A5023724066- Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
- Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
- Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications
- Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
- Proteins in Food Systems
- Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
- Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
- Micro and Nano Robotics
- Advanced Materials and Mechanics
- Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
- Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
- Graphene research and applications
- Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
- Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
- Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
- Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
- Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
- Thermal properties of materials
- Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
- Characterization and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles
- Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
Texas Tech University
2022-2025
University of Notre Dame
2019-2023
Texas A&M University
2015-2022
Mitchell Institute
2017-2021
College Station Medical Center
2017-2020
Notre Dame of Dadiangas University
2019
University of Oxford
2014
CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion
2014
University of Science and Technology of China
2014
Abstract The development of new materials and their compositional microstructural optimization are essential in regard to next-generation technologies such as clean energy environmental sustainability. However, discovery have been a frustratingly slow process. Edisonian trial-and-error process is time consuming resource inefficient, particularly when contrasted with vast design spaces 1 . Whereas traditional combinatorial deposition methods can generate material libraries 2,3 , these suffer...
Emerging trends and future prospects for nanoparticle synthesis colloidal ink formulation, additive printing processes, functional devices are highlighted.
Conventional wastewater treatment systems generally require multiple steps and complex procedures to remove aqueous pollutants oil contaminants from polluted water. Herein, we fabricate an underwater superoleophobic membrane by cross-linking konjac glucomannan on pristine fabrics, demonstrating that the concept of oil–water separation principle pollutant removal can be integrated. Such biopolymer-modified fabric not only separates mixtures with high efficiency (up 99.9%), but also exhibits...
Multifunctional sensors with integrated multiple sensing capabilities have enormous potential for in situ sensing, structural health monitoring, and wearable applications. However, the fabrication of multimodal typically involves complex processing steps, which limit choices materials device form factors. Here, an aerosol jet printed flexible bimodal sensor is demonstrated by using graphene Ti3C2Tx MXene nanoinks. The can detect strain measuring a change AC resistive voltage while...
The first machine learning-assisted ultrafast flash sintering of flexible silver–selenide TE devices. Bayesian optimization variables led to a PF 2205 μW m −1 K −2 and zT 1.1 at room temperature realized with time less than 1.0 second.
The treatment of offshore oil spills requires effective oil–water separation, where would be recovered and the collected seawater used to generate fresh water for an emergency supply. Herein, a hydrophobic membrane was fabricated simply by controlled cross-linking reaction between C18-CQDs (octadecylamine-functionalized carbon quantum dots) commercial textiles using tolylene-2,4-diisocyanate. modified not only achieved efficient oil–saltwater separation (up 99%) but also exhibited unique...
The ability to synthesize compositionally complex nanostructures rapidly is a key high-throughput functional materials discovery. In addition being time-consuming, majority of conventional synthesis processes closely follow thermodynamics equilibria, which limit the discovery new classes metastable phases such as high entropy oxides (HEO). Herein, photonic flash HEO nanoparticles at timescales milliseconds demonstrated. By leveraging abrupt heating and cooling cycles induced by...
Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) is an advancing technique with significant potential for medical diagnostics and therapeutics. It detects magnetic signals from tracers superior sensitivity quantifiability than traditional methods.
Asymmetric Janus and Gemini ZrP-PNIPAM monolayer nanoplates were obtained by exfoliation of two-dimensional layered ZrP disks whose surface was covalently modified with thermosensitive polymer PNIPAM. The largely reduced interfacial tension (IFT) the oil/water interface so that they able to produce stable emulsions, PNIPAM grafting either on or edge endowed rapid temperature responsivity. proved be Pickering emulsifiers for controlled-release applications.
The first terbium (Tb)-monometallic cyanide clusterfullerene (CYCF), TbCN@C82, has been successfully synthesized and isolated, whose molecular structure was determined unambiguously as TbCN@C2(5)-C82 by single crystal X-ray diffraction. C2(5)-C82 isomeric cage represents a new capable of encapsulating monometallic cluster. C-N bond length within the encaged TbCN cluster is to be 0.94(5) Å, which smaller at least 0.17 Å than those reported triplet bonds in traditional cyanide/nitrile...
Abstract Janus colloidal surfactants with opposing wettabilities are receiving attention for their practical application in industry. Combining the advantages of molecular and particle-stabilized Pickering emulsions, generate remarkably stable emulsions. Here we report a straightforward cost-efficient strategy to develop nanoplate (JNPS) from an aluminosilicate nanoclay, halloysite, by stepwise surface modification, including innovative selective modification step. Such found be able...
Photonic materials with positionally ordered structure can interact strongly light to produce brilliant structural colors. Here, we found that the nonperiodic nematic liquid crystals of nanoplates also display color only significant orientational order. Owing loose stacking nanodiscs, such colloidal dispersion is able reflect a broad-spectrum wavelength, which reflection be further enhanced by adding carbon nanoparticles reduce background scattering. Upon addition electrolytes, vivid colors...
The ability of self-propelled nanoparticles to convert environmental energy into locomotion has led several nanomotor prototypes that are promising in numerous real-world applications. However, the vast variety nanoparticle designs prevents rapid identification optimal composition for a given application. In this study, we applied machine learning methods predict self-propulsion speed and water-cleaning efficiency micro/nanomotors (MNMs), where quality predictions was evaluated based on...
Atmospheric pressure nonthermal plasmas hold great promise for applications in environmental control, energy conversion, and material processing. Even at room temperature, produce energetic reactive species that can initiate surface modifications a plasma–surface interface, including thin-film nanoparticle assemblies, nondestructive effective way. Here, we present the plasma-activated sintering of aerosol jet printed silver thin films on substrates ranging from glass to delicate materials...
Optimizing material compositions often enhances thermoelectric performances. However, the large selection of possible base elements and dopants results in a vast composition design space that is too to systematically search using solely domain knowledge. To address this challenge, hybrid data-driven strategy integrates Bayesian optimization (BO) Gaussian process regression (GPR) proposed optimize five (Ag, Se, S, Cu, Te) AgSe-based materials. Data collected from literature provide prior...
The ever-increasing energy demand has highlighted the need for sustainable, low-carbon, and multi-functional solutions. Recently, multi-material additive manufacturing (MMAM) become an emerging processing approach to prototype storage conversion devices by enabling fabrication of complex systems in a single, streamlined process while offering design freedom customize end-product properties at precise, user-defined patterns geometries. Moreover, it provides opportunities fine-tune interfaces...
We investigate the π–π stacking of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with graphene surfaces, showing that such interactions are general across a wide range PAH sizes and species, including quantum dots. synthesized series dots sulfonyl, amino, carboxylic functional groups employed them to exfoliate disperse pristine in water. observed sulfonyl-functionalized were able stabilize highest concentration comparison other groups; this is consistent prior findings by pyrene. The nanosheets prepared...
Abstract Dynamically engineering the interfacial interaction of nanoparticles has emerged as a new approach for bottom‐up fabrication smart systems to tailor molecular diffusion and controlled release. Janus zwitterionic nanoplates are reported that can be switched between locked unlocked state at interfaces upon changing surface charge, allowing manipulation properties in fast, flexible, switchable manner. Combining experimental modeling studies, an unambiguous correlation is established...
We demonstrate a facile route to in situ growth of lyotropic zirconium phosphate (ZrP) nanoplates on textiles via an interfacial crystal growing process. The as-prepared hybrid membrane shows hierarchical architecture textile fibers (porous platform for fluid transport), ZrP nanoplatelets (layered scaffolds chemical barriers), and octadecylamine (organic species superhydrophobic functionalization). Interestingly, such is able separate the oily wastewater with high separation efficiency...
Abstract Printing techniques using nanomaterials have emerged as a versatile tool for fast prototyping and potentially large‐scale manufacturing of functional devices. Surfactants play significant role in many printing processes due to their ability reduce interfacial tension between ink solvents nanoparticles thus improve colloidal stability. Here, graphene quantum dot (GQD)‐based nanosurfactant is reported stabilize various types 2D materials aqueous inks. In particular, with superior...