Urchin-like NiCo2O4 nanostructures were synthesized on a large scale via a simple hydrothermal method free of any template and catalyst. As-synthesized NiCo2O4 urchins have uniform diameters of 5 mu m with numerous small...
In this study, we prepare UV-curable polyacrylate-gold nanocomposites (PGNs) for the first time and analyze their thermal properties. The microemulsion architectures of these PGNs contain gold nanoparticles (GNPs) whose ...
CuInSe2 (CIS) has been widely studied because of its potential applications in photovoltaics, and the phase structure is believed to significantly affect its electronic and optical properties. A new wurtzite-type phase o...
Renewable nacre-like heparin (HEP)/layered double hydroxide (LDH) ultrathin films were first fabricated via a bottom-up layer by layer (LBL) deposition technique, which simultaneously showed largely enhanced mechanical p...
Highly sensitive near-infrared (NIR) phototransistors based on poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and lead sulfide quantum dots (PbS QDs) were fabricated by a solution process. The phototransistors show high responsivity up t...
In the paper, we find that graphene has a strong dielectric loss, but exhibits very weak attenuation properties to electromagnetic waves due to its high conductivity. As polyaniline nanorods are perpendicularly grown on ...
Divalent cobalt ions (Co2+) have been shown to possess the capacity to induce angiogenesis by activating hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1 alpha.) and subsequently inducing the production of vascular endothelial gr...
Well-dispersed, uniform Y2O3:Ln(3+) (Ln(3+) = Eu3+, Tb3+) hollow microspheres have been successfully prepared via a urea-assisted homogeneous precipitation method using polystyrene (PS) as templates, followed by a subseq...
A series of organic dyes containing oligo-phenothiazine were synthesized and used effectively on the fabrication of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). In these compounds the phenothiazine moiety functions both as an ele...
We have employed genetic engineering through a four-step roadmap to design second-harmonic generation materials with infrared transparency. Firstly, we constructed virtual crystals of Ba(2)BiInA(5) (A = Se, Te) using the...
Two novel host materials based on carbazole derivatives were synthesized with benzo[b]thiophene (B2tCz) or dibenzothiophene (DB2tCz) for use in evaporation-processed blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes. Bot...
In this paper, we report a facile, low cost synthesis and characterization of kesterite Cu2ZnSn(S-x,Se1-x)(4) (CZTSSe) nanocrystals (NCs) by a two-step process involving a solution-based precursor and a post-annealing ro...
This paper reports a simple one-step growth of hierarchically micro/nanostructured porous metallic copper microspheres with high yield at room temperature. The key growth strategy is to use phenol and ascorbic acid as po...
Three novel three-component conjugates of a succinyl spacer, a pharmacophore of 17 beta-amino-11 alpha-hydroxyl-androst-1,4-diene-3-one, and a targeting sequence of RGD-tetrapeptide (peptide Arg-Gly-Asp-AA) were designed...
We synthesized Ag and Ag/SiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) and investigated the energy coupling processes between the localized surface plasmons of NPs and the active quantum well regions of nanopillar light-emitting diodes (LEDs...
Sensing skins made of reduced graphene oxide (RGO) based quantum resistive vapour sensors (vQRS) have been developed by combining two original processes, i.e., the synthesis of phase transferable graphene sheets using io...