Controllable preparation of metal nanoparticle/carbon nanotube hybrids as efficient dark field light scattering agents for cell imaging.

Real-time monitoring of oxidative etching on single Ag nanocubes via light-scattering dark-field microscopy imaging.

A low-cost and easily-conducted light-scattering dark-field microscopy imaging (iDFM) technique for real-time and in situ monitoring of the oxidative etching on a single Ag nanocube was presented by using an ordinary dark-field microscopy system, which provides an alternative approach to study the behaviors of metal nanoparticles in chemical reactions and biological processes at the single nano...

Organic/Inorganic Gate Dielectrics for Flexible Electronics Template-Based Preparation of PbTiO3 Nanograins Platinum Binuclear Complexes as Dopants for OLEDs Efficient Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube/Nanoparticle Hybrids

Controllable synthesis of silver nanoparticle-decorated reduced graphene oxide hybrids for ammonia detection.

We demonstrate controllable fabrication of Ag nanoparticle (NP)-decorated reduced graphene oxide (RGO/Ag) hybrids and their application for fast and selective detection of ammonia at room temperature. Ag NPs greatly improved the sensitivity of RGO. The response time (6 s) and recovery time (10 s) are comparable with our previous Ag NP-decorated multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT/Ag) NH3 sensors...

Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube/SiO2and Carbon Nanotube/SiO2/Ag Nanoparticles Hybrids by Using Plasma Treatment

Based on plasma-treated single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), SWCNT/SiO(2) and thiol groups-functionalized SWCNT/SiO(2) hybrids have been fabricated through a sol-gel process. By means of thiol groups, Ag nanoparticles have been in situ synthesized and bonded onto the SiO(2) shell of SWCNT/SiO(2) in the absence of external reducing agent, resulting in the stable carbon nanotube/SiO(2)/Ag nanop...

Active and stable carbon nanotube/nanoparticle composite electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction

Nanostructured carbon-based materials, such as nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube arrays, Co3O4/nitrogen-doped graphene hybrids and carbon nanotube-graphene complexes have shown respectable oxygen reduction reaction activity in alkaline media. Although certainly promising, the performance of these materials does not yet warrant implementation in the energy conversion/storage devices utilizing basic...