Novel soft nanocomposite materials with unique organic/inorganic network structures have been developed by extending the strategy of "organic/inorganic nanocomposites" to the field of soft materials. The structures described here were synthesized by in-situ free-radical polymerization of various monomers in the presence of exfoliated clay (hectorite) in aqueous media. The nanocomposite hydrogel...

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A simple and scalable process was developed for the synthesis of highly crystalline magnetite nanocrystals embedded in a carbon matrix using low cost starting materials; the resulting nanocomposite showed a very high specific capacity of 863 mA hg(-1) in the initial cycle and high capacity retention of 90% after 30 cycles.

A family of nanostructured polyaniline (PANI) materials including polystyrene (PS)/PANI core/shell particles, PANI hollow spheres, PANI/PS nanocomposite and nanoporous PANI, were conveniently prepared by surface charge control of PS nanoparticle templates which resulted in different polymer growth mechanisms when PANI was electropolymerized around the templates.

This study indicated that multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)-epoxy composites can be used as effective lightweight shielding materials. The measurement results showed that highest EMI SE of 23.4 dB at 8 GHz was obtained for nanocomposite with 1 wt% MWCNTs. Dielectric properties and electrical conductivity values were supplemented by microscopic studies.

BiFeO3–CoFe2O4 nanocomposite thin films R. Muralidharan, N. Dix, V. Skumryev, M. Varela, F. Sánchez, and J. Fontcuberta Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona-CSIC, Campus UAB, Bellaterra 08193, Spain Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain Departament de Física Aplicada i Òptica and Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (IN2UB), Universitat de Barcelon...

Optical and nonlinear-optical properties of negativeindex nanocomposite as well as the feasibility of a design of novel photonic microdevices and all-optical data processing chips are numerically simulated. Keywords—Numerical simulation, nano materials and nanostructures, negative-index metamaterials, nanophotonics, nano and micro devices, all-optical switches, optical frequency narrow-band fil...

The area of smart materials is a hot topic as it allows access to adaptive/responsive materials with selfhealing, shape memory, or actuation behavior. Indeed, scientists can make all manner of materials on-scale with controllable and remarkable properties, but designing materials with mechanical adaptability is much more challenging. Although the sea cucumber might seem like an unlikely source ...

Alumina-zirconia nano-composites were recently developed as alternative bearing materials for orthopedics. Previous, preliminary reports show that such alumina-zirconia nanocomposites exhibit high crack resistance and low wear rate. In this paper, additional information is given in terms of wear, crack resistance and ageing behaviour: femoral heads are inspected after 7 million cycles of wear t...