Porous silicon carbide (SiC): a chance for improving catalysts or just another active-phase carrier?

G Tuci, Y Liu, A Rossin, X Guo, C Pham… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
There is an obvious gap between efforts dedicated to the control of chemicophysical and
morphological properties of catalyst active phases and the attention paid to the search of …

Inorganic nanotubes and fullerene-like nanoparticles

R Tenne - Journal of materials research, 2006 - cambridge.org
We have proposed in 1992 that nanoparticles of layered compounds will be unstable
against folding and close into fullerene-like structures and nanotubes (IF). Nanotubes and …

Curvature effects regulate the catalytic activity of Co@ N4-doped carbon nanotubes as bifunctional ORR/OER catalysts

N Ma, Y Zhang, Y Wang, J Zhao, B Liang… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The advancement of metal-air batteries relies significantly on the development of highly
efficient bifunctional catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution …

Electronic structures of SiC nanoribbons

L Sun, Y Li, Z Li, Q Li, Z Zhou, Z Chen… - The Journal of chemical …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
Electronic structures of SiC nanoribbons have been studied by spin-polarized first-principles
calculations. The armchair nanoribbons are nonmagnetic semiconductors, while the zigzag …

Structural, elastic, and electronic properties of SiC, BN, and BeO nanotubes

B Baumeier, P Krüger, J Pollmann - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2007 - APS
We present the results of a comparative ab initio study of single-walled SiC, BN, and BeO
nanotubes (NTs) in zigzag and armchair configurations. Within density functional theory, we …

SiC2 Silagraphene and Its One-Dimensional Derivatives: Where Planar Tetracoordinate Silicon Happens

Y Li, F Li, Z Zhou, Z Chen - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The periodic systems containing planar tetracoordinate silicon (ptSi), SiC2 silagraphene,
nanotubes, and nanoribbons, were predicted by means of density functional theory (DFT) …

An ab initio study on gas sensing properties of graphene and Si-doped graphene

Y Zou, F Li, ZH Zhu, MW Zhao, XG Xu… - The European Physical …, 2011 - Springer
In order to exploit the potential applications of graphene as gas sensors, the adsorptions of a
series of small gas molecules (such as CO, O 2, NO 2 and H 2 O) on pristine graphene (PG) …

Light metal functionalized two-dimensional siligene for high capacity hydrogen storage: DFT study

AN Sosa, BJ Cid, A Miranda, LA Perez… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, the hydrogen storage capacities of two-dimensional siligene (2D-SiGe)
functionalized with alkali metal (AM) and alkali-earth metal (AEM) atoms were studied using …

Optical properties of nanotubes: An ab initio study

IJ Wu, GY Guo - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2007 - APS
The band structure and optical dielectric function ϵ of single-walled zigzag [(3, 0),(4, 0),(5,
0),(6, 0),(8, 0),(9, 0),(12, 0),(16, 0),(20, 0),(24, 0)], armchair [(3, 3),(4, 4),(5, 5),(8, 8),(12 …

[HTML][HTML] Vibrational analysis of double-walled silicon carbide nano-cones: a finite element investigation

S Nickabadi, R Ansari, B Golmohammadi… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
A three-dimensional finite element model is used to investigate the vibrational properties of
double-walled silicon carbide nano-cones with various dimensions. The dependence of the …