Graphene-encapsulated mesoporous Co3O4 microspheres have been successfully fabricated through a facile self-assembly approach. Driven by the mutual electrostatic interactions, the mesoporous Co3O4 microspheres prepared b...
A novel solution processable donor-acceptor (D-A) based low band gap polymer semiconductor poly {3,6-difuran-2-yl-2,5-di(2-octyldodecyl)-pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-1,4-dione-alt-thienylenevinylene} (PDPPF-TVT), was designed a...
A novel silica-supported 2-aminomethyl pyridine adsorbent was synthesized using a post-grafting route. This synthetic route involved the reaction of 2-aminomethyl pyridine (AMP) with gamma-chloropropyltrimethoxysilane (C...
We report a facile solution based synthesis protocol to incorporate nitrogen within zinc oxide nanorods with substantially improved visible light harvesting via broadband absorption stretching from UV to deep visible wav...
Hybrid hydrogel membranes composed of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanosheets and a poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) matrix were investigated as an electrically responsive drug release system. The rGO nanosheets in the matrix ...
Close-packed graphene suffers from a low surface area, which limits its electrocatalytic activity as the counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). We report herein the synthesis of a porous graphene/SiO2 n...
We demonstrate the modification of substrate surfaces by the fabrication of thin layer sub-wavelength nanostructures in sol-gel glass in large area on their surfaces. Compared with the traditional methods, the sol-gel me...
Mechanochromic luminescence (ML) refers to the luminescence color and/or intensity change of solid-state materials induced by mechanical perturbations. For organic molecular solids, this phenomenon is related to the spec...
First-principle calculation was employed to simulate X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy of two typical types of lithium cobalt oxides to clarify the electronic and local structural changes during l...
Light-weight composite materials of superior thermal transport properties are important to thermal management and other applications. Carbon nanomaterials with their high thermal conductivities have been widely pursued f...