Graphene sheets were prepared by reducing exfoliated graphite oxide in the presence of
SPANI. Typically, graphite oxide (GO) was synthesized from natural graphite through a modified
Hummers method, 7,12 and SPANI was prepared by sulfonating polyaniline following a published …

The physical and photophysical properties of metals on the nanometer scale are influenced by
the shape of the nanoparticle. 1 Well defined silver nanorods and nanowires are desirable for
their optical and electronic properties. 2,3 However, preparation of silver nanoparticles by chemical …

A facile method to obtain polydisperse chemically-converted graphene sheets that are
covalently functionalized with ionic liquid was reported—the resulting graphene sheets,
without any assistance from polymeric or surfactant stabilizers, can be stably dispersed in …

Many oxide photocatalysts have been developed for energy problem and the increasingly stringent
standards of environmental regulations. 1,2 Among these, Ta 2 O 5 and some tantalates such
as NaTaO 3 work as highly active photocatalysts and can even decompose water efficiently …

Many chromophoric organics and polymers are highly emissive in their dilute solutions but become
weakly luminescent when fabricated into thin films. 1 This is believed to be caused by aggregate
formation: in the solid state, the molecules aggregate to form less emissive species such as …

An advanced integrated electrode for high-performance supercapacitors has been designed
by growing hierarchical NiCo2O4@ MnO2 core–shell heterostructured nanowire arrays on
nickel foam. Such unique array nanoarchitectures exhibit remarkable electrochemical …

We employed a binary spacer of orderly conjugated 3, 4-ethyldioxythiophene and
thienothiophene to construct a wide-spectral response organic chromophore for dye-
sensitized solar cells, exhibiting a high power conversion efficiency of 9.8% measured under …

Strongly fluorescent graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have been prepared by one-step
solvothermal method with PL quantum yield as high as 11.4%. The GQDs have high stability
and can be dissolved in most polar solvents. Because of fine biocompatibility and low …

Detailed comparison between molecular crystal structures, even structures containing the same
molecule, is seldom straightforward, and the rapid growth in the number of published structures
has given impetus to the need to rapidly compare and contrast molecular crystal structures …

A scalable, reproducible method of synthesizing UiO-66-and UiO-67-type MOFs, entailing
the addition of HCl to the reaction mixture, has been investigated. The new protocol requires
a fraction of the time of previously reported procedures, yields exceptional porosities, and …