Although the increment performance of photovoltaic thermal (PVT) systems by using nanofluids as working fluids have gained attention researchers during last two decades, there is still, a lack in literature study associated to this application. This contributes investigations and researches applying increase PVT collectors. A flat non-concentrating collector has been designed, constructed and, ...

Although lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are one of the promising candidates for next-generation energy storage, their practical implementation is limited by rapid capacity fading due to lithium polysulfide (LiPSs) formation and low electronic conductivity sulfur. Herein, we report a high-performance battery based on multidimensional cathode architecture consisting nanosulfur, graphene nanoplat...

This study presents nonlinear vibration of functionally graded-graphene platelet-reinforced composite (FG-GPLRC) beams under various time-dependent forces. Their material distributions are characterized by continuous functions with four patterns reinforcement which uniform, linear and parabolic I II. The third-order shear deformation theory is used to represent the displacement fields, while ge...

Well-defined graphene nanosheets have become increasingly popular in the electrochemical detection and quantification of small molecules. In this work, the electrochemical oxidation of biomarkers such as uric acid, ascorbic acid, dopamine, NADH and DNA bases, namely guanine and adenine, was performed using cyclic voltammetry and differential pulse voltammetry to compare the electrochemical prop...

Electron transfer and lithium ion diffusion rates are the key factors limiting the lithium ion storage in anisotropic LiFePO4 electrodes. In this work, we employed a facile solvothermal method to synthesize a "platelet-on-sheet" LiFePO4/graphene composite (LFP@GNs), which is LiFePO4 nanoplatelets in situ grown on graphene sheets with highly oriented (010) facets of LiFePO4 crystals. Such a two-...

The solar gravity heat pipe has been widely used for solar thermal water heating because of its high efficient heat transfer and thermal diode characteristics. Operated on fluctuant and low intensity solar radiation conditions, a solar gravity heat pipe may frequently start up. This severely affects its solar collection performance. To enhance the thermal performance of the solar gravity heat p...

Graphene oxide (GOs) has emerged in recent years as a versatile nanomaterial, demonstrating tremendous potential for multifunctional biomedical applications. GOs can be prepared by the top-down or bottom-up approach, which leads to a great variability of GOs being produced due to the different procedures and starting carbon sources adopted. This will have an effect on the physiochemical propert...