Most Cited Article : “Nanostructured Zinc Oxide for Water Treatment”

Nanoscience & Nanotechnology-Asia Author(s): Sunandan Baruah, Samir K. Pal and Joydeep Dutta Abstract: Environmental pollution and industrialization on a global scale have drawn attention to the vital need for developing new hygienically friendly purification technologies. Existing wastewater treatment technologies demand high capital investment and operation & maintenance cost, and large area. Cost-effective treatment of pollutants...

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Magnetic Fe3O4 Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Application in Water Treatment

Author(s): Xue-Mei Li, Gaojie Xu, Yue Liu and Tao HePages 14-24 (11) Abstract: Magnetic separation is based on the exertion of a magnetic field to selectively collect the magnetic responsive materials. With the development of nanotechnology, magnetic separations based on nanomaterials have found various applications largely benefited from the size effect and synthetic advancement in their preparation. In this review the synthetic methods for the preparation of magnetic iron oxide (Fe3O4) nanoparticles including co-precipitation, hydrothermal...

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Fabrication and Applications of Tailored Carbon Capsules

Author(s): Joonwon BaePages 66-79 (14) Abstract: Recently, diverse carbon materials with elegant structures such as fullerene, nanotube, and graphene have been realized and thus tailoring those elaborate structures has become a challenging research task. In addition, various emerging carbon materials have been demonstrated such as capsules, tubes, and vesicles. Among these candidates, carbon capsules are particularly interesting owing to their...

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Multicompartmental Micro/Nanofibers Toward Fiber Based Energy Devices

Author(s): Jaemin Lee and Kyung J. LeePages 49-65 (17) Abstract: Multicompartmental micro/nanofibers have been attained growing interest in the recent years because of their potential applications for fiber-based energy applications such as solar cell, piezo-electric materials, lithium ion battery, and supercapacitor. Herein, we summarized preparation pathway for multicompartmental micro/nanofibers and fiber based energy applications which will...

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A Mini Review: Nanostructured Silicon-based Materials for Lithium Ion Battery

Author(s): Jiantao Wang, Juanyu Yang and Shigang LuPages 3-27 (25) Abstract: It is necessary to develop high-energy-density and long cycle lithium (Li)-ion batteries so as to meet the requirements for electric vehicles. As one of anode materials, silicon (Si) has attracted most attention since it not only has 10 times higher specific capacity than traditional commercial carbon anodes, but also is cheap, abundant and environmentally benign. However,...

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Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Overview and Advances

Author(s): Maria G. Buonomenna and Joonwon BaePages 28-48 (21) Abstract: In recent years lithium-sulfur batteries have received increasing attention from various research groups owing to their high theoretical specific energy density. The high energy storage required by extended range electric vehicles justifies the research effort that is still necessary to overcome the existing significant obstacles to realize in practice the theoretical...

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