A convenient hydrothermal method has been developed for the controllable synthesis of various nanostructures of manganese oxides and their derivatives through modified redox reactions between Mn(2+) and the combinative o...
Conducting polymer nanowires and nanopore arrays were formed by site selective filling of titania nanotubes with polypyrrole by electropolymerization using a surfactant electrolyte of dodecyl sulfate. The polymerization ...
This paper reports CuO-graphene layer-by-layer hybrid nanostructures by a fast microwave irradiation method. The CuO nanosheets or fusiform morphologies were obtained by varying the reaction temperature of microwave heat...
A novel hollow AuPd (hAuPd) alloy nanostructure with a rough surface was fabricated via a facile one-pot simultaneous reduction of Au(III) and Pd(I) and then assembled on ionic liquid-grafted graphene sheets by electrost...
Structure tailoring of hybrid nanoparticles is highly desirable for a number of applications, due to their controllable physical properties. Here, a family of Ag-Fe(3)O(4) nanohybrids is synthesized via a simple one-step...
Since it was first suggested that molecules could be used for information processing, there has been a significant effort to generate systems that behave according to various logic schemes. Here we will summarize and dis...
The development of visible-wavelength photodetectors based on eco-friendly and bandgap engineerable nanomaterials represents an important and promising direction in photodetector study. This highlight reviewed the recent...
Owing to their efficient light harvesting, structural versatility and intrinsic charge transport behavior, thiophene-based p-conjugated systems have attracted much attention in developing high performance organic solar c...
Herein, we report a preparation method of a novel binary hybrid nanocomposite based on polyaniline (PANI) and alpha-MnO(2) nanotubes (MNTs) by in situ polymerization. The polymerization is carried out in acidic medium us...
Hexagonal multi-layered gold spirangles were successfully synthesized in high yield through a simple process in aqueous solution. Commercially available Brij 700 surfactant was used as the reducing, capping, and shape-di...
A new strategy for the confinement of iodine has been developed: it consists in incorporating iodate anions (IO(3)(-)) into hydroxyapatite (Ca(10)(PO(4))(6)(OH)(2), HA). The iodate-substituted HA was synthesized by preci...
Organic field-effect transistors based on two derivatives of annelated beta-oligothiophenes are fabricated. High mobility of 2.2 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1) is obtained for 2,5-distyryl-dithieno[2,3-b:3',2'-d]thiophene (DEP-DTT) w...
A simple and versatile method was proposed for self-assembling magnetic nanoparticles and hydrophobic upconversion nanoparticles on to a mesoporous nanoprobe by the means of an electrostatic interaction and binding schem...
Nanostructured SiC ceramics exhibit unusual and superior properties compared to their microstructured counterparts, thus hold promise for widespread applications. We report a novel technique for synthesizing dense nanost...
Fluorescent dye-doped silica nanoparticles (FSNs) with gold nanoparticle (Au NP) seeds are synthesized for a fluorescence-based solid-phase detection of target chemicals based on the growth of Au NPs. The FSN-Au NP probe...
We show an order of magnitude increase in yield strength and Young's modulus of poly(propylene carbonate) (PPC) by adding a small amount of graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets, accompanied by a dramatic increase of glass tran...