In this review, we summarize research efforts to realize Na-based organic materials for novel battery chemistries. Na is a more abundant element than Li, thereby contributing to less costly materials with limited to no geopolitical constraints while organic electrode materials harvested from biomass resources provide the possibility of achieving renewable battery components with low environment...

1 Purdue University, USA Hosei University, Japan E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] Electronically active materials, once largely the domain of inorganic metals and semiconductors, have become increasingly organic in character. Contemporary electronic materials such as light-emitting device (LED) displays, photovoltaic cells, and thin-film transistors (TFTs) all feature organic mo...

Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Functional Metal-Organic Framework Materials Badriah J. Alamer Over the past few decades, vast majority of industrial and academic research throughout the world has witnessed the emergence of materials that can serve as ideal candidates for potential utility in desired applications, and these materials are known as Metal Organic Framework (MOFs). This e...

This paper compared the effectiveness of four organic materials for decreasing the amounts of soil extractable Cr(VI) in Cr(VI)-contaminated soils using the DOWEX M4195 resin-extraction method. Organic matters were added into Cr(VI)-spiked soils [500 mg Cr(VI)(kgsoil)(-1)] in the form of sugarcane dregs compost (SCDC), cattle-dung compost (CDC), soybean meal (SBM) and rice bran (RB), in the amo...

We fabricated sub-wavelength periodic structures by thermal nano-imprinting using our original functionally modified inorganic–organic hybrid materials. The fabricated structures exhibited excellent uniformity and surface smoothness over a large imprinted area. In addition, optical transmittance is more than 90% within visible wavelength regions after heat treatment for 2 h at 300 C. These nano...

At the beginning of the second phase (Phase II) of the Frontier Materials Research Program in 1991, former Bioelectronic Materials activities were complemented by the Advanced Materials program and merged into the Laboratory for Exotic Nano-Materials. Since the initiation of Exotic Nano-Materials research, we have been committed to nanoscopic science and engineering, and unconventional combinat...

In this Part I, of a two-part paper, we present a detailed continuum-mechanical development of a thermomechanically coupled elasto-viscoplasticity theory to model the strain rate and temperature dependent largedeformation response of amorphous polymeric materials. Such a theory, when further specialized (Part II) should be useful for modeling and simulation of the thermo-mechanical response of ...

Organic chemistry plays an important role in the development of high-performance rechargeable batteries exceeding Li-ion batteries using LiCoO2 as a cathode-active material. The authors implemented the high-capacity rechargeable batteries using trioxotriangulene (TOT) stable neutral radicals with four-stage redox ability as cathode-active materials. These batteries showed the capacity of 311 A ...

Over the past half century, low dielectric materials have been intensively researched by ceramic and polymer scientists. However, these materials possess a vast myriad of electrical, thermal, chemical, and mechanical properties that are just as crucial as the name that classifies them. Therefore, in many cases, the applications of low dielectric constant materials are dictated by these other pr...

Laser mass spectrometry is a powerful tool for the sensitive, selective, and spatially resolved analysis of organic compounds in extraterrestrial materials. Using microprobe two-step laser mass spectrometry (muL(2)MS), we have explored the organic composition of many different exogenous materials, including meteorites, interplanetary dust particles, and interstellar ice analogs, gaining signifi...