We report a remarkably rapid method for assembling pristine graphene platelets into a large area transparent film at a liquid surface. Some 2-3 layer pristine graphene platelets temporally solvated with N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) are assembled at the surface of a dilute aqueous suspension using an evaporation-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability and then are driven together by Marangoni forces....

Abstract The mechanical properties of carbon fiber-reinforced epoxy composites were identified by adding carbon-based nano-reinforcements, such as multi-wall nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene platelets (GP), into the matrix conducting suitable experiments. main focus this study is to compare tensile modulus, strength, flexural thermal conductivity with nanoparticle reinforcement. results revealed t...

Using friction force microscopy, we have investigated the frictional behavior of graphene deposited on various substrates as well as over micro-fabricated wells. Both graphene on SiO2/ Si substrates and graphene freely suspended over the wells showed a trend of increasing frictionwith decreasing number of atomic layers of graphene. However, this trend with thickness was absent for graphene depo...

Plasmonics based sensors have been a prominent area of research. Plasmonics based sensors are widely used in bio sensing and many other applications. The basic mechanism in which these sensors operate is that there are metal nano particles that are separated by a very small distance between them. The dimensions of these nano particles is much smaller than the incident light [1]. For sensing pur...

We determine the graphene morphology regulated by substrates with herringbone and checkerboard surface corrugations. As the graphene-substrate interfacial bonding energy and the substrate surface roughness vary, the graphene morphology snaps between two distinct states: (1) closely conforming to the substrate and (2) remaining nearly flat on the substrate. Since the graphene morphology is stron...

Graphene nanoplatelets are shown to electrocatalyse the oxidation of dopamine. Single entity measurements ('nano-impacts') coupled with microdisc voltammetry and UV-visible spectroscopy reveal that adsorption of dopamine and its oxidised product on the graphene nanoplatelets is the key factor causing the observed catalysis. Genetic implications are drawn both for the study of catalysts in gener...

The authors neglected to cite a related study that reports an ARPES experiment indicating the presence of multiple p bands in multilayer graphene on C-face SiC. 1 This is given below as Reference 1. In the present Article, nano-ARPES band mappings of individual graphene grains unambiguously show that multilayer C-face graphene exhibits multiple p-bands.

in this study, forced-vibration analysis of a coupled system of single layered graphene sheets (slgss) subjected to the moving nano-particle is carried out based on nonlocal elasticity theory of orthotropic plate. two slgss are coupled with elastic medium which is simulated by pasternak and visco-pasternak models. using hamilton’s principle, governing differential equations of motion are derive...

Artificial photosynthesis is a very attractive and a desirable way to solve the rising energy demand. In order to harvest energy directly from sunlight catalyst for oxygen reduction and evolution reaction are at the core of key renewable-energy technologies including fuel cells and water splitting. Herein, tungsten oxide-reduced graphene oxide (WO3-rGO), cobalt oxidereduced graphene oxide (Co3O...