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Franklin Templeton issues apology to Sebi for global chief's remarks

Stung by the comments made by the global chief, market regulator on Thursday issued a press release defending the new rules it introduced in October last year




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US Federal Reserve won't take rates negative, say fund managers, economists

Fed funds futures, which are a gauge of where markets expect the Fed's benchmark overnight lending rate to be, are now pricing in a slightly negative rate environment beginning in December




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Nomura predicts Indian GDP to contract by 5.2% in FY21, more rate cuts

Analysts at Goldman Sachs expect the Indian economy to contract 0.4 per cent in FY21 versus consensus median 2.7 per cent




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Only 13% of industrial units resume ops after Odisha eases lockdown

Micro units in the state have not been able to resume operations to catch up with their larger peers




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Amarinder Singh asks administration to ensure welfare of migrant workers

The chief minister asked the industry ministry to "aggressively" pursue the development of the four industrial parks already announced by the state government in the budget for this fiscal.




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Export contraction in April could surpass March's steep 25-year decline

Major forex earning sectors cite lack of labour, funds and key supplies




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Govt hikes market borrowing limit by over 50% to Rs 12 trillion

The government resorts to market borrowing to make up for the mismatch between its revenue and expenditure.




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Govt must work to revive consumption, not worry about rating: Rahul Gandhi

Congress wants lockdown lifted across country on May 18, save hotspots; Gandhi urges Centre to make citizens 'psychologically' prepared to for lockdown exit




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Govt hikes borrowing limit by over 50% to Rs 12 trn as virus grips economy

Sources say the Centre has asked RBI to do whatever to keep yields in check, which may result in massive secondary market bond purchases




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HC orders closure of Liquor shops in Tamil Nadu, allows online sales

The opening of shops in districts, except Chennai on May 7, has resulted in people thronging the outlets without maintaining social distancing norms




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Working closely with states on labour reforms to help industry: Centre

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) suggested to the Labour Ministry to "direct workers to join back to their workplace" by issuing a circular




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Covid-19 lockdown effect: Every second Indian now on internet in cities

The data released by Nielsen and the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) shows that internet usage has grown sharply in cities over the last one month, touching 54 per cent




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Additional borrowing to widen fiscal deficit, but help govt perk up economy

He did not think that the move will crowd out borrowings of the private sector, saying demand of the government and the private sector are not contradictory in these circumstances




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FM to discuss credit flow to NBFCs, businesses with banks on Monday

The FM will take stock of the credit sanction and disbursement by the banks since March 1, 2020, and the Covid-19-related emergency credit lines opened by the lenders




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Sitharaman launches two exchanges to take on offshore currency market

The launch comes amid the world's most expansive coronavirus lockdown, which has crippled businesses and hurt trading volumes in the country's financial markets.




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Ministry of Defence inks Rs 1,200 cr contract to boost electronics sector

The deal, Modernisation of Air Field Infrastructure Phase 2 (MAFI-2), follows from an earlier contract, called MAFI-1, which TPSED won in 2011 to upgrade 30 IAF airfields.




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Lockdown worsening poverty levels among workers in informal economy: ILO

In high-income countries, relative poverty levels among informal workers are estimated to increase by 52 percentage points




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Tamil Nadu CM asks PM to keep Electricity Amendment Bill on hold till talks

Proposed Bill takes away certain powers of the State government, and seeks to bring in changes in the existing Electricity Act that would make power utilities in the public sector totally unviable




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Release of graphene-related materials from epoxy-based composites: characterization, quantification and hazard assessment in vitro

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10245K, Paper
Open Access
Woranan Netkueakul, Daria Korejwo, Tobias Hammer, Savvina Chortarea, Patrick Rupper, Oliver Braun, Michel Calame, Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Tina Buerki-Thurnherr, Peter Wick, Jing Wang
We measured the cytotoxicity of pristine GRMs and the abraded particles from epoxy/GRM composites, which indicated low risks to consumers of such composites.
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RGD functionalized chitosan nanoparticle mediated targeted delivery of raloxifene selectively suppresses angiogenesis and tumor growth in breast cancer

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10673A, Paper
Amit S. Yadav, N. Naga Venkata Radharani, Mahadeo Gorain, Anuradha Bulbule, Dattatrya Shetti, Gaurab Roy, Thejus Baby, Gopal C. Kundu
Peptide functionalized pH sensitive raloxifene-chitosan nanoparticles with high biocompatibility synergistically inhibit tumor growth and angiogenesis in breast cancer.
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Efficient sub-15 nm cubic-phase core/shell upconversion nanoparticles as reporters for ensemble and single particle studies

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02172E, Paper
Meiling Tan, Melissa-Jane Monks, Dingxin Huang, Yongjun Meng, Xuewen Chen, Ying Zhou, Shuang-Fang Lim, Christian Würth, Ute Resch-Genger, Guanying Chen
A set of sub-15 nm ytterbium-enriched α-NaYbF4:Er3+@CaF2 core/shell upconversion nanoparticles have been developed for both ensemble- and single particle-level imaging studies, presenting a high quantum yield of 0.77% at a low saturation power density of 110 W cm−2.
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Conductive-bridging random-access memories for emerging neuromorphic computing

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01671C, Review Article
Jun-Hwe Cha, Sang Yoon Yang, Jungyeop Oh, Shinhyun Choi, Sangsu Park, Byung Chul Jang, Wonbae Ahn, Sung-Yool Choi
This review covers CBRAM-based artificial synapses and neurons towards emerging computing applications from the operation principles of CBRAMs to state-of-the-art experimental demonstrations.
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Dual-sensitized Upconversion-assisted, Triple-band Absorbing Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01008A, Paper
Sung Kyung Nam, Kiwon Kim, Ji-Hwan Kang, Jun Hyuk Moon
Luminescent solar concentrator-photovoltaic systems (LSC-PV) harvest solar light by using transparent photoluminescent plates, which is expected to be particularly useful for building-integrated PV applications. LSC panels that absorb multiple wavelength...
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Dy2@C79N: A New Member of Dimetalloazafullerenes with Strong Single Molecular Magnetism

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02519D, Paper
Yuanyuan Wang, Jin Xiong, Jie Su, Zi-Qi Hu, Fang Ma, Rong Sun, Xue-You Tan, Hao-Ling Sun, Bingwu Wang, Zujin Shi, Song Gao
Enhancing the exchange interaction between magnetic ions is a long-term target in molecular magnetism. Endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) provide a possibility for achieving such a goal by imprisoning multiple magnetic centers...
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Cellular Architecture Response to Aspect Ratio Tunable Nanoarrays

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01003K, Paper
Jing Dai, Jinkang Gong, Na Kong, Yuan Yao
Nanoarrays have been emerging as popular nanostructure platforms to investigate both cell behaviors and biological functions, due to the cell architecture respondence to biointerface of nanostructure. Herein, we developed a...
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Hybrid Phase 1T/2H-MoS2 with Controllable 1T Concentration and Its Promoted Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02525A, Paper
Yuxiao Zhang, Yasutaka Kuwahara, Kohsuke Mori, Catherine Louis, Hiromi Yamashita
MoS2 has been investigated as a low-cost alternative to Pt in electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction. One of the promising method to further activate MoS2 is phase engineering. MoS2 generally exhibit...
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A super stable assembled P nanowire with variant structural and magnetic/electronic properties via transition metal adsorption

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR02176H, Paper
Sukai Wang, Jinxing Gu, Yinan Dong, Linwei Sai, Fengyu Li
By means of first-principles calculations, we systematically investigated the structure, stability, magnetic and electronic properties of one-dimensional P nanowire (1D-P10 NW) assembled by Pn subunits (n = 2, 8) and...
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Multi-praseodymium-and-tungsten bridging octameric tellurotungstate and its 2D honeycomb composite film for detecting estrogen

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01901A, Paper
Yan Zhang, Jun JIang, Yifan Liu, Pan Li, Yong Liu, Lijuan Chen, Junwei Zhao
Under coordination driving force of tungsten and rare-earth (RE) bridges, we synthesized a novel giant multi-tungsten-and-RE—bridging octameric tellurotungstate (TT) [H2N(CH3)2]16K8Na6H10[Pr8(H2O)20W16O48][B-α-TeW9O33]8·70H2O (1) in CH3CN-H2O mixed solvent. The cluster anion {[Pr8(H2O)20W16O48][B-α-TeW9O33]8}40– features...
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Facile fabrication of sponge-like porous micropillar arrays via an electrochemical process

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01518K, Paper
Deyin Zheng, Chang-Hwan Choi, Xin Zhao, Guangyi Sun
Highly ordered and aligned pore structures perpendicular to the exposed surfaces are achieved on the surfaces of 3D Si microstructures.
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Wrinkle-induced highly conductive channels in graphene on SiO2/Si substrate

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01406K, Paper
Ruisong Ma, Jiajun Ma, Jiahao Yan, Liangmei Wu, Wei Guo, Shuai Wang, Qing Huan, Lihong Bao, Sokrates T Pantelides, Hong-Jun Gao
Graphene wrinkle is a quasi-one-dimensional structure and can alter the intrinsic physical and chemical activity, modify the band structure and introduce transport anisotropy in graphene thin films. However, their quasi-one-dimensional...
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Plasma-assisted filling electron beam lithography for high throughput patterning of large area closed polygon nanostructures

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01032D, Paper
You Sin Tan, Hailong Liu, Qifeng Ruan, Hao Wang, Joel K. W. Yang
The PFEBL process allows enhancement of electron beam writing efficiency for patterning of closed polygon structures using a post-exposure plasma treatment.
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Proton exchange membrane with plasmon-active surface for enhancement of fuel cell effectivity

Nanoscale, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00295J, Paper
Roman Elashnikov, Kristina Zahorjanova, Elena Miliutina, Zdenka Kolska, Miroslav Cieslar, Václav Švorčík, Oleksiy Lyutakov
The action of fuel cells with proton-exchanged membrane (PEM) requires the implementation of hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on the opposite sides of PEM. Recently, based...
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Correction: Anomalous polarization dependence of Raman scattering and crystallographic orientation of black phosphorus

Nanoscale, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR90098B, Correction
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Jungcheol Kim, Jae-Ung Lee, Jinhwan Lee, Hyo Ju Park, Zonghoon Lee, Changgu Lee, Hyeonsik Cheong
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Functional nanoarrays for investigating stem cell fate and function

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9306-9326
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10963C, Review Article
Jin-Ho Lee, Jeffrey Luo, Hye Kyu Choi, Sy-Tsong Dean Chueng, Ki-Bum Lee, Jeong-Woo Choi
An overview of the recent progress of nanoarray synthesis and applications for controlling stem cell fate and monitoring live cell functions.
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Realization of high-quality optical nanoporous gradient-index filters by optimal combination of anodization conditions

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9404-9415
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10526C, Paper
Cheryl Suwen Law, Siew Yee Lim, Lina Liu, Andrew D. Abell, Lluis F. Marsal, Abel Santos
High-quality nanoporous anodic alumina gradient-index filters are realized by sinusoidal pulse anodization under optimized anodization conditions.
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A three-dimensional Cu nanobelt cathode for highly efficient electrocatalytic nitrate reduction

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9385-9391
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10743F, Paper
Xiaodan Wang, Mengqi Zhu, Guoshen Zeng, Xun Liu, Chihhsiang Fang, Chuanhao Li
A three-dimensional Cu nanobelt cathode was developed to efficiently catalyze the electrocatalytic nitrate reduction process.
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Self-responsive co-delivery system for remodeling tumor intracellular microenvironment to promote PTEN-mediated anti-tumor therapy

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9392-9403
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00563K, Paper
Yifei Wang, Ruiting Wang, Sixuan Wu, Jingyi An, Yan Liang, Lin Hou, Zhenzhong Zhang
Delivering the pten gene into tumor cells to reacquire PTEN functionality is considered to be an attractive method for cancer treatment.
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Boosting the photocatalytic CO2 reduction of metal–organic frameworks by encapsulating carbon dots

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9533-9540
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01696A, Paper
Shumin Li, Kang Ji, Meng Zhang, Cangshuang He, Jin Wang, Zhengquan Li
Small carbon dots as cocatalysts were loaded in MOF particles for CO2 reduction and their location effect was explored.
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Ligand exchange on Au38(SR)24: substituent site effects of aromatic thiols

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9423-9429
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01430C, Paper
Yingwei Li, Rosalba Juarez-Mosqueda, Yongbo Song, Yuzhuo Zhang, Jinsong Chai, Giannis Mpourmpakis, Rongchao Jin
Ligand exchange on Au38(SR)24 with 21 different thiols reveals the substituent site effects of ligands on nanocluster transformation, and “anagostic” interactions are observed.
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Ionic liquid assisted preparation and modulation of the photoluminescence kinetics for highly efficient CsPbX3 nanocrystals with improved stability

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9569-9580
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00579G, Paper
Ting Chen, Yanqiao Xu, Zhixiang Xie, Weihui Jiang, Lianjun Wang, Wan Jiang
A facile approach was performed to synthesize CsPbBr3 NCs with the assistance of ionic liquid [Bmim]Br, which could modulate the surface property and enhace the stability of NCs effectively.
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Strong plasmon–exciton coupling between lithographically defined single metal nanoparticles and monolayer WSe2

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9708-9716
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01056A, Paper
Xiaohong Yan, Hong Wei
Strong coupling between monolayer WSe2 and lithographically defined single gold nanobowties is realized for the first time, and smaller nanobowties lead to larger coupling strength.
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Interfacial synergy between dispersed Ru sub-nanoclusters and porous NiFe layered double hydroxide on accelerated overall water splitting by intermediate modulation

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9669-9679
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01491E, Paper
Yao Wang, Peng Zheng, Mingxuan Li, Yunrui Li, Xin Zhang, Juan Chen, Xu Fang, Yujie Liu, Xiaolin Yuan, Xiaoping Dai, Hai Wang
Benefitting from the desired potential-induced interfacial synergy, the Ru–NiFe LDH interfaces will convert to RuO2–NiFe(OOH)x interfaces to meet the requirements of an anode and cathode reaction, respectively.
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Analysis of sparse molecular distributions in fibrous arrangements based on the distance to the first neighbor in single molecule localization microscopy

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9495-9506
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10805J, Paper
Alan M. Szalai, Lucía F. Lopez, Miguel Ángel Morales-Vásquez, Fernando D. Stefani, Pedro F. Aramendía
We introduce a robust and sensitive metric to characterize the underlying structure responsible for the molecular distribution, even at a very low labeling density.
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Facile synthesis of core–shell structured Si@graphene balls as a high-performance anode for lithium-ion batteries

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9616-9627
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01346C, Paper
Anif Jamaluddin, Bharath Umesh, Fuming Chen, Jeng-Kuei Chang, Ching-Yuan Su
Encapsulating silicon (Si) nanoparticles with graphene nanosheets in a microspherical structure is proposed to increase electrical conductivity and solve stability issues when using Si as an anode material in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs).
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The CpG molecular structure controls the mineralization of calcium phosphate nanoparticles and their immunostimulation efficacy as vaccine adjuvants

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9603-9615
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR09782A, Paper
Razieh Khalifehzadeh, Hamed Arami
Effects of the CpG molecular structure on the mineralization and immunostimulation efficacy of calcium phosphate nanoparticles are explored for vaccine delivery applications.
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A high-efficiency ammonia-responsive solar evaporator

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9680-9687
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00791A, Paper
Jingjing Xing, Jintao Tong, Ye Liu, Yutong Guo, Lanjian Zhuge, Dafeng Zhang, Ruomeng Duan, Bo Song, Yu Zhao, Bin Dong
We report a highly efficient solar evaporator based on the TiO2NP and PPyNP composite with ammonia responsiveness.
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Oxygen vacancy-rich amorphous porous NiFe(OH)x derived from Ni(OH)x/Prussian blue as highly efficient oxygen evolution electrocatalysts

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9557-9568
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00607F, Paper
Shuang Wang, Xingbo Ge, Chao Lv, Cun Hu, Hongtai Guan, Jing Wu, Zhengnan Wang, Xianhui Yang, Yan Shi, Jiangfeng Song, Zhi Zhang, Akira Watanabe, Jinguang Cai
Oxygen vacancy-rich amorphous porous NiFe(OH)x on carbon paper is prepared through a two-step electrochemical depostion of Prussian blue nanocrystal layer and Ni(OH)x layer followed by an alkaline etching process for efficient OER catalysis.
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A broadband and low-power light-control-light effect in a fiber-optic nano-optomechanical system

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9800-9809
DOI: 10.1039/C9NR10953F, Paper
Yu Zhang, Wenguo Zhu, Pengpeng Fan, Yelin He, Linqing Zhuo, Zhen Che, Dongquan Li, Huadan Zheng, Linpeng Dong, Jieyuan Tang, Wentao Qiu, Jun Zhang, Yongchun Zhong, Jianhui Yu, Zhe Chen
A tapered-nanofibre optomechanical scheme, together with the pump–probe technique, is exploited to implement a broadband and low-power light-control-light effect.
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A solution-processed zero-dimensional all-inorganic perovskite scintillator for high resolution gamma-ray spectroscopy detection

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9727-9732
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR00772B, Paper
Qiang Xu, Juan Wang, Wenyi Shao, Xiao Ouyang, Xiang Wang, Xinlei Zhang, Yong Guo, Xiaoping Ouyang
A zero-dimensional all-inorganic CsPbBr3 nanocrystal embedded Cs4PbBr6 scintillator has been achieved. Owing to the low dimensional quantum effect, this all-inorganic scintillator exhibits desirable scintillation performance.
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N- & S-co-doped carbon nanofiber network embedded with ultrafine NiCo nanoalloy for efficient oxygen electrocatalysis and Zn–air batteries

Nanoscale, 2020, 12,9581-9589
DOI: 10.1039/D0NR01516D, Paper
Chaojun Liu, Zhuang Wang, Xin Zong, Yingmin Jin, Dong Li, Yueping Xiong, Gang Wu
A 3D carbon nanofiber network embedded with ultrafine nanoparticles is prepared by electrospinning. Thioacetamide is used to prevent the aggregation of active sites.
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