Graphitic carbon nitride nanosheet (g-C3N4-NS) has layered structure similar with graphene nanosheet and presents unusual physicochemical properties due to the s-triazine fragments. But their electronic and electrochemical applications are limited by the relatively poor conductivity. The current work provides the first example that atomically thick g-C3N4-NSs are the ideal candidate as the acti...

The Dion-Jacobson phase niobate perovskite, KCa2Nb3O10, was prepared by the polymerized complex (PC) method. The corresponding proton-exchanged material, HCa2Nb3O10, was then exfoliated by reaction with tetra(n-butyl)ammonium hydroxide (TBAOH), yielding unilamellar colloidal nanosheets whose lateral dimensions increased with the final calcination temperature in the PC synthesis. By restacking t...

We fabricated a sandwich-like branched-polyethyleneimine (b-PEI)/TiO2/Au/graphene oxide (GO) nanocomposite through a biomimetic layer-by-layer co-mineralization approach, and the polymer b-PEI was believed to act as both an inducing agent for the hydrolysis of titanium bis(ammonium lactato)-dihydroxide (Ti-BALDH) and a reducing agent for the reduction of HAuCl4 in the synthetic procedure. Upon ...

In this work, we report a dielectric nanocomposite paper with layered boron nitride (BN) nanosheets wired by one-dimensional (1D) nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) that has superior thermal and mechanical properties. These nanocomposite papers are fabricated from a filtration of BN and NFC suspensions, in which NFC is used as a stabilizer to stabilize BN nanosheets. In these nanocomposite papers,...

Cost-effective, abundant, and non-toxic SnS nanosheet semiconductors can be used as water-splitting cells. Herein, a photoanode based on high-purity highly crystalline nanosheets was fabricated. We sodium thiosulfate (Na2S2O3·5H2O) stannous chloride (SnCl2·2H2O) the tin sulfur source materials, in place of SnCl4 H2S gas, respectively, which have been previous studies. This gas-free fabrication ...

In this research, the ability of transition metals (TM)-doped graphene nanosheets to adsorb toxic gas CO has been investigated. The Langmuir adsorption model was used, with a three-layered ONIOM, using CAM-B3LYP functional accompanying LANL2DZ and 6-31+G (d,p) basis sets, Gaussian 16 revision C.01 program, on complexes adsorbed (Fe, Ni, Zn)-doped nanosheets. order changes charge density for Fe-...

In a visualized example of the ancient past connecting with modern times, we describe the preparation and exfoliation of CaCuSi4O10 and BaCuSi4O10, the colored components of the historic Egyptian blue and Han blue pigments. The bulk forms of these materials are synthesized by both melt flux and solid-state routes, which provide some control over the crystallite size of the product. The melt flu...

Grating-coupled propagating surface plasmons associated with silver-nanoparticle 2D crystalline sheets exhibit sensitive plasmonic resonance tuning. Multilayered silver-nanoparticle 2D crystalline sheets are fabricated on gold or silver grating surfaces by the Langmuir- Blodgett method. We show that the deposition of Ag crystalline nanosheets on Au or Ag grating surfaces causes a drastic change...

The two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide nanosheet-carbon composite is an attractive material for energy storage because of its high Faradaic activity, unique nanoconstruction and electronic properties. In this work, a facile one step preparation of a molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanosheet-graphene (MoS2/G) composite with the in situ reduction of graphene oxide is reported. The s...

ZnO nanorod arrays and nanodisk networks were grown directly on Si substrate by thermal evaporation of ZnCl(2) powder and a mixture of ZnCl(2) and InCl(3)·4H(2)O at 450 °C in air, respectively. The ZnO nanorods with the diameters of 0.64 to 0.91 μm and length of about 5.1 μm are single crystalline with the hexagonal structure and grow along the [001] direction. The nanodisk has perfect hexagona...