Related papers: Remarkable thermal stability of BF3-doped polyanil…
Polyaniline and graphene nanoplatelets (PANI-GNP) nanocomposites are synthesized by in situ oxidative polymerization of polyaniline using an oxidizing agent, ammonium peroxy disulphate (APS). The mass of GNP in the nanocomposites varied by…
We show that newly found BF3-doped polyaniline, though highly conducting, remains amorphous. Magnetic studies reveal many unusual properties, while suggesting that the intrinsic conductivity of this system is significantly larger than all…
High dielectric constant nano composite of Polyaniline (PANI) CaCu3Ti4O12 (CCTO) was synthesized using a simple procedure involving in-situ polymerization of aniline in dil. HCl. The PANI and the composite were subjected to X-ray…
Hexagonal borocarbonitrides (BCN) are a class of 2D materials, which display excellent catalytic activity for water splitting. Here, we report analysis of thermal stability, phonons and thermal conductivity of BCN monolayers over a wide…
The biphenylene network (BPN) is a notable achievement in recent fabrication endeavors for conceiving new 2D materials. The stability of its boron nitride counterpart, BN-BPN, has been confirmed through numerical investigations. In this…
We developed a generalized model that considers light as energy contributed through the thermalization of excited carriers to generate excitation-intensity- and temperature-dependent phase diagrams. We find that the model replicates the…
Delamination is one of the major concerns for carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites. Improving fracture toughness reduces delamination and allows for the creation of multifunctional CFRP. In this study, polyaniline (PANI) coated…
The photothermal energy conversion in hanging and floating polyaniline (PANi)-cotton fabrics is investigated using a model based on the heat diffusion equation. Perfect absorption and anti-reflection of wet hanging PANi-cotton fabrics cause…
Superconductivity in two-dimensional compounds is widely concerned, not only due to its application in constructing nano-superconducting devices, but also for the general scientific interests. Very recently, borophene (two-dimensional boron…
Very recently, a new graphene-like crystalline, hole-free, 2D-single-layer carbon nitride C3N, has been fabricated by polymerization of 2,3-diaminophenazine and used to fabricate a field-effect transistor device with an on-off current ratio…
Carbon biphenylene network (C-BPN), which is an ultra-thin material consisting of carbon atoms arranged in square-hexagonal-octagonal (4-6-8) periodic rings, has intriguing properties for nano-scale device design due to its unique crystal…
Na3Bi has attracted significant interest in both bulk form as a three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetal and in ultra-thin form as a wide-bandgap two-dimensional topological insulator. Its extreme air sensitivity has limited…
Carbon based two-dimensional (2D) materials with honeycomb lattices, like graphene, polyaniline carbon-nitride (C$_3$N) and boron-carbide (BC$_3$) exhibit exceptional physical properties. On this basis, we propose two novel graphene-like…
Two-dimensional polyaniline monolayer (C3N) has been recently synthesized as an indirect semiconductor with high electron mobility. In this research, with combination of density functional theory and Green function formalism, we investigate…
Alkali doped aromatic compounds have shown evidence of metallic and superconducting phases whose precise nature is still mysterious. In potassium and rubidium doped phenanthrene, superconducting temperatures around 5 K have been detected,…
The thermal transport properties of biphenylene network (BPN), a novel sp2 -hybridized two-dimensional allotrope of carbon atoms recently realized in experiments [Fan et al., Science, 372 852-856 (2021)], are studied using the density…
Among the hybrid metal-organic perovskites for photovoltaic applications FAPbI_3 (FAPI) has the best performance regarding efficiency and the worst regarding stability, even though the reports on its stability are highly contradictory. In…
Graphene has been widely studied for various applications due to its outstanding electrical and mechanical properties. However, its potential in thermoelectric applications has been limited by a low Seebeck coefficient and high thermal…
Few-layer black phosphorus (BP), also known as phosphorene, is poised to be the most attractive graphene analogue owing to its high mobility approaching that of graphene, and its thickness- tunable band gap that can be as large as that of…
The electronic structure of the conjugated polymer, polyaniline, has been studied by resonant and nonresonant X-ray emission spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation for the excitation. The measurements were made on polyaniline and a few…