A crystalline and porous covalent imine network material, Tp-THzT-CIN, has been synthesized when it is coupled with reduced graphene oxide, yields a 2D/2D composite, which an excellent anode material in lithium-ion batteries.

The assessment of the influence of the work-hardening of material on the optimum die profile and drawing force  in rod drawing process is the main objective of the present paper. The upper bound solution, based on the assumption of perfect plasticity, has been extended to consider the work-hardening of the material during the rod drawing process through curved dies. Analytical results of drawin...

Temperature degrading of magnet material is of mayor interest in many applications. Segmented rare earth Halbach arrays are subject to an augmented temperature degrading effect due to local demagnetisation. This paper presents results using a parameter-based material demagnetisation model. Measurement results of high temperature Halbach arrays are validated with 2D FEA.

A water-soluble crude polysaccharide preparation (GFP) was obtained from Grifola frondosa fruit bodies by hot water (100 °C) extraction, followed by ethanol (75%) precipitation. Purified polysaccharides, GFP75-2D was obtained from the crude material by successive fractionation using DEAE-Sepharose Fast Flow ion exchange chromatography and Sephacryl S gel filtration chromatography. GFP75-2D main...

We have explored a facile technique to transfer large area 2-Dimensional (2D) materials grown by chemical vapor deposition method onto various substrates by adding a water-soluble Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) layer between the polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) and the 2D material film. This technique not only allows the effective transfer to an arbitrary target substrate with a high degree of freedom, ...

Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials consist of covalently bonded 2D atomic layers stacked by van der Waals interactions. Such anisotropic bonding nature gives rise to the orientation-dependent functionalities of the 2D layered materials. Different from most studies of 2D materials with their atomic layers parallel to substrate, we have recently developed layer vertically aligned 2D material ...

The room-temperature synthesis of a new two-dimensional (2D) zirconium-containing carbide, Zr3C2T(z) MXene is presented. In contrast to traditional preparation of MXene, the layered ternary Zr3Al3C5 material instead of MAX phases is used as source under hydrofluoric acid treatment. The structural, mechanical, and electronic properties of the synthesized 2D carbide are investigated, combined wit...

Plasmonics has developed for decades in the field of condensed matter physics and optics. Based on the classical Maxwell theory, collective excitations exhibit profound light-matter interaction properties beyond classical physics in lots of material systems. With the development of nanofabrication and characterization technology, ultra-thin two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials attract tremendous ...

In this paper we explain two functional models for entropy based image segmentation: using global 2D and 3D image histograms of grayscale images. We compare results obtained by both methods for different type of images such as: biomedical and micro objects, digital video records and natural photographs. Short introduction of multistage gradient 3D entropy segmentation for texture analysis is al...