Graphene-Boron Nitride (G-BN) heterostructures can lead to the realization of nanoscale electronics that will be smaller than the dimensional limit—14 nanometers—of silicon transistors and provide higher mobilities. However, the grapheneboron nitride heterostructure although self-insulating, cannot function as a transistor alone due to not having a second conducting pathway. Thus, the utilizati...

a molecular imprinted polymer (mip) was computationally designed and synthesized for the selective extraction of metaproterenol (mtp), from human plasma. in this regards semi empirical mp3 and mechanical quantum (dft) calculations were used to find a suitable functional monomers. on the basis of computational and experimental results, acrylic acid (aa) and dmso:meoh (90:10 %v/v) were found to b...

Air-stable n-doping of carbon nanotubes is presented by utilizing SiN(x) thin films deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The fixed positive charges in SiN(x), arising from (+)Si ≡ N3 dangling bonds induce strong field-effect doping of underlying nanotubes. Specifically, an electron doping density of ∼ 10(20) cm(-3) is estimated from capacitance voltage measurements of the fix...

We investigate Raman spectra of graphite oxide and functionalized graphene sheets with epoxy and hydroxyl groups and Stone-Wales and 5-8-5 defects by first-principles calculations to interpret our experimental results. Only the alternating pattern of single-double carbon bonds within the sp2 carbon ribbons provides a satisfactory explanation for the experimentally observed blue shift of the G b...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were implanted with thermally decomposed oxygen (O2+) and nitrogen (N2+) ions at an acceleration voltage of 20 V. With a low dose of oxygen ions, the CNT-FET exhibited p-type behaviors with substantial changes in threshold voltage and in the slope of the source-drain current (l(sd)). However, at high dosages, the device exhibited metallic behaviors. After nitrogen doping...

Recent experiments have shown that nitrogen doping enhances capacitance in carbon electrode supercapacitors. However, a detailed study of the effect of N-doping on capacitance is still lacking. In this paper, we study the doping concentration and the configuration effect on the electric double-layer (EDL) capacitance, quantum capacitance, and total capacitance. It is found that pyridinic and gr...

In this work, we present a synthesis approach for nitrogen-doped graphene-sheet-like nanostructures via the graphitization of a heteroatom polymer, in particular, polyaniline, under the catalysis of a cobalt species using multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) as a supporting template. The graphene-rich composite catalysts (Co-N-MWNTs) exhibit substantially improved activity for oxygen reduction ...

We report the effects of potassium doping on the conductance of individual semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube ropes. We are able to control the level of doping by reversibly intercalating and deintercalating potassium. Potassium doping changes the carriers in the ropes from holes to electrons. Typical values for the carrier density are found to be ;100–1000 electrons/mm. The effective...

Transparent, highly percolated networks of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (rr-P3HT)-wrapped semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (s-SWNTs) are deposited, and the charge transfer processes of these nanohybrids are studied using spectroscopic and electrical measurements. The data disclose hole doping of s-SWNTs by the polymer, challenging the prevalent electron-doping hypothesis. Th...

substitution of two or four carbon atoms by nitrogen in the corannulene molecule as a carbon nanostructure was done and the obtained structures were optimized at mp2/6-31g(d) level of theory. calculations of the nucleus-independent chemical shift (nics) were performed to analyze the aromaticity of the corannulene rings and its derivatives upon doping with n at b3lyp/6-31g(d) level of theory. re...