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Pore structure and electrochemical properties of CNT-based electrodes studied by in situ small/wide angle X-ray scattering
Cleis Santos, Evgeny Senokos, Juan Carlos Fernández-Toribio +3
Macroscopic ensembles of nanocarbons, such as fibres of carbon nanotubes (CNT), are characterised by a complex hierarchical structure combining coherent crystalline regions with a…
Origin of the electrocatalytic activity in carbon nanotube fiber counter-electrodes for solar-energy conversion
Alba Martínez-Muíño, Moumita Rana, Juan J. Vilatela +1
However, their electrocatalytic activity is still poorly understood. This work deciphers the origin of the catalytic activity of counter-electrodes (CEs)/current collectors made of…
Composite fabrics of conformal MoS2 grown on CNT fibers: tough battery anodes without metals or binders
Moumita Rana, Nicola Boaretto, Anastasiia Mikhalchan +3
In the quest to increase battery performance, nanostructuring battery electrodes gives access to architectures with electrical conductivity and solid-state diffusion regimes not ac…
Low-energy consumption, free-form capacitive deionisation through nanostructured networks
Cleis Santos, Inés V. Rodríguez, Julio J. Lado +5
Capacitive Deionization (CDI) is a non-energy intensive water treatment technology. To harness the enormous potential of CDI requires improving performance, while offering industri…
Photoelectrocatalytic detection of NADH on n-type silicon semiconductors facilitated by carbon nanotube fibers
Melisa del Barrio, Moumita Rana, Juan José Vilatela +3
NADH is a key biomolecule involved in many biocatalytic processes as cofactor and its quantification can be correlated to specific enzymatic activity. Many efforts have been taken…
Simultaneous improvements in conversion and properties of molecularly controlled CNT fibres
Anastasiia Mikhalchan, María Vila, Luis Arévalo +1
Fibres of ultralong and aligned carbon nanotubes (CNT) have axial properties above reference engineering materials, proving to be exceptional materials for application in structura…
Transparent and flexible high-power supercapacitor based on carbon nanotube fibre aerogels
Evgeny Senokos, Moumita Rana, Maria Vila +4
In this work, we report on the fabrication of continuous transparent and flexible supercapacitors by depositing a CNT network onto a polymer electrolyte membrane directly from an a…
Macroscopic yarns of FeCl-intercalated collapsed carbon nano-tubes with high doping and stability
Cristina Madrona, María Vila, Freddy E. Oropeza +2
Macroscopic arrays of highly crystalline nanocarbons offer the possibility of modifying the electronic structure of their low dimensional constituents, for example through doping,…
Interfacial studies in CNT fibre/TiO photoelectrodes for efficient H production
Alicia Moya, Mariam Barawi, Belén Alemán +6
An attractive class of materials for photo(electro)chemical reactions are hybrids based on semiconducting metal oxides and nanocarbons (e.g. carbon nanotubes (CNT), graphene), wher…
Carbon nanotube synthesis and spinning as macroscopic fibers assisted by the ceramic reactor tube
X. Rodiles, V. Reguero, M. Vila +5
Macroscopic fibers of carbon nanotubes (CNT) have emerged as an ideal architecture to exploit the exceptional properties of CNT building blocks in applications ranging from energy…
Revealing the Mechanism of Electrochemical Lithiation of Carbon Nanotube Fibers
Nicola Boaretto, Moumita Rana, Rebeca Marcilla +1
Fabrics of continuous fibers of carbon nanotubes (CNTFs) are attractive materials for multifunctional energy storage devices, either as current collector, or as active material. De…
Damage-tolerant, laminated structural supercapacitor composites enabled by integration of carbon nanotube fibres
Moumita Rana, Yunfu Ou, Chenchen Meng +3
A natural embodiment for multifunctional materials combining energy-storing capabilities and structural mechanical properties are layered structures, similar to both laminate struc…
Controlled electrochemical functionalization of CNT fibers: structure-chemistry relations and application in current collector-free all-solid supercapacitors
Evgeny Senokosa, Moumita Ranaa, Cleis Santosa +2
Chemical functionalization of nanocarbons is an important strategy to produce electrochemical systems with higher energy/power density by generating surface functional groups with…
High Rate Hybrid MnO2@CNT Fabric Anode for Li-Ion Batteries: Properties and Lithium Storage Mechanism by In-Situ Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering
Moumita Rana, Venkata Sai Avvaru, Nicola Boaretto +4
High-performance anodes for rechargeable Li-ion battery are produced by nanostructuring of the transition metal oxides on a conductive support. Here, we demonstrate a hybrid materi…
Understanding cooperative loading in carbon nanotube fibres through in-situ structural studies during stretching
J. C. Fernández-Toribio, A. Mikhalchan, C. Santos +2
Carbon nanotube (CNT) fibres are firmly established as a new high-performance fibre, but their tensile mechanical properties remain a relatively small fraction of those of the cons…
A Perspective on High-performance CNT fibres for Structural Composites
A. Mikhalchan, J. J. Vilatela
This review summarizes progress on structural composites with carbon nanotube fibres. It starts by analyzing their development towards a macroscopic ensemble of elongated and align…
A Route to High-Toughness Battery Electrodes
N. Boaretto, J. Almenara, A. Mikhalchan +2
There is increasing interest in materials that combine energy-storing functions with augmented mechanical properties, ranging from flexibility in bending to stretchability to struc…
Molecular characterization of macroscopic aerogels of single-walled carbon nanotubes
Belén Alemán, Juan J. Vilatela
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) can be assembled into various macroscopic architectures, most notably continuous fibers and films, produced currently on a kilometer per day…
Tensile properties of carbon nanotube fibres described by the fibrillar crystallite model
J. C. Fernández-Toribio, B. Alemán, A. Ridruejo +1
This work presents a model that successfully describes the tensile properties of macroscopic fibres of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The core idea is to treat such a fibre as a network…
Advanced Surface Chemistry Analysis of Carbon Nanotube Fibers by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Belén Alemán, María Vila, Juan J. Vilatela
Carbon nanotube fibers are materials with an exceptional combination of properties, including higher toughness than carbon fibers, electrical conductivity above metals, large speci…
Gas-phase functionalization of macroscopic carbon nanotube fiber fabrics: reaction control, electrochemical properties and use for flexible supercapacitors
Daniel Iglesias, Evgeny Senokos, Belén Alemán +6
The assembly of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNT) into fibers (CNTF) is a convenient approach to exploit and apply the unique physico-chemical properties of CNTs in many fields. CNT f…
Large area photoelectrodes based on hybrids of CNT fibres and ALD grown TiO2
A. Moya, N. Kemnade, M. R. Osorio +4
Hybridisation is a powerful strategy towards the next generation of multifunctional materials for environmental and sustainable energy applications. Here, we report a new inorganic…
Manganese Dioxide Decoration of Macroscopic Carbon Nanotube Fibers: From High-Performance Liquid-Based to All-Solid-State Supercapacitors
Afshin Pendashteh, Evgeny Senokos, Jesus Palma +3
Supercapacitors capable of providing high voltage, energy and power density but yet light, low volume occupying, flexible and mechanically robust are highly interesting and demande…
Fractal carbon nanotube fibers with mesoporous crystalline structure
H. Yue, V. Reguero, E. Senokos +5
Macroscopic fibres of carbon nanotubes are hierarchical structures combining long building blocks preferentially oriented along the fibre axis and a large porosity arising from the…