60 years of DLC coatings: historical highlights and technical review of cathodic arc processes to synthesize various DLC types, and their evolution for industrial …

J Vetter - Surface and Coatings Technology, 2014 - Elsevier
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) films deposited by cathodic vacuum arc evaporation (CVAE)
have attracted worldwide interest from research groups and industry since the beginning of …

Defect engineering of carbons for energy conversion and storage applications

X Luo, H Zheng, W Lai, P Yuan, S Li… - Energy & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sustainable energy conversion and storage technologies are a vital prerequisite for neutral
future carbon. To this end, carbon materials with attractive features, such as tunable pore …

A flexible electromagnetic wave-electricity harvester

H Lv, Z Yang, B Liu, G Wu, Z Lou, B Fei, R Wu - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Developing an ultimate electromagnetic (EM)-absorbing material that can not only dissipate
EM energy but also convert the generated heat into electricity is highly desired but remains a …

Boosting the electrical double‐layer capacitance of graphene by self‐doped defects through ball‐milling

Y Dong, S Zhang, X Du, S Hong, S Zhao… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Improving the capacitance of carbon materials for supercapacitors without sacrificing their
rate performance, especially volumetric capacitance at high mass loadings, is a big …

Singlet Oxygen Induced Site‐Specific Etching Boosts Nitrogen‐Carbon Sites for High‐Efficiency Oxygen Reduction

G Ye, S Liu, K Zhao, Z He - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Targeted construction of carbon defects near the N dopants is an intriguing but challenging
way to boost the electrocatalytic activity of N‐doped carbon toward oxygen reduction …

Catalyst‐free efficient growth, orientation and biosensing properties of multilayer graphene nanoflake films with sharp edge planes

NG Shang, P Papakonstantinou… - Advanced functional …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Although various carbon-based materials, such as highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG),
glassy carbon, fullerenes, boron-doped diamond, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), etc.,[1] have …

Nano-Architecture of nitrogen-doped graphene films synthesized from a solid CN source

C Maddi, F Bourquard, V Barnier, J Avila… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
New synthesis routes to tailor graphene properties by controlling the concentration and
chemical configuration of dopants show great promise. Herein we report the direct …

Trends in carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen core in the X-ray absorption spectroscopy of carbon nanomaterials: a guide for the perplexed

S Sainio, N Wester, A Aarva, CJ Titus… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Successful deployment of carbon nanomaterials in many applications, such as sensing,
energy storage, and catalysis, relies on the selection, synthesis, and tailoring of the surface …

Three‐dimensional hierarchically ordered porous carbons with partially graphitic nanostructures for electrochemical capacitive energy storage

CH Huang, Q Zhang, TC Chou, CM Chen… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Three‐dimensional, hierarchically ordered, porous carbon (HOPC) with designed porous
textures, serving as an ion‐buffering reservoir, an ion‐transport channel, and a charge …

Structural characterization and identification of graphdiyne and graphdiyne-based materials

H Bao, L Wang, C Li, J Luo - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2018 - ACS Publications
Graphdiyne (GDY) is a two-dimensional (2D) carbon allotrope consisting of sp2-and sp-
hybridized carbon atoms. It and GDY-based materials have tremendous application …