The use of carbon-based materials is an appealing strategy to solve the issue excessive CO2 emissions. In particular, metal-free nitrogen-doped carbon (mf-NCs) have advantages convenient synthesis, cost-effectiveness, and high conductivity are ideal electrocatalysts for reduction reaction (CO2RR). However, unclear identification active N sites low intrinsic activity mf-NCs hinder further develo...

Metal-free photocatalyst was synthesized by attaching carbon dots (CDs) to cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) via simple in-situ synthesis. The graphitic core and functional groups of CD on CNF controlled along the precursor concentration, while fibrous structure intact. optical property samples profoundly analyzed focusing electron recombination pathway. It revealed that excited electrons in transfer...

UNLABELLED We demonstrate electrically and ionically conducting nacre-mimetic nanocomposites prepared using self-assembly of synthetic nanoclay in combination with PEDOT PSS and a poly(ionic liquid) polymer from aqueous dispersions. The resulting nacre-mimetics show high degrees of mesoscale order and combine high stiffness and high strength. In terms of conductivities, the resulting hybrids ...

A synergetic model (DWT-LSSVM) is presented in this paper. First of all, the raw data is decomposed into approximate coefficients and the detail coefficients at different scales by discrete wavelet transforms (DWT). These coefficients obtained by previous phase are then used for prediction independently using least squares support vector machines (LSSVM). Finally, these predicted coefficients a...

Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials, State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, No. 5 Xin Mofan Road, Nanjing 210009, P. R. China. Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Jalan Simpang Tiga, 93350 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. Jiangsu National...