In this paper, I shall discuss a problem that arises when you try to combine an attractive account of what constitutes evidence with an independently plausible account of the kind of access we have to our evidence. According to E=K, our evidence consists of what we know. According to the principle of armchair access, we can know from the armchair what our evidence is. Combined, these claims ent...

Tremendous impacts are usually made by the synthesis method and consolidation technique on microstructure interface of graphene/Al composites. In present work, an in situ gel-precursor decomposition route is proposed for one-step graphene nanosheet (GNS) decorated with Cu nanoparticles form hybrid layers encapsulating Al grains (designated as GNS–Cu/Al). Consolidation performed spark plasma sin...

A generalization of the GNS-representation is investigated that represents partial ∗-algebras as systems of operators acting on a partial inner product space (PIP -space). It is based on possibly indefinite B-weights which are closely related to the positive B-weights introduced by J.-P. Antoine, Y. Soulet and C. Trapani. Some additional assumptions had to be made in order to guarantee the GNS-...

Nickel oxide-decorated graphene nanosheet (NiO/GNS), as a novel non-enzymatic electrocatalyst for glucose oxidation reaction (GOR), was synthesized through a facile hydrothermal route followed by the heat treatment. The successful synthesis of NiO/GNS was characterized by a series of techniques including XRD, BET, SEM and TEM. Significantly, the NiO/GNS catalyst show excellent catalytic activit...

In graphene edges or nanographene, the presence of edges strongly affects the electronic structure depending on their edge shape (zigzag and armchair edges) as observed with the electron wave interference and the creation of non-bonding π -electron state (edge state). We investigate the edge-inherent electronic features and the magnetic properties of edge-sate spins in nanographene/graphene edg...

A generalization of the GNS-representation is investigated that represents partial ∗-algebras as systems of operators acting on a partial inner product space (PIP -space). It is based on possibly indefinite B-weights which are closely related to the positive B-weights introduced by J.-P. Antoine, Y. Soulet and C. Trapani. Some additional assumptions had to be made in order to guarantee the GNS-...

geometrical structure, nuclear magnetic resonance (n1,1it) chemical shielding tensors, and chemical shiftsof silicon and carbon nucler are investigated for twn infinite size zigzag and armchair single-walled siliconcarbide nanotabes (sicnts). geometrical structures of sients, sit bonds and bond angles of st and cvertices in both zigzag and armchair nanotubes, indicate that bond lengths are appr...

We study the conductance of graphene nanoribbons with long-range disorder. Due to the absence of intervalley scattering from the disorder potential, time-reversal symmetry (TRS) can be effectively broken even without a magnetic field, depending on the type of ribbon edge. Even though armchair edges generally mix valleys, we show that metallic armchair nanoribbons possess a hidden pseudovalley s...

Si@SiOx/grapheme nanosheet (Si@SiOx/GNS) nanocomposites as high-performance anode materials for lithium-ion batteries are prepared by mechanically blending the mixture of expanded graphite (EG) with Si nanoparticles, and characterized by Raman spectrum, X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. During ball milling process, the si...

Here we report that branch poly(ethylenimine) (BPEI) could be used as both a stabilizer and a reducing agent in the preparation of long-term stable polycations-functionalized graphene nanosheets (GNs) suspension with concentration as high as 5 mg mL(-1). UV-vis spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared, X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, transmission electron microscopy,...