Published in RSC Advances
Since silver nanowires (AgNWs) show high infrared reflectance many studies present their applicability as thermal management products for various wearable textiles. However, their use for practical purposes is only partially evaluated, without focusing on improving their low atmospheric and liquid stability. This report describes a new approach for...
Published in RSC Advances
This study describes a new method for passivating Ag nanoparticles (AgNPs) with SnO2 layer and their further treatment by microwave irradiation. The one-step process of SnO2 layer formation was carried out by adding sodium stannate to the boiling aqueous AgNPs solution, which resulted in the formation of [email protected] [email protected] nanoparticles. The coatin...
Published in RSC Advances
Published in Nanoscale Advances
Hydrophobic ion pairing has emerged as a method to modulate the solubility of charged hydrophilic molecules ranging in class from small molecules to large enzymes. Charged hydrophilic molecules are ionically paired with oppositely-charged molecules that include hydrophobic moieties; the resulting uncharged complex is water-insoluble and will precip...
Published in Nanoscale
The piezoelectricity of collagen is purported to be linked to many biological processes including bone formation and wound healing. Although the piezoelectricity of tissue-derived collagen has been documented across the length scales, little work has been undertaken to characterise the local electromechanical properties of processed collagen, which...
Published in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering
Continuous flow chemistry has the potential to greatly improve efficiency in the synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs); however, the optimization of these processes can be complicated by a large number of variables affecting reaction success. In this work, a screening design of experiments was used to compare computational fluid dyn...
Published in RSC Advances
Non-noble metal-based catalysts with efficient catalytic activities for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are critical for energy conversion devices, including fuel cells and metal-air batteries. In this work, novel hafnium phosphide-reduced graphene oxide nanosheets (HfP-rGO NS) and hafnium disulfide-reduced g...
Published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
To study the formation and characterize the structure of mixed complexes of oppositely charged block copolymers and surfactants are of great significance for practical applications, e.g., in drug carrier formulations that are based on electrostatically assisted assembly. In this context, biocompatible block copolymers and biosurfactants (like bile ...
Published in CrystEngComm
Lasers are important tools for surface materials engineering due to the possibility of localized and fast heating rates. In this work, the laser-heated crystallization of Li2SiO3–CaSiO3 eutectic composition glass is correlated with the surface scanning speed. The results show that a Jackson–Hunt-like relation describes the interphase average spacin...
Published in CrystEngComm
