Nanocarbon-based sheets: Advances in processing methods and applications

As an emerging class of materials, nanocarbons have attracted significant interest for practical applications due to their remarkable mechanical, electrical and thermal properties coupled with high surface areas and tunable surface chemistry. However, challenges like high aspect ratios and poor dispersibility in polymer matrices hinder their...

Overview of Engineering Carbon Nanomaterials such as Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs), Carbon Nanofibers (CNFs), Graphene and Nanodiamonds and Other Carbon Allotropes inside Porous Anodic Alumina (PAA) Templates

The fabrication and design of carbon-based hierarchical structures with tailored nano-architectures have attracted the enormous attention of the materials science community due to their exceptional chemical and physical properties. The collective control of nano-objects, in terms of their dimensionality, orientation and size, is of paramount...

Dynamics of 2D material membranes

The dynamics of suspended two-dimensional (2D) materials has received increasing attention during the last decade, yielding new techniques to study and interpret the physics that governs the motion of atomically thin layers. This has led to insights into the role of thermodynamic and nonlinear effects as well as the mechanisms that govern...

Electrically conducting fibres for e-textiles: An open playground for conjugated polymers and carbon nanomaterials

Conducting fibres and yarns promise to become an essential part of the next generation of wearable electronics that seamlessly integrate electronic function into one of the most versatile and most widely used form of materials: textiles. This review explores the many types of conducting fibres and yarns that can be realised with conjugated...