The growth of ultrathin ZnCo2O4 nanosheets on reduced graphene oxide (denoted as rGO/ZnCo2O4) via a facile low-temperature solution method combined with a subsequent annealing treatment is reported. With the assistance of citrate, interconnected ZnCo2O4 nanosheets can assemble into hierarchically porous overlays on both sides of rGO sheets. Such a hybrid nanostructure would effectively faciliat...

Carbon materials have been used in a wide range of applications, for instance, as electrodes, electrocatalysts, or electrocatalyst supports in energy-storage and -conversion devices, because of low costs, high electrical conductivity, chemical inertness, and thermal stability. Among the various carbon materials, nitrogen-doped carbon is of particular interest because it exhibits excellent elect...

The world is facing an energy crisis due to exponential population growth and limited availability of fossil fuels. Over the last 20 years, carbon, one of the most abundant materials found on earth, and its allotrope forms such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphene have been proposed as sources of energy generation and storage because of their extraordinary properties and ease of product...

Ultrathin CoMn2O4 nanosheets supported on reduced graphene oxide (rGO) are successfully synthesized through a simple co-precipitation method with a post-annealing treatment. With the assistance of citrate, the free-standing CoMn2O4 ultrathin nanosheets can form porous overlays on both sides of the rGO sheets. Such a novel hybrid nanostructure can effectively promote charge transport and accommo...

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Controllable preparation of nanopores to promote the performance of electrochemical biosensing interfaces has become one of the researching frontiers in biosensing. A double biocatalysis signal amplification of glucose biosensor for the study of electrochemical behaviors of glucose oxidase (GOx) was proposed by using horseradish peroxidase biosynthesized porous graphene (PGR) as the platform fo...

Materials. The PEDOT:PSS (Clevios PH 1000, 1 wt%) aqueous dispersion was purchased from Heraeus. Waterborne polyurethane (PU) was provided by DSM (China). Poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS, Sylgard 184, Dow Corning) prepolymer was prepared by mixing base silicone gel with a curing agent in a 10:1 weight ratio. Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) was purchased from Aladdin Chemistry Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China....

direct electron transferring of glucose oxidase was investigated   on reduced graphene and graphene oxide templates. the direct electrochemistry   glucose oxidase on   graphene showed a cyclic voltammograms corresponding to the fad/fadh 2   redox couple with an anodic, cathodic and formal potential of -430, -460 and   -445 mv, respectively in 0.1 m phosphate buffer solution and air saturated   ...

We report local density functional results that show that narrow nanotubes with optimized diameters between about 0.34 and 0.5 nm can be either semiconducting or metallic, but with electron structures near the Fermi level that often cannot be understood starting from the graphene sheet model, successful in the study of larger diameter tubes. Our total energy calculations indicate that narrow na...

Here, we demonstrate that Cobalt/cobalt oxide core-shell nanoparticles integrated on nitrogen-doped (N-doped) three-dimensional reduced graphene oxide aerogel-based architecture (Co/CoO-NGA) were synthesized through a facile hydrothermal method followed by annealing treatment. The unique endurable porous structure could provide sufficient mass transfer channels and ample active sites on Co/CoO-...