Materials, assemblies and reaction systems under rotation

BA Grzybowski, YI Sobolev, O Cybulski… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
When liquids or solid materials rotate, they impart centrifugal and/or shear forces. This
Review surveys rotary devices and systems in which such forces control small-scale flows …

High conversion continuous flow exfoliation of 2D MoS 2

TMD Alharbi, CL Raston - Nanoscale Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a low-cost and highly efficient process for exfoliating of MoS2 using an energy
efficient vortex fluidic device (VFD). This method is high in green chemistry metrics in …

Continuous flow fabrication of green graphene oxide in aqueous hydrogen peroxide

K Vimalanathan, J Scott, X Pan, X Luo… - Nanoscale …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Highly processible graphene oxide (GO) has a diversity of applications as a material readily
dispersed in aqueous media. However, methods for preparing such free-standing GO use …

Thin film mechano-energy induced slicing of carbon nanotubes under flow

TMD Alharbi, Q Li, CL Raston - ACS sustainable chemistry & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Controlling the length of CNTs is important for their applications. As-prepared CNTs are
typically nonuniform in length and are entangled, but for applications in electronics and …

Unzipping multiwalled carbon nanotubes under vortex fluidic continuous flow

TMD Alharbi, AEH Alotaibi, D Chen, Q Li… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conventional batch processing in terms of unzipping multiwalled carbon nanotubes
(MWCNTs) suffers from discontinuity, safety and environmental issues, reproducibility, and …

Recent progress on vortex fluidic synthesis of carbon nanomaterials

TMD Alharbi - Journal of Taibah University for Science, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Carbon nanomaterials with tunable shapes, morphologies, and sizes have attracted
considerable attention owing to their specific physical and chemical properties such as …

Influence of CNT length on dispersion, localization, and electrical percolation in a styrene-butadiene-based star block copolymer

U Staudinger, A Janke, C Steinbach, U Reuter, M Ganß… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study followed the approach of dispersing and localizing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in
nanostructured domains of block copolymers (BCPs) by shortening the CNTs via ball milling …

Continuous flow laser-induced unzipping of multiwalled carbon nanotubes

TMD Alharbi - Journal of Taibah University for Science, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Unzipped multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) provide a route to graphene carbon
ribbons (GNRs), which have application in electronic devices. Pulsed irradiation using an …

Efficient fabrication of single-wall carbon nanotube nanoreactors by defect-induced cutting

X Zheng, Z Zhang, G Zhou, M Zou, F Zhang, PX Hou… - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with ultra-thin channels are considered promising
nanoreactors for confined catalysis, chemical reactions, and drug delivery. The fabrication of …

Vortex Fluidic Mediated Synthesis of TiO2 Nanoparticle/MXene Composites

AHM Al‐antaki, TMD Alharbi, S Kellici… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Oxidation of MXene in a vortex fluidic device (VFD) operating under continuous flow results
in exfoliation and fragmentation into nanoparticles of surface oxidised 2D material with …