Carbon features, July 2014

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Webinar Q&A: MXenes: a new family of two-dimensional materials

Read Yury Gogotsi's responses to his webinar: MXenes: a new family of two-dimensional materials.

10 November 2014Zara Preston

Efficiency of ab-initio total energy calculations for metals and semiconductors using a plane-wave basis set

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7 November 2014G. Kresse, J. Furthmüller

Microfabrication, characterization and in vivo MRI compatibility of diamond microelectrodes array for neural interfacing

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23 October 2014Clément Héberta, Jan Warnking, Antoine Depaulis, Laurie Amandine Garçona, Michel Mermoux, David Eon, Pascal Mailley, Franck Omnès

Graphene-based materials of hybrid, 3D frameworks, and thin films for supercapacitors

22 October 2014Zhong-Shuai Wu

Mussel-inspired, ultralight, multifunctional 3D nitrogen-doped graphene aerogel

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21 October 2014Xinhong Song, Liping Lin, Mingcong Rong, Yiru Wang, Zhaoxiong Xie, Xi Chen

Nano-scale mapping of lattice strain and orientation inside carbon core SiC fibres by synchrotron X-ray diffraction

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30 September 2014Nikolaos Baimpas, Alexander J.G. Lunt, Igor P. Dolbnya, Jiri Dluhos, Alexander M. Korsunsky

Lightweight, conductive hollow fibers from nature as sustainable electrode materials for microbial energy harvesting

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29 September 2014Hongli Zhu, Heming Wang, Yuanyuan Li, Wenzhong Bao, Zhiqiang Fang, Colin Preston, Zac Barcikowski, Oeyvind Vaaland, Zhiyong Ren, Liangbing Hu

Enhancement of fracture toughness of carbon fiber laminated composites using multi wall carbon nanotubes

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15 September 2014Vahid Mirjalili, Rajaprakash Ramachandramoorthy, Pascal Hubert

Interview with Subra Suresh

Subra Suresh shares his thoughts on the Elsevier Materials Science Council and its role within the materials science research community.

9 September 2014Cordelia Sealy

Nanocarbon aerogel complexes inspired by the leaf structure

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1 August 2014Jing Zhonga, Jing Meng, Xuchun Gui, Tao Hu, Ning Xie, Xiaoyan Lu, Zhenyu Yang, Nikhil Koratkar

Tough and flexible CNT–polymeric hybrid scaffolds for engineering cardiac constructs

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23 July 2014Mahshid Kharaziha, Su Ryon Shin, Mehdi Nikkhah, Seda Nur Topkaya, Nafiseh Masoumi, Nasim Annabi, Mehmet R. Dokmeci, Ali Khademhosseini

A green approach for the reduction of graphene oxide nanosheets using non-aromatic amino acids

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14 July 2014Diana N.H. Tran, Shervin Kabiri, Dusan Losic

Roll-to-roll synthesis of vertically aligned carbon nanotube electrodes for electrical double layer capacitors

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7 July 2014Margarita R. Arcila-Velez, Jingyi Zhu, Anthony Childress, Mehmet Karakaya, Ramakrishna Podila, Apparao M. Rao, Mark E. Roberts.

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Spore germinator-loaded polysaccharide microspheres ameliorate colonic inflammation and tumorigenesis through remodeling gut microenvironment

Volume 63, Pages 32–49Ji-Yan Qiao, Meng-Wei Cao, Zi-Yi Han, Xuan Zeng, Xian-Zheng Zhang

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Carbon features, July 2014

Webinar Q&A: MXenes: a new family of two-dimensional materials

Efficiency of ab-initio total energy calculations for metals and semiconductors using a plane-wave basis set

Microfabrication, characterization and in vivo MRI compatibility of diamond microelectrodes array for neural interfacing

Graphene-based materials of hybrid, 3D frameworks, and thin films for supercapacitors

Mussel-inspired, ultralight, multifunctional 3D nitrogen-doped graphene aerogel

Nano-scale mapping of lattice strain and orientation inside carbon core SiC fibres by synchrotron X-ray diffraction

Lightweight, conductive hollow fibers from nature as sustainable electrode materials for microbial energy harvesting

Enhancement of fracture toughness of carbon fiber laminated composites using multi wall carbon nanotubes

Interview with Subra Suresh

Nanocarbon aerogel complexes inspired by the leaf structure

Tough and flexible CNT–polymeric hybrid scaffolds for engineering cardiac constructs

A green approach for the reduction of graphene oxide nanosheets using non-aromatic amino acids

Roll-to-roll synthesis of vertically aligned carbon nanotube electrodes for electrical double layer capacitors

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Spore germinator-loaded polysaccharide microspheres ameliorate colonic inflammation and tumorigenesis through remodeling gut microenvironment

Efficient non-viral CAR-T cell generation via silicon-nanotube-mediated transfection

Defect engineering of photocatalysts for solar-driven conversion of CO2 into valuable fuels

Etching of two-dimensional materials

2D photocatalysts with tuneable supports for enhanced photocatalytic water splitting