Synthesis of nanomaterials using various top-down and bottom-up approaches, influencing factors, advantages, and disadvantages: A review

N Abid, AM Khan, S Shujait, K Chaudhary… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanotechnology is one of the emerging fields of the 21st Century. Many new devices and
patentable technology is based on nanomaterials (NMs). One of the dominant factors in the …

Preparation methods of different nanomaterials for various potential applications: A review

AM El-Khawaga, A Zidan… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanomaterials are an interesting class of materials that include a wide variety of samples
with at least one dimension between 1 and 100 nm. Nanomaterials are cornerstones of …

Green copper oxide nanoparticles for lead, nickel, and cadmium removal from contaminated water

AED Mahmoud, KM Al-Qahtani, SO Alflaij… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Environmentally friendly copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) were prepared with a green
synthesis route without using hazardous chemicals. Hence, the extracts of mint leaves and …

Tribochemistry, mechanical alloying, mechanochemistry: what is in a name?

AAL Michalchuk, EV Boldyreva, AM Belenguer… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Over the decades, the application of mechanical force to influence chemical reactions has
been called by various names: mechanochemistry, tribochemistry, mechanical alloying, to …

Nanomaterials: A comprehensive review of applications, toxicity, impact, and fate to environment

MM El-Kady, I Ansari, C Arora, N Rai, S Soni… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present era is considered the nanotech age. Nanomaterials have gained a great deal of
importance in the field of technology, engineering, and medicine progression because of …

Mechanochemical synthesis of highly porous materials

B Szczęśniak, S Borysiuk, J Choma, M Jaroniec - Materials Horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Conventional synthesis methods of functional materials are usually time-and energy
consuming and contribute to the accumulation of waste solvents. An alternative solution is …

Structural transformation of porous and disordered carbon during ball-milling

R Yuan, Y Dong, R Hou, L Shang, J Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mechanical ball-milling is a commonly used method to shattering crystals or introducing
defects in carbon materials. But herein, we observe that the highly porous and disordered …

Reuse of poor-quality water for sustainable crop production in the changing scenario of climate

ML Dotaniya, VD Meena, JK Saha, CK Dotaniya… - Environment …, 2023 - Springer
The availability of freshwater is limited for agriculture systems across the globe. A fast-
growing population demands need to enhance the food grain production from a limited …

Biogenic synthesis of reduced graphene oxide from Ziziphus spina-christi (Christ's thorn jujube) extracts for catalytic, antimicrobial, and antioxidant potentialities

AED Mahmoud, N El-Maghrabi, M Hosny… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
In the current work, various concentrations of the aqueous extract of Ziziphus spina-christi
were employed for the phytoreduction of graphene oxide (GO). The green synthesized …

Synthesis of wafer‐scale graphene with chemical vapor deposition for electronic device applications

B Sun, J Pang, Q Cheng, S Zhang, Y Li… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The first isolation of graphene opens the avenue for new platforms for physics, electronic
engineering, and materials sciences. Among several kinds of synthesis approaches …