The current study investigated the fabrication of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) adhering to Barium titanate (BaTiO3) nanoparticles and poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) nanocomposites, as well impact MWCNT on PVDF-BaTiO3 matrix in terms dielectric constant loss with a view develop high performance piezoelectric energy harvester future. capacity potential as-prepared nanocomposite films ...

Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) on a grid supported cobalt nanocatalyst were grown, by exposing it to combustion gases from ethylene/air rich premixed flames. Ten equivalence ratios (φ) were investigated, as follows: 1.37, 1.44, 1.47, 1.50, 1.55, 1.57, 1.62, 1.75, 1.82, and 1.91. MWCNT growth could be observed for the range of equivalence ratios between 1.45 and 1.75, with the best yield ...

In the field of regenerative medicine, numerous potential applications of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can be envisaged, due to their ability to differentiate into a range of tissues on the basis of the substrate on which they grow. With the advances in nanotechnology, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been widely explored for use as cell culture substrate in tissue engineering applications. In thi...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have shown tremendous progress during the past two decades due to their extraordinary properties. With CNTs added as an alloying element, various engineering materials exhibit better mechanical Multi-walled carbon (MWCNT) were synthesized in-house by chemical vapor deposition process. nanotube-reinforced aluminum composites prepared cold pressing (or compaction) and sint...

One of the major challenges towards controlling the transfer of electrical and mechanical properties of nanotubes into nanocomposites is the lack of adequate measurement systems to quantify the variations in bulk properties while the nanotubes were used as the reinforcement material. In this study, we conducted one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) on thickness and conductivity measurements. By ...

Metallic substrates and polymer adhesive in composite-metal joints have a relatively large coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) mismatch, which is barrier the growing market electric vehicles their battery structures. It reported that adding carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to reduces CTE CNT-enhanced multi-material system, therefore when used adhesively bonded it would, theoretically, result low mism...

Mesoporous lithium titanate (LTO) nanoclusters are in situ synthesized in a network of super aligned carbon nanotubes (SACNTs) via a solution-based method followed by heat treatment in air. In the LTO-CNT composite, SACNTs not only serve as the skeleton to support a binder-free electrode, but also render the composite with high conductivity, flexibility, and mechanical strength. The homogeneous...

The compressive strain sensor is an extensively used flexible electronic device because of its capability to convert mechanical deformation electrical signal. However, the difficulty in tuning performance limits further applications. Herein, approach fabricating a carbon nanotube (CNT)/polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) sensor, which has both tunable and performances, presented. CNT plays role reinfor...

The numerous increasing use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) derived from nanotechnology has raised concerns about their biosafety and potential toxicity. CNTs cause immunologic dysfunction and limit the application of CNTs in biomedicine. The immunological responses induced by pristine multi-walled carbon nanotubes (p-MWCNTs) and PEGylated multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs-PEG) on BALB/c mice vi...

Design of composite materials for ammonia (NH3) sensing is important because of two main reasons: (1) NH3 is the most common substitute for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in cooling systems, and (2) most sensors show long recovery times at room temperature due to the tendency of ammonia to strongly interact with many substrates. Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) have been used to sense polar mo...