The past 3 decades of thorough scientific scrutiny of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) revealed
that, in spite of their remarkable properties, some technological applications are adversely …

Freestanding composite structures with embedded transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDCs) as the active material are highly attractive in the development of advanced …

Carbon dots (CDs) have attracted rapidly growing interest in recent years due to their unique
and tunable optical properties, the low cost of fabrication, and their widespread uses …

Much progress has been made in developing high capacity lithium ion battery electrode
materials such as silicon anodes. With the powerful nanomaterial design approach, cycle life …

Lithium iron phosphate is a promising cathode material for the use in hybrid electrical
vehicles (HEV) meeting the demands of good stability during cycling and safe operation due …

Biochar is traditionally used as solid fuel and for soil amendment where its electrical
conductivity is largely irrelevant and unexplored. However, electrical conductivity is critical to …

Catalytic condensers stabilize charge on either side of a high-k dielectric film to modulate
the electronic states of a catalytic layer for the electronic control of surface reactions. Here …

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) can be utilized to characterize battery
features, because it allows the dynamics of each elemental process of the battery reaction to …

Abstract Silicon (Si) and Silicon Monoxide (SiO) have been considered as anode materials
for the next-generation Li-ion batteries (LiBs) based on their high energy density. A …

Carbon nanostructures have been of increasing interest since the early 1990s because of
their excellent material properties and light weight. Carbon nanofibers (CNFs) synthesized …