Candle soot: Journey from a pollutant to a functional material

MR Mulay, A Chauhan, S Patel, V Balakrishnan… - Carbon, 2019 - Elsevier
Candle soot, traditionally considered as an unwanted source of air-pollution, has slowly
been phased out by modern lighting techniques. However, a 2007 study by Liu and co …

Lead halide perovskite for efficient optoacoustic conversion and application toward high-resolution ultrasound imaging

X Du, J Li, G Niu, JH Yuan, KH Xue, M Xia… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Lead halide perovskites have exhibited excellent performance in solar cells, LEDs and
detectors. Thermal properties of perovskites, such as heat capacity and thermal conductivity …

A comprehensive review on photoacoustic-based devices for biomedical applications

RCS Barbosa, PM Mendes - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
The photoacoustic effect is an emerging technology that has sparked significant interest in
the research field since an acoustic wave can be produced simply by the incidence of light …

Facile fabrication and characterization of a PDMS-derived candle soot coated stable biocompatible superhydrophobic and superhemophobic surface

R Iqbal, B Majhy, AK Sen - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report a simple, inexpensive, rapid, and one-step method for the fabrication of a stable
and biocompatible superhydrophobic and superhemophobic surface. The proposed surface …

High-precision neural stimulation by a highly efficient candle soot fiber optoacoustic emitter

G Chen, L Shi, L Lan, R Wang, Y Li, Z Du… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Highly precise neuromodulation with a high efficacy poses great importance in
neuroscience. Here we developed a candle soot fiber optoacoustic emitter (CSFOE) …

Flexible and high-intensity photoacoustic transducer with PDMS/CSNPs nanocomposite for inspecting thick structure using laser ultrasonics

K Zhang, D Chen, S Wang, Z Yao, W Feng… - Composites Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Laser ultrasonic technique has been increasingly implemented for nondestructive testing
and structural health monitoring. However, the poor signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and low …

Multilayered carbon nanotube yarn based optoacoustic transducer with high energy conversion efficiency for ultrasound application

Z Chen, Y Wu, Y Yang, J Li, B Xie, X Li, S Lei… - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Carbon Nanotube assemblies are currently of considerable interest for their properties of
high-packing-density and aligned configurations, which offer a promising route to achieve …

[HTML][HTML] A novel CNTs array-PDMS composite with anisotropic thermal conductivity for optoacoustic transducer applications

J Li, J Xu, X Liu, T Zhang, S Lei, L Jiang… - Composites Part B …, 2020 - Elsevier
As a promising ultrasound device, the optoacoustic transducer whose core part is an
organic/inorganic composite, causes much attention and creates new opportunities …

Evaluation of photoacoustic transduction efficiency of candle soot nanocomposite transmitters

WY Chang, XA Zhang, J Kim, W Huang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Candle soot nanoparticles (CSNP) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) composite has shown
the highly efficient photoacoustic transduction owing to their high light absorption coefficient …

Development of broadband high-frequency piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer array

XB Wang, LM He, YC Ma, WJ Liu, WJ Xu, JY Ren… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUT) are promising elements to
fabricate a two-dimensional (2D) array with a pitch small enough (approximately half …