Carbon nanofiber (CNF), as one of the most important members of carbon fibers, has been investigated in both fundamental scientific research and practical applications. CNF composites are able to be applied as promising materials in many fields, such as electrical devices, electrode materials for batteries and supercapacitors and as sensors. In these applications, the electrical conductivity is...

Chitin, an N-acetyl-D-glucosamine polymer, is a component of fungal cell walls and a microbe/pathogen-associated molecular pattern that elicits plant defense responses. As polymeric chitin is difficult to handle due to its insolubility in water, many studies on chitin-induced immune responses have used water-soluble low-molecular weight chitin instead. Thus, it is unclear if polymeric chitin ca...

Boolean Satisfiability solvers have gone through dramatic improvements in their performances and scalability over the last few years by considering symmetries. It has been shown that by using graph symmetries and generating symmetry breaking predicates (SBPs) it is possible to break symmetries in Conjunctive Normal Form (CNF). The SBPs cut down the search space to the nonsymmetric regions of th...

Optimizing the desired properties for stretch monolayer separators used in Lithium-ion batteries has been a challenge. In the present study a cellulose nanofiber/PET nonwoven composite separator is successfully fabricated, using a wet-laid nonwoven (papermaking) process, which can attain optimal properties in wettability, mechanical strength, thermal resistance, and electrochemical performance ...

where allRi and S are formulas in conjunctive normal form (CNF), and where in general all CNF formulas occurring in Fi contain the variable set Qi Each formula Fi is a Constrained Quantified Formula (CQF). For a given i ≥ 1, the problem of evaluating formula Fi is called CQF(i). Note that CQF(i) is at the ith complexity level of the polynomial hierarchy. In particular, CQF(i) is ΣPi complete if...

Metal sulfides with high specific capacities have drawn considerable attention in the field of sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). As a typical metal sulfide, FeV2S4 always suffers rapid decay because its low stability arising from large volume change. nanoparticles controllable sizes and distribution are encapsulated carbon nanofibers (CNFs) help graphene oxide (GO) to fabricate FeV2S4@GO@CNF. result...

Carbon nanofibre (CNF)/Al2O3 composites with concentrations between 1 and 9 vol.% of CNF were prepared by the traditional ceramic 1 *Corresponding author. Tel/Fax: +34 985733644. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.L. Menendez)

Bioactive films were produced by conjugation of a short peptide onto modified cellulose nanofibrils (CNF). Specifically, a hydrophilic copolymer, poly(2-aminoethyl methacrylate hydrochloride-co-2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate) (poly(AMA-co-HEMA)), was grafted via surface initiated polymerization from an initiator coupled to CNF. The poly(AMA-co-HEMA) was used as a spacer and support layer for immobi...