Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have been attracting tremendous attention
owing to their structure (chirality) dependent outstanding properties, which endow them with …

This paper reviews progress that has been made in the use of Raman spectroscopy to study
graphene and carbon nanotubes. These are two nanostructured forms of sp2 carbon …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), both in pristine and chemically or structurally functionalized
forms, have gained increasing research interests as an innovative type of nano-structured …

Raman spectroscopy is the inelastic scattering of light by matter. Being highly sensitive to
the physical and chemical properties of materials, as well as to environmental effects that …

Semiconductor electronics is commonplace in every household. Semiconductor devices
have enabled economically reasonable fiber-based optical communication, optical storage …

We present a systematic density functional theory study of the electronic properties, optical
spectra, and relative thermodynamic stability of semiconducting graphene nanoribbons. We …

Thermoelectrics is a challenging issue for modern and future energy conversion and
recovery technology. Carbon nanotubes are promising active thermoelectic materials owing …

Nanoscale systems are forecast to be a means of integrating desirable attributes of
molecular and bulk regimes into easily processed materials. Notable examples include …

Polymer composites are one of the most attractive near‐term means to exploit the unique
properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene. This is particularly true for composites aimed …

Abstract 2D transition metal‐dichalcogenides are emerging as efficient and cost‐effective
electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). However, only the edge sites of …