppm), fast response time (29 s), and highly reproducible response curves.