We report a facile and efficient method, nanochannel-confined galvanic displacement, to fabricate uniform and controllable CuInSe(2) nanotube arrays using the porous Au-coated anodic aluminium oxide template with a narro...
Herein we report a novel green chemical route for the simultaneous reduction and exfoliation of metal salt-graphite oxide composites for the synthesis of metal/metal oxide nanoparticles dispersed over graphene using focu...
The mesomorphic properties of an achiral, fluorine substituted bent-core liquid crystal have been investigated using polarising optical microscopy, electro-optics, X-ray diffraction and dielectric spectroscopy. A new pha...
With hydrophobic properties and ordered layered structures, mono-n-dodecyloxy-phosphinyl-cerium (terbium) (MDPCT) organic-inorganic hybrid materials were synthesized using cerium nitrate, terbium nitrate and mono-n-dodec...
Individually dispersed graphene colloid is prepared using common and industrially available fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs) as stabilizers. Characterizations by UV-vis, fluorescence and Raman spectra demonstrate that...
WO(3)/graphene (GN) nanocomposites have been successfully synthesized using a facile three-step synthesis. First, an SrWO(4)/graphene oxide (GO) precursor was synthesized by homogeneous precipitation; second, the SrWO(4)...
Here we report a facile process to synthesize the novel nanocomposites comprised of single-layer MoS(2), graphene and amorphous carbon (SL-MoS(2)/G@a-C) by a hydrothermal route employing sodium molybdate, sulfocarbamide,...
A new class of micro/nano composite architecture, characterized by radially grown MnO(2) nanoneedles on high specific surface area (SSA) mesoporous carbon microspheres (MCMs), is presented for the first time as electrode...
Taking Cu(2+), Pb(2+) and Ag(+) as examples of target cations, we describe a general strategy for constructing photonic metal ion sensing hydrogels that allow highly sensitive and selective detection via visual color cha...
Here lanthanide-doped tetragonal nanocrystals of BaYF(5) with strong near infrared-to-visible multicolor upconversion emissions have been controllably synthesized by a hydrothermal method. Opposite to well-established Na...
A new solution processable zinc phthalocyanine dye (ZnPc), as an interface modifier between poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl-C(61)-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) in bulk heterojunction solar cells, was su...
A comprehensive experimental and theoretical investigation of dispersion of the linear and nonlinear optical susceptibilities for amino acid L-alanine single crystals is reported. The state-of-the-art full potential line...
Hierarchically nanostructured Mn(2)Mo(3)O(8)-graphene nanocomposites have been successfully synthesized in large quantities through a facile two-step reduction approach. The unique Mn(2)Mo(3)O(8)-graphene nanohybrids are...
Ternary oxides have the advantages of tuning their physical properties by varying the proportion of each component, thus attracting great research attention in recent years. As an example, we demonstrated in this work th...
Graphene is a promising material in next-generation devices. Large-scale epitaxial graphene should be grown on Si substrates to transfer the accumulated technologies to integrated devices. We have for this reason develop...
Photochromic polymers with various diarylethene derivatives were synthesized by a conventional radical polymerization of styrene derivatives having diarylethene chromophores as the pendant. All the polymers exhibited rev...