New prospects on solvothermal carbonisation assisted by organic solvents, ionic liquids and eutectic mixtures–A critical review

MH Mruthunjayappa, NS Kotrappanavar… - Progress in Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbonaceous materials have been extensively used in diverse areas because of facile, low-
cost, environmentally friendly, and nontoxic routes to produce novel functional materials that …

Solvothermal and hydrothermal processes: the main physico-chemical factors involved and new trends

G Demazeau - Research on Chemical Intermediates, 2011 - Springer
Hydro-and solvothermal processes play an important role in the different scientific domains
involving either basic or applied research. During the last years, such processes have been …

Curly graphene with specious interlayers displaying superior capacity for hydrogen storage

A Eftekhari, P Jafarkhani - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2013 - ACS Publications
While almost all attempts for bulk synthesis of graphene result in agglomeration of flat
graphene layers, a simple solvothermal route is reported for the preparation of a graphene …

Facile electrochemical assisted synthesis of ZnO/graphene nanosheets with enhanced photocatalytic activity

SY Sawant, MH Cho - RSC advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
In the present study, an electrochemical exfoliation technique was used to synthesize a
series of zinc oxide/graphene (ZnO/Gr) nanocomposites using different concentrations of …

Sodium metal-assisted carbonization of pyrrole to prepare N-doped porous carbons for high-rate performance supercapacitors

K Liu, X Zheng, K Wang, C Wang, M Chen - Carbon, 2019 - Elsevier
Nitrogen-doping can increase the charge density and the wettability of electrode materials,
to further reinforce the electrochemical performances of energy storage devices. It is difficult …

Carbothermal process-derived porous N-doped carbon for flexible energy storage: Influence of carbon surface area and conductivity

SY Sawant, MH Cho, M Kang, TH Han - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
A simple and scalable method to synthesize N-doped carbon (NC) based on a carbothermal
reduction of a ZnO/carbon composite (ZCC) obtained from the decomposition of a zinc …

Formation and characterization of onions shaped carbon soot from plastic wastes

SY Sawant, RS Somani, AB Panda, HC Bajaj - Materials Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
The characterization of carbonous soot obtained from the pyrolysis of different plastic wastes
under static atmosphere showed the formation of carbon onions of 60±10nm. Various …

A low temperature bottom-up approach for the synthesis of few layered graphene nanosheets via C–C bond formation using a modified Ullmann reaction

SY Sawant, RS Somani, MH Cho, HC Bajaj - RSC Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A low temperature, single-pot, bottom-up approach for the synthesis of few layered
graphene sheets using the modified Ullmann reaction is reported. The synthesis protocol …

Vibration analysis of horn-shaped single-walled carbon nanotubes embedded in viscoelastic medium under a longitudinal magnetic field

DP Zhang, Y Lei, ZB Shen - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Based on nonlocal Euler-Bernoulli beam theory, vibration characteristics are
investigated for a horn-shaped single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) which is …

One-step synthesis of hierarchical metal oxide nanosheet/carbon nanotube composites by chemical vapor deposition

F Wu, C Wang, HY Hu, M Pan, HF Li, N Xie… - Journal of materials …, 2019 - Springer
We report here the one-step water-assisted CVD growth of metal oxide nanosheets/carbon
nanotubes (CNTs) composites. The cross-linked composites were characterized by …