Ni0.33Co0.66(OH)F hollow hexagons woven by MWCNTs for high-performance lithium-ion batteries

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (41) ◽  
pp. 20690-20697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaping Chen ◽  
Yufei Zhang ◽  
Jun Yang ◽  
Ziyang Dai ◽  
Nina Fu ◽  
...  

A template-free two-step strategy is successfully developed for the low-cost one pot production of Ni0.33Co0.66(OH)F hollow hexagons woven by multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs).

2016 ◽  
Vol 211 ◽  
pp. 720-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashim Gurung ◽  
Roya Naderi ◽  
Bjorn Vaagensmith ◽  
Geetha Varnekar ◽  
Zhengping Zhou ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Yaofeng Wang ◽  
Fan Wang ◽  
Yang Kong ◽  
Lei Wang ◽  
Qinchuan Li

Abstract High-performance bioartificial muscles with low-cost, large bending deformation, low actuation voltage, and fast response time have drawn extensive attention as the development of human-friendly electronics in recent years. Here, we report a high-performance ionic bioartificial muscle based on the bacterial cellulose (BC)/ionic liquid (IL)/multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) nanocomposite membrane and PEDOT:PSS electrode. The developed ionic actuator exhibits excellent electro-chemo-mechanical properties, which are ascribed to its high ionic conductivity, large specific capacitance, and ionically crosslinked structure resulting from the strong ionic interaction and physical crosslinking among BC, IL, and MWCNT. In particular, the proposed BC-IL-MWCNT (0.10 wt%) nanocomposite exhibited significant increments of Young's modulus up to 75% and specific capacitance up to 77%, leading to 2.5 times larger bending deformation than that of the BC-IL actuator. More interestingly, bioinspired applications containing artificial soft robotic finger and grapple robot were successfully demonstrated based on high-performance BC-IL-MWCNT actuator with excellent sensitivity and controllability. Thus, the newly proposed BC-IL-MWCNT bioartificial muscle will offer a viable pathway for developing next-generation artificial muscles, soft robotics, wearable electronic products, flexible tactile devices, and biomedical instruments.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1095-1101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Hu ◽  
Yuanchun Ji ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Carsten Streb ◽  
Yu-Fei Song

A universal one-step strategy for the periodic deposition of redox-active polyoxometalate nanocrystals on single-walled carbon nanotubes is reported, giving access to high-performance electrodes for lithium-ion batteries.


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