Graphite oxide was synthesized from natural flake graphite by the modified Hummers method. In brief, 200 mg of Graphite particles were immersed in Concentrated sulfuric acid (46 ml) and KMnO4 (6 g) was added slowly in small quantities in which temperature was maintained between the 0 and 5 c using an ice bath, after the complete oxidation of KMnO4, the mixture was heated to 37 c and kept at thi...

The current energy needs have put the focus on highly efficient energy storage systems such as supercapacitors. At present, much attention focuses on graphene-like materials as promising supercapacitor electrodes. Here we show that reduced graphite oxide offers a very interesting potential. Materials obtained by oxidation of natural graphite and subsequent sonication and reduction by hydrazine ...

The deposition of metal nanostructures (wires and particles) on a graphite surface from an aqueous electrolyte solution was induced by galvanic displacement, via the oxidation of insoluble crystals of a ferrocene derivative (either n-butyl ferrocene or decamethyl ferrocene) present on the same substrate. Micron-to-millimetre-scale crystallites of decamethyl ferrocene were deposited on the graph...

Field flow fractionation is a family of separation techniques applicable to characterize various particulate materials of different nature. In this paper, formation of porous graphite during milling has been investigated by gravitational field flow fractionation. The results from gravitational field flow fractionation were compared to those from Brunauer-Emmett-Teller. The both techniques have ...

Electrochemical properties of various rock-shaped-CuO/graphite (G) composites and monoclinic structure CuO nanoparticles as the cathode versus a zinc plate as the anode in a 4M NaOH electrolyte were elucidated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and chronopotentiometry (CP) in a two electrode configuration cell. Various values of G 9, 16 and 28 wt% were prepared and studied as catho...

The aim of this work is to develop and adapt a formalism to determine absorbed dose to water from graphite calorimetry measurements in carbon-ion beams. Fluence correction factors, [Formula: see text], needed when using a graphite calorimeter to derive dose to water, were determined in a clinical high-energy carbon-ion beam. Measurements were performed in a 290 MeV/n carbon-ion beam with a fiel...

Two-dimensional superlattices of organically passivated 2.6-nm silver quantum dots were prepared as Langmuir monolayers and transferred to highly oriented pyrolytic graphite substrates. The structural and electronic properties of the films were probed with variable temperature scanning tunneling microscopy. Particles passivated with decanethiol ~interparticle separation distance of ;1.160.2 nm)...

In the present work, we have investigated the concentration dependences of electrical conductivity of monopolymer composites with graphite nanoplatelets or multiwall carbon nanotubes and hybrid composites with both multiwall carbon nanotubes and graphite nanoplatelets. The latter filler was added to given systems in content of 0.24 vol%. The content of multiwall carbon nanotubes is varied from ...

To investigate the uniformity of copper particles in formulation design of copper-coated graphite, a quadrat-based method was presented with the image processing. Firstly, the particles were located by the foreground and background clustering algorithm. Then, an improved uniformity quantification model was established using the size and position of the particles. The findings based on the exper...

Fine aerosol particles were analyzed by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry with high lateral resolution. After sulfate particles with a diameter of about 1 μm were sputtered by gallium primary ions (a gallium focused ion beam), solid materials with a diameter of about 100 nm were occasionally found inside the particles. Since the mass spectrum for the solid material was almost the s...