Carbon nanomaterials are tiny structures made of carbon atoms arranged in a specific way. They are very small, at the nanoscale, and can have different shapes like tubes, balls, or sheets. These materials have unique properties that make them useful in various fields, such as electronics, medicine, and energy.
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Simulations by Rice University scientists show
how carbon nanomaterials may be optimized to replace expensive platinum in cathodes for electricity - generating fuel cells for transportation and other applications.
Rickard Arvidsson and Björn Sandén, researchers in environmental systems analysis at Chalmers University of Technology, have now examined an alternative solution: substituting
carbon nanomaterials for the scarce metals.
Measuring roughly 10 atoms by 1 atom, the minute device was fashioned from graphene, an impossibly
thin carbon nanomaterial.
The work was the result of collaboration between Wong's biomedical engineering lab and the lab of Robert Hurt, professor of engineering at Brown, who focuses
on carbon nanomaterials.
«In our lab at UMD we have been developing
unique carbon nanomaterials and chemistry but it was not until Gardea approached us did we become aware of the intriguing challenge and opportunity for reconfigurable composite materials,» said Dr. YuHuang Wang, professor of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland.
Paul McEuen, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics and director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science and the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP), studies the electrical and mechanical properties
of carbon nanomaterials.
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new carbon nanomaterial — the thinnest possible one - dimensional thread that still retains a diamond - like structure — was created by the controlled, slow compression and decompression of benzene.
The carbon / sulfur nanolaminates synthesized by Gogotsi's group demonstrate the same uniformity as the
infiltrated carbon nanomaterials, but the sulfur in the nanolaminates is uniformly deposited in the carbon matrix as atomically thin layers and a strong covalent bonding between carbon and sulfur is observed.
The findings are from computer simulations by Rice scientists who set out to see
how carbon nanomaterials can be improved for fuel - cell cathodes.
So the Brown team turned to a darling of the nanotech world: graphene,
the carbon nanomaterial.
The resulting fibres, which are the toughest and strongest ever measured, were produced by simply placing the spiders in a box and spraying them with water containing
the carbon nanomaterials.
Rickard Arvidsson and Björn Sandén at Chalmers University of Technology have investigated whether
the carbon nanomaterials graphene, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes have the potential to replace 14 scarce metals in their main areas of application (see table).
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carbon nanomaterials, biosensing, analytical chemistry and nanocomposites.