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Bakry A. Bakry, Mervat Sh. Sadak, Nagla M. Al Ashkar, Omar M. Ibrahim, Mohammad K. Okla and Amira M. El-Tahan
Drought stress is an important challenge to global food security and agricultural output, and dramatic and rapid climate change has made the problem worse, causing unexpected impacts on the growth, development, and yield of different plants. Understandin...
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Suma Ayyagari and Marwan Al-Haik
Carbon fiber reinforced plastic composites (CFRPs) possess superior elastic mechanical properties. However, CFRPs lack sufficient viscoelastic performance, such as damping and creep resistance. In an effort to improve these properties, in this study, hyb...
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Mehdi Shishehbor, Hadi S. Esmaeeli and M. Reza Pouranian
The interfacial adhesion between asphalt binder and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) depends on many nanoscopic properties such as diffusion of SARA molecules on CNTs surface. Functionalization of CNTs with Oxygens (O=CNTs), hydroxyl groups (HO?CNTs), and hydroge...
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Hsuan-Ling Kao, Cheng-Lin Cho, Li-Chun Chang, Chun-Bing Chen, Wen-Hung Chung and Yun-Chen Tsai
A fully inkjet-printed strain sensor based on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) was fabricated in this study for microstrain and microcrack detection. Carbon nanotubes and silver films were used as the sensing layer and conductive layer, respectively. Inkjet-print...
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Maricica Pacurari, Kristine Lowe, Paul B. Tchounwou and Ramzi Kafoury
The respiratory system represents the main gateway for nanoparticles? entry into the human body. Although there is a myriad of engineered nanoparticles, carbon nanoparticles/nanotubes (CNPs/CNTs) have received much attention mainly due to their light wei...
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Madeline Smith, Amanda Payne, Kyle Edwards, Steven Morris, Brenda Beckler and Rafael L. Quirino
Tung oil is uniquely reactive among plant-based natural oils due to the series ofconjugated carbon-carbon double bonds in its fatty acid chains. These conjugatedcarbon-carbon double bonds impart a high reactivity towards cationic polymerization in thepre...
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Fernando Cazaña, Zainab Afailal, Miguel González-Martín, José Luis Sánchez, Nieves Latorre, Eva Romeo, Jesús Arauzo and Antonio Monzón
The 21st century arrived with global growth of energy demand caused by population and standard of living increases. In this context, a suitable alternative to produce COx-free H2 is the catalytic decomposition of methane (CDM), which also allows for obta...
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Deqiang Ji, Qingxin Jia, Chuanli Zhu, Wei Dong, Hongjun Wu and Guanzhong Wang
Climate warming and environmental problems caused by the excessive consumption of fossil energy and massive CO2 emissions have seriously damaged the human living environment. This paper develops a new green, efficient, and environmentally friendly CO2 ca...
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Yinyu Sun, Zhongcheng Ke, Caiyun Shen, Ruikang Sun, Qing Wei, Zihan Yin and Wei Yang
Due to the continuous occurrence of water pollution problems, practical separation methods for oil?water mixtures have attracted more and more attention. To date, different kinds of materials have been developed with good hydrophobic properties and stron...
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Yang Zhang, Yanhui Li, Mingzhen Wang, Bing Chen, Yaohui Sun, Kewei Chen and Qiujv Du
In order to remove tetracycline (TC) from sewage more effectively, the adsorption performance of TC on alginate composite aerogel beads containing carbon nanomaterials was studied systematically. Carboxylated functionalized carbon nanotubes (F-CNTs)@Cu-b...
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Evgeni Ivanov, Rumiana Kotsilkova, Hesheng Xia, Yinghong Chen, Ricardo K. Donato, Katarzyna Donato, Anna Paula Godoy, Rosa Di Maio, Clara Silvestre, Sossio Cimmino and Verislav Angelov
In this study, the structure, electrical and thermal properties of ten polymer compositions based on polylactic acid (PLA), low-cost industrial graphene nanoplates (GNP) and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) in mono-filler PLA/MWCNT and PLA/GNP syste...
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Marina V. Il?ina, Olga I. Soboleva, Soslan A. Khubezov, Vladimir A. Smirnov and Oleg I. Il?in
The creation of sustainable power sources for wearable electronics and self-powered systems is a promising direction of modern electronics. At the moment, a search for functional materials with high values of piezoelectric coefficient and elasticity, as ...
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Xuqiu Bai, Zhichun Xu, Xianyi Li, Tiantian Zhao, Xiang Ge and Caideng Yuan
The Marangoni effect is a phenomenon of mass transfer between two fluids with different surface tensions, which has been used in many fields. In this paper, we prepared ultrathin conductive films with graphene (GN) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) based on th...
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Chan-Woong Choi, Ki-Weon Kang and Ji-Won Jin
This study identified the governing variables affecting the effective properties of the representative volume element (RVE) of nanocomposites consisting of unidirectionally aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and determined the mechanism through which they a...
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Juanjuan Wang, Lele Li, Enping Liu, Xue Han and Conghua Lu
Harnessing surface wrinkle surfaces in various functional devices has been a hot topic. However, rapidly creating wrinkled surfaces on elastomers of arbitrary shape (especially curved surfaces) is still a great challenge. In this work, an ultrasonic-assi...
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Octavian-Gabriel Simionescu, Oana Brîncoveanu, Cosmin Romanitan, Silviu Vulpe and Andrei Avram
In this work, the growth process of self-sustained vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VA-CNTs) is investigated in full: from bare Si wafers to fully grown VA-CNTs on 4? wafers. Each developmental step, from supporting and catalyst layers? depositions t...
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Zhanhua Ji and Dengyu Li
The stability of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) suspension is a key factor in determining their transport, fate, and toxicity in an aquatic environment, which is significantly influenced by CNTs? nature and water chemistry. Macromolecular dissolved organic matt...
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Gun-Cheol Lee, Youngmin Kim and Seongwon Hong
Two types of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), powder and liquid, were added to cementitious composites to build self-sensing concrete. To properly evaluate and quantify the effect of MWCNTs on electrical resistance, various tests, including isothe...
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Sesha Srinivasan, Dervis Emre Demirocak, Ajeet Kaushik, Meenu Sharma, Ganga Ram Chaudhary, Nicoleta Hickman and Elias Stefanakos
In the field of energy storage, recently investigated nanocomposites show promise in terms of high hydrogen uptake and release with enhancement in the reaction kinetics. Among several, carbonaceous nanovariants like carbon nanotubes (CNTs), fullerenes, a...
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Kun Chen and Somenath Mitra
We present the anti-solvent precipitation of hydrophobic drugs griseofulvin (GF) and sulfamethoxazole (SMZ) in the presence of carboxylated carbon nanotubes (f-CNTs). The aqueous dispersed f-CNTs were directly incorporated into the drug particles during ...
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