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In the last three decades or so, we have witnessed an extraordinary progress in the research and technology of carbon-based nanomaterials. Among the peculiar highlights are the discoveries of fullerene, the carbon nanotubes and the…
Carbon nanotubes bridge the molecular and crystalline quantum worlds, and their extraordinary electronic, mechanical and optical properties have attracted enormous attention from a broad scientific community. We review the basic principles…
Hexagonal boron nitride is widely used as a substrate for two-dimensional materials in both electronic and photonic devices. Here, we demonstrate that two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride is also an ideal substrate for one-dimensional…
By breaking the restriction of mirrors, random lasers from a disordered medium have found unique applications spanning from displays, spectroscopy, biomedical treatments, to Li-Fi.Gain media in the form of two-dimension with distinct…
Fully CMOS-compatible photonic memory holding devices hold a potential in a development of ultrafast artificial neural networks. Leveraging the benefits of photonics such as high-bandwidth, low latencies, low-energy interconnect and high…
Carbon is an extremely versatile element and carbon allotropes are very useful in all aspects of life and scientific research. T-carbon is a novel carbon allotrope with many appealing properties. Since the proposal of T-carbon, there has…
The recent progress in chip-scale integrated photonics has stimulated the rapid development of material platforms with desired optical properties. Among the different material platforms that are currently investigated, the third-generation…
The exotic physical properties of graphene have led to intense research activities on the synthesis and characterization of graphene composites during the last decade. In this article the methods developed for preparation of such materials…
Catalyst-free vertically aligned graphene nanoflakes possessing a large amount of high density edge planes were functionalized using nitrogen species in a low energy N+ ion bombardment process to achieve pyridinic, cyanide and nitrogen…
Theoretical study of graphite (graphene) edge is done. The most stable edge orientation is calculated to be a zigzag [110] edge. Possible applications of the result to the formation of different graphitic structures are discussed.
Using density functional theory calculations, we have examined the structural stability, electronic, magnetic and optical properties of rectangular shaped quantum dots (QDs) of graphene (G), Boron Nitride (BN) and their hybrids. Different…
The covalent functionalization of graphene represents a main topic in the growing field of nano materials. The reductive exfoliation of graphite with concomitant functionalization of the respective graphenide intermediates provides a…
Nitrogen doped graphene and carbon nanotubes are popularly in focus as metal-free electro-catalysts for oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) central to fuel-cells. N doped CNTs have been also reported to chemisorb mutually, promising a route to…
Graphene, a single atomic layer of graphitic carbon, has attracted intense attention due to its extraordinary properties that make it a suitable material for a wide range of technological applications. Large-area graphene films, which are…
In this paper, we investigate, by molecular dynamics simulations, the mechanical properties of a new carbon nanostructure, termed graphene nanochain, constructed by sewing up pristine or twisted graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and interlocking…
We report on the thermal and electrical properties of hybrid epoxy composites with graphene and boron nitride fillers. The thicknesses, lateral dimensions, and aspect ratios of each filler material were intentionally selected for geometric…
Graph-structured data are an integral part of many application domains, including chemoinformatics, computational biology, neuroimaging, and social network analysis. Over the last two decades, numerous graph kernels, i.e. kernel functions…
Recent works devoted to the synthesis of artificial molecular systems with quasi-fractal geometry provide new opportunities for the experimental study of electronic properties in atomic systems of fractional dimension. There has been a…
The supramolecular preorganization approach can be applied to effectively fabricate various morphologies of graphitic carbon nitride(g-CN)with improved photocatalytic activity, while a comprehensive understanding for the morphology…
Graphdiyne and graphyne are carbon-based two-dimensional (2D) porous atomic lattices, with outstanding physics and excellent application prospects for advanced technologies, like nanoelectronics and energy storage systems. During the last…