background and objective: multi-walled carbon nano tubes (mwcnts) as an important element of nanosciences have a remarkable absorption in the region of nir window (650-900 nm) which can overcome the limitations of deep treatment in photothermal therapy. to disperse mwcnts in water, it is proposed to attach carboxylated functional group (-cooh) to mwcnts in order to increase dispersivity in wate...

In the present study, molecular dynamics simulations have been utilized to provide fundamental understanding of melting behavior of pure Pd and Pt nanoparticles with the size of 10 nm in diameter, both free and graphene-supported during continuous heating. The embedded atom method is employed to model the metal-metal interactions, whereas a Lennard-Jones potential is applied to describe the met...

in this work, spherical pt nanometer-scale particles supported on the poly (m-toluidine)/triton x-100 film modified carbon nanotube paste electrode (pt/pmt (tx-100)/mcntpe) was used as a potent catalyst for electrooxidation of formaldehyde (hcho) in both 0.5 m h2so4 and 0.1 m naoh solutions. the obtained results showed that utilization of tx-100 as an additive during the electropolymerization p...

developing simple, sensitive and selective sensing systems for dopamine is important due to its biological significance. in this work, a silver nanoparticles-modified carbon paste electrode (agnps-cpe) has been constructed and used to detect of dopamine (da) in the simultaneous presence of ascorbic acid (aa) and uric acid (ua) at neutral ph 7.0 by cyclic voltammetry. the modified electrode show...

Nanoparticles have attracted a great deal of attention as carriers for drug delivery to cancer cells. However, reports on their potential cytotoxicity raise questions of their safety and this matter needs attentive consideration. In this paper, for the first time, the cytotoxic effects of two carbon based nanoparticles, diamond and graphite, on glioblastoma and hepatoma cells were compared. Fir...

Carbon nanospheres with a high Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) specific surface area were fabricated via the pyrolysis of polyacrylonitrile-poly(methyl methacrylate) (PAN-PMMA) core-shell nanoparticles. Firstly, PAN-PMMA nanoparticles at high concentration and low surfactant content were controllably synthesized by a two-stage azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN)-initiated semicontinuous emulsion polymer...

Carbon nanoparticles were prepared by refluxing the combustion soot of natural gas in nitric acid. Transmission ElectronMicroscopymeasurements showed that the resulting particles exhibited an average diameter of 4.8( 0.6 nm, and the crystalline lattices were consistent with graphitic carbons. CNMRand FTIR spectroscopic measurements further confirmed the presence of sp carbons in the form of ary...

Composite electrodes consisting of Pt nanoparticles-supported on multiwalled carbon nanotubes grown directly on carbon paper (Pt/CNTs/carbon aper) have been synthesized by a new method using glacial acetic acid as a reducing agent. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images show hat the Pt nanoparticles with high density and relative small in size (2–4 nm) were monodispersed on the surface o...

In this report, we present a general method for a continuous gas-phase synthesis of size-selected metal/multi layer graphene (MLG) core shell nanoparticles having a narrow size distribution of metal core and MLG shell for direct deposition onto any desired substrate kept under clean vacuum conditions. Evolution of MLG signature is clearly observed as the metal-carbon agglomerates get transforme...