scholarly journals 3D-ordered carbon materials by melt-shear organization for tailor-made hybrid core–shell polymer particle architectures

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (18) ◽  
pp. 3976-3986 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Vowinkel ◽  
C. G. Schäfer ◽  
G. Cherkashinin ◽  
C. Fasel ◽  
F. Roth ◽  
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The melt-shear organization technique for tailor-made polystyrene-co-polyacrylonitrile (PSAN) shell and silica core particles is investigated yielding easy-scalable carbonaceous porous films after etching and appropriate thermal treatment.

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Nikolic ◽  
Konstantinos Giannakopoulos ◽  
Vladimir Srdic

Core-shell particles were formed by deposition of primary silica particles synthesized from sodium silicate solution on functionalized silica core particles (having size of ~0.5 ?m) prepared by hydrolysis and condensation of tetraethylortosilicate. The obtained mesoporous shell has thickness of about 60 nm and consists of primary silica particles with average size of ~21 nm. Scanning electron microscopy and zeta potential measurements showed that continuous silica shell exists around functionalized core particles which was additionally proved by FTIR and TEM results.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Nikolic ◽  
Radoslav Filipovic ◽  
Slobodanka Stanojevic-Nikolic

The silica core/shell nanostructures were prepared by a wet-chemical process. Silica core particles were prepared by hydrolysis and condensation of tetraethylorthosilicate. The obtained particles (average size ~0.4 ?m) were used as templates for assembling of silica nanoparticles generated from highly basic sodium silicate solution. The silica core particles were functionalized with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) to allow electrostatic assembling of silica nanoparticles on the surface of silica core particles. In order to find the optimal conditions for synthesis of silica core/shell particles with mesoporous shells, the effect of reaction time on formation of silica nanoparticles was investigated. The effect of process parameters on generation and aggregation of silica nanoparticles prepared from highly basic sodium silicate solution was also investigated. It was shown that the size of silica nanoparticles and tendency towards aggregation increase with increasing the reaction time and temperature. These behaviours were reflected on the formation of mesoporous silica shell around silica core particles. Thin and uniform mesoporous silica layers were obtained if reaction times were kept short. When the reaction time was prolonged, the thicker and non-uniform shells were obtained.


Author(s):  
Kai YAO ◽  
Yun XUE ◽  
Qian WU ◽  
Jing LI ◽  
Yan WANG ◽  
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Author(s):  
Min Jiang ◽  
Wei Fan ◽  
Anquan Zhu ◽  
Pengfei Tan ◽  
Jianping Xie ◽  
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This work employs bacteria as precursors and induces a cost-effective biosorption strategy to obtain Fe2P@carbon nanoparticles decorated on N and P co-doped carbon (Fe2P@CNPs/NPC) materials.


2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (10) ◽  
pp. 4012-4017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiping Cao ◽  
Sreenath Bolisetty ◽  
Gianna Wolfisberg ◽  
Jozef Adamcik ◽  
Raffaele Mezzenga

Amyloid fibrils have evolved from purely pathological materials implicated in neurodegenerative diseases to efficient templates for last-generation functional materials and nanotechnologies. Due to their high intrinsic stiffness and extreme aspect ratio, amyloid fibril hydrogels can serve as ideal building blocks for material design and synthesis. Yet, in these gels, stiffness is generally not paired by toughness, and their fragile nature hinders significantly their widespread application. Here we introduce an amyloid-assisted biosilicification process, which leads to the formation of silicified nanofibrils (fibril–silica core–shell nanofilaments) with stiffness up to and beyond ∼20 GPa, approaching the Young’s moduli of many metal alloys and inorganic materials. The silica shell endows the silicified fibrils with large bending rigidity, reflected in hydrogels with elasticity three orders of magnitude beyond conventional amyloid fibril hydrogels. A constitutive theoretical model is proposed that, despite its simplicity, quantitatively interprets the nonmonotonic dependence of the gel elasticity upon the filaments bundling promoted by shear stresses. The application of these hybrid silica–amyloid hydrogels is demonstrated on the fabrication of mechanically stable aerogels generated via sequential solvent exchange, supercriticalCO2removal, and calcination of the amyloid core, leading to aerogels of specific surface area as high as 993m2/g, among the highest values ever reported for aerogels. We finally show that the scope of amyloid hydrogels can be expanded considerably by generating double networks of amyloid and hydrophilic polymers, which combine excellent stiffness and toughness beyond those of each of the constitutive individual networks.


2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (11) ◽  
pp. 737-747
Author(s):  
Ting-ting Li ◽  
Tomoya Inose ◽  
Takahiro Oikawa ◽  
Masayuki Tokunaga ◽  
Keiichiro Hatoyama ◽  
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