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Kostaras, Christos (author), Pavlou, C. (author), Galiotis, Costas (author), Dassios, Konstantinos G. (author)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...review 2024
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Belardinelli, P. (author), Lenci, S. (author), Alijani, F. (author)Through molecular dynamics simulations, we demonstrate the possibility of internal resonances in single-walled carbon nanotubes. The resonant condition is engineered with a lack of symmetry in the boundary condition and activated by increasing the energy exchange with a coupled thermal bath. The critical temperature threshold for initiating...journal article 2024
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Kunati, Nikhil (author)The primary objective of this study was to address the lack of understanding of the commercial- scale implementation of novel CO2 based carbon nanomaterial (CNM) production and its comparison with status quo CNM production processes using unsustainable fossil resources. To accomplish this objective, first, a literature review was performed on...master thesis 2023
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Sacco, L.N. (author), Vollebregt, S. (author)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...review 2023
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Li, Hongyan (author), Li, Z. (author), Qiu, Liangsheng (author), Dong, Sufen (author), Ouyang, Jian (author), Dong, Xufeng (author), Han, Baoguo (author)This study aims to understand the effects and mechanisms of length, diameter, and functional group of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on rheological behaviors of cementitious composites. The experimental results show that the addition of CNTs decreases the flow index and increases the critical shear rate of cementitious composites. CNTs with a sub...journal article 2023
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Qiao, Danyu (author)In recent decades, fibre-reinforced polymer composite structures have seen increased aerospace applications. A typical composite structural element widely used in primary load-bearing aircraft components is the T-joint, which is formed when two orthogonal laminates are joined in a T-shaped arrangement to enable out-of-plane load transfer. Under...master thesis 2022
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Subramanian, N. (author), Bisagni, C. (author)The effectiveness of carbonaceous nanoparticles in arresting and delaying damage in nanocomposites has been attributed to multiscale toughening mechanisms. To explore their application in joined interfaces of composites, this study investigates the use of carbon nanotube (CNT) interleaved films for co-cured joining of composite parts and their...conference paper 2022
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Doust Mohammadi, Mohsen (author), Abdullah, Hewa Y. (author), Bhowmick, Somnath (author), Biskos, G. (author)The ability of carbon- and silicon-based nanotubes, including pure carbon, silicon carbide, and Ge-doped silicon carbide nanotubes (CNT, SiCNT, SiCGeNT, respectively), for sensing highly toxic dichlorosilane (H2SiCl2) are investigated using quantum chemistry calculations. The intermolecular interactions between the sensing material and the gas...journal article 2022
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Akram, Naveed (author), Hosseini, M. (author), Sadri, Rad (author), Kazi, S.N. (author), Kasaeian, Alibakhsh (author), Yarmand, H. (author), Hooman, K. (author), Ahmad, Roslina (author)In the present research, the synthesis of highly stable multiwalled carbon nanotubes in aqueous media is developed using a one-pot, covalent and green functionalization technique to improve the heat transfer and hydrodynamic behavior of a horizontal stainless-steel tube subjected to a uniform heat flow at its outer surface. Instead of using...journal article 2022
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Wang, H. (author), Tao, Jie (author), Jin, Kai (author), Wang, Xiaoyue (author), Dong, Ying (author)A flexible sensor with excellent pressure, temperature, and bending sensitivity is fabricated based on the conductive skeleton material with hierarchical porous structure. The conductive skeleton material is composed of carbon fibres (CFs) and multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), in which lay perpendicular to each other CFs are used as...journal article 2022
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SHANKAR, SHREYAS (author)Silicon-based MEMS technology has been the standard for developing 2D and 3D<br/>micro-structures for many years. There are 2 main classifications of MEMS manufacturing technologies, viz. bulk micro-machining, and surface micro-machining.<br/>These techniques have its own set of drawbacks. Bulk micro-machining affects the structural integrity of...master thesis 2021
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Imanian Ghazanlou, Siavash (author), Eghbali, Baitallah (author), Petrov, R.H. (author)The effects of the post-deformation annealing on the microstructural evolution of hot rolled Al7075 matrix composites reinforced with CNTs and GNPs were investigated. The multi-pass hot rolling was applied on the stir cast samples. Annealing was then applied to the composites at 450 °C for 4 h. Microstructural evolution was examined by SEM,...journal article 2021
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Staal, Jeroen (author), Caglar, Baris (author), Hank, Travis (author), Wardle, Brian L. (author), Gorbatikh, Larissa (author), Lomov, Stepan V. (author), Michaud, Véronique (author)In-plane permeability of small area (100 × 50 mm) alumina fiber woven fabrics grafted with aligned carbon nanotubes (CNT) was quantified by placing them in series with a glass mat of known permeability during a flow experiment. The methodology was first validated on a reference woven textile. Permeability values matched those obtained by a...journal article 2021
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Kurupath, Vishnu Prasad (author), Kannam, Sridhar Kumar (author), Hartkamp, Remco (author), Sathian, Sarith P. (author)Biological nanopores such as aquaporins combine the opposing functions of high water permeation and total ion exclusion in part by the virtue of their hourglass shape. Here, we perform molecular dynamics simulations to examine water and ion conduction through hourglass shaped nanopores created from carbon nanotubes (CNTs) of chirality (6,6), ...journal article 2021
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Remes, Adriana (author), Manea, Florica (author), Motoc, Sorina (author), Baciu, Anamaria (author), Szerb, Elisabeta I. (author), Gascon, Jorge (author), Gug, Georgiana (author)A novel electrochemical glucose sensor was developed, based on a multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)-copper-1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid (CuBTC)-epoxy composite electrode, named MWCNT-CuBTC. The electrode nanocomposite was prepared by a two-roll mill procedure and characterized morphostructurally by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The...journal article 2020
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Charitos, Ilias (author), Drougkas, A. (author), Kontou, Evagelia (author)In the present work, the effective elastic modulus of carbon nanotube (CNT) polymer nanocomposites has been evaluated through micromechanics modeling and finite element analysis (FEA). In the micromechanics model, the inherent trend of CNTs to aggregate is taken into account, considering a two-phase material system, that of the matrix with the...journal article 2020
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Sam, Alan (author), Hartkamp, Remco (author), Kumar Kannam, Sridhar (author), Babu, Jeetu S. (author), Sathian, Sarith P. (author), Daivis, Peter J. (author), Todd, B. D. (author)The intriguing mass transport properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have received widespread attention, especially the rapid transport of water through CNTs due to their atomically smooth wall interiors. Extensive research has been dedicated to the comprehension of various aspects of water flow in contact with CNTs, the most prominent ones...journal article 2020
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Mirza Gheytaghi, Amir (author), Poelma, René H. (author), Sacco, L.N. (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)In this paper, the compressive stress of pristine and coated vertically-aligned (VA) multi-walled (MW) carbon nanotube (CNT) pillars were investigated using flat-punch nano-indentation. VA-MWCNT pillars of various diameters (30–150 µm) grown by low-pressure chemical vapor deposition on silicon wafer. A conformal brittle coating of niobium...journal article 2020
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Shooshtari, M. (author), Salehi, Alireza (author), Vollebregt, S. (author)Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have shown promising results for gas sensing due to their high surface area. Since humidity has a great impact on the electrical conductivity of resistive CNT gas sensors, we have investigated the change of humidity on their sensing properties. In this study, we fabricated vertically aligned CNT-based gas sensors for the...journal article 2020
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Bormann, Sebastian (author), van Schie, M.M.C.H. (author), Pedroso de Almeida, T. (author), Zhang, W. (author), Stöckl, Markus (author), Ulber, Roland (author), Hollmann, F. (author), Holtmann, Dirk (author)Various enzymes utilize hydrogen peroxide as an oxidant. Such “peroxizymes” are potentially very attractive catalysts for a broad range of oxidation reactions. Most peroxizymes, however, are inactivated by an excess of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>. The electrochemical reduction of oxygen can be used as an in situ generation method for hydrogen...journal article 2019