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Growth, Properties, and Applications of Branched Carbon Nanostructures
Nanomaterials featuring branched carbon nanotubes (b-CNTs), nanofibers (b-CNFs), or other types of carbon nanostructures (CNSs) are of great interest due to their outstanding mechanical and electronic properties. They are promising components of nanodevices for a wide variety of advanced application...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8540255/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34685169 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano11102728 |
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author | Malik, Sharali Marchesan, Silvia |
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description | Nanomaterials featuring branched carbon nanotubes (b-CNTs), nanofibers (b-CNFs), or other types of carbon nanostructures (CNSs) are of great interest due to their outstanding mechanical and electronic properties. They are promising components of nanodevices for a wide variety of advanced applications spanning from batteries and fuel cells to conductive-tissue regeneration in medicine. In this concise review, we describe the methods to produce branched CNSs, with particular emphasis on the most widely used b-CNTs, the experimental and theoretical studies on their properties, and the wide range of demonstrated and proposed applications, highlighting the branching structural features that ultimately allow for enhanced performance relative to traditional, unbranched CNSs. |
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spelling | pubmed-85402552021-10-24 Growth, Properties, and Applications of Branched Carbon Nanostructures Malik, Sharali Marchesan, Silvia Nanomaterials (Basel) Review Nanomaterials featuring branched carbon nanotubes (b-CNTs), nanofibers (b-CNFs), or other types of carbon nanostructures (CNSs) are of great interest due to their outstanding mechanical and electronic properties. They are promising components of nanodevices for a wide variety of advanced applications spanning from batteries and fuel cells to conductive-tissue regeneration in medicine. In this concise review, we describe the methods to produce branched CNSs, with particular emphasis on the most widely used b-CNTs, the experimental and theoretical studies on their properties, and the wide range of demonstrated and proposed applications, highlighting the branching structural features that ultimately allow for enhanced performance relative to traditional, unbranched CNSs. MDPI 2021-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8540255/ /pubmed/34685169 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano11102728 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Malik, Sharali Marchesan, Silvia Growth, Properties, and Applications of Branched Carbon Nanostructures |
title | Growth, Properties, and Applications of Branched Carbon Nanostructures |
title_full | Growth, Properties, and Applications of Branched Carbon Nanostructures |
title_fullStr | Growth, Properties, and Applications of Branched Carbon Nanostructures |
title_full_unstemmed | Growth, Properties, and Applications of Branched Carbon Nanostructures |
title_short | Growth, Properties, and Applications of Branched Carbon Nanostructures |
title_sort | growth, properties, and applications of branched carbon nanostructures |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8540255/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34685169 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano11102728 |
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