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Thermally insulating and fire-retardant lightweight anisotropic foams based on nanocellulose and graphene oxide
Bernd Wicklein,Andraž Kocjan,German Salazar-Alvarez,Federico Carosio,Giovanni Camino,Markus Antonietti,Lennart Bergström +6 more
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This work shows that freeze-casting suspensions of cellulose nanofibres, graphene oxide and sepiolite nanorods produces super-insulating, fire-retardant and strong anisotropic foams that perform better than traditional polymer-based insulating materials.Abstract:
High-performance thermally insulating materials from renewable resources are needed to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. Traditional fossil-fuel-derived insulation materials such as expan ...read more
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Nanocellulose, a Versatile Green Platform: From Biosources to Materials and Their Applications
Bejoy Thomas,Midhun C. Raj,Athira K. B,Rubiyah M. H,Jithin Joy,Jithin Joy,Audrey Moores,Glenna L. Drisko,Clément Sanchez +8 more
TL;DR: Nanocellulose has excellent strength, high Young's modulus, biocompatibility, and tunable self-assembly, thixotropic, and photonic properties, which are essential for the applications of this material.
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Synthesis, properties, and applications of graphene oxide/reduced graphene oxide and their nanocomposites
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the synthesis techniques most commonly used to produce these graphene derivatives, discuss how synthesis affects their key material properties, and highlight some examples of nanocomposites with unique and impressive properties.
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Tailoring Graphene Oxide-Based Aerogels for Efficient Solar Steam Generation under One Sun.
TL;DR: Graphene oxide-based aerogels with carefully tailored properties are developed to enable efficient solar steam generation under one-sun illumination.
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Flexible and Salt Resistant Janus Absorbers by Electrospinning for Stable and Efficient Solar Desalination
TL;DR: In this paper, a flexible Janus membrane is fabricated by convenient electrospinning process to enable stable and efficient solar desalination, and two functions of solar steam generation, solar absorption and water pumping, are decoupled into different layers, with upper hydrophobic carbon black nanoparticles (CB) coating polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) layer for light absorption and bottom hydrophilic polyacrylonitrile (PAN) layer to pump water.
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Nanocellulose: a promising nanomaterial for advanced electrochemical energy storage
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the current research activities that center on the development of nanocellulose for advanced electrochemical energy storage, with the main focus on the integration of nanoCellulose with other active materials, developing films/aerogel as flexible substrates, and the pyrolyzation of nano cellulose to carbon materials.
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The chemistry of graphene oxide
TL;DR: This review will be of value to synthetic chemists interested in this emerging field of materials science, as well as those investigating applications of graphene who would find a more thorough treatment of the chemistry of graphene oxide useful in understanding the scope and limitations of current approaches which utilize this material.
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Cellular Solids: Structure and Properties
Lorna J. Gibson,Michael F. Ashby +1 more
TL;DR: The linear elasticity of anisotropic cellular solids is studied in this article. But the authors focus on the design of sandwich panels with foam cores and do not consider the properties of the materials.
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Thermal properties of graphene and nanostructured carbon materials
TL;DR: The thermal properties of carbon materials are reviewed, focusing on recent results for graphene, carbon nanotubes and nanostructured carbon materials with different degrees of disorder, with special attention given to the unusual size dependence of heat conduction in two-dimensional crystals.
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Cellulose nanomaterials review: structure, properties and nanocomposites
Robert J. Moon,Robert J. Moon,Ashlie Martini,John A. Nairn,John Simonsen,Jeffrey P. Youngblood +5 more
TL;DR: This critical review provides a processing-structure-property perspective on recent advances in cellulose nanoparticles and composites produced from them, and summarizes cellulOSE nanoparticles in terms of particle morphology, crystal structure, and properties.
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Thermal Properties of Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes and Nanostructured Carbon Materials
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review thermal and thermoelectric properties of carbon materials focusing on recent results for graphene, carbon nanotubes and nanostructured carbon materials with different degrees of disorder.