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Aromatic molecular junctions between graphene sheets: a molecular dynamics screening for enhanced thermal conductance
Alessandro Di Pierro, Maria Mar Bernal, Diego Martinez +3
The proper design and synthesis of molecular junctions for the purpose of establishing percolative networks of conductive nanoparticles represent an opportunity to develop more eff…
Thermal bridging of graphene nanosheets via covalent molecular junctions. a Non-Equilibrium Green Functions Density Functional Tight-Binding study
Diego Martinez, Alessandro di Pierro, Alessandro Pecchia +7
Despite the uniquely high thermal conductivity of graphene is well known, the exploitation of graphene into thermally conductive nanomaterials and devices is limited by the ineffic…
Edge-Grafted Molecular Junctions between Graphene Nanoplatelets: Applied Chemistry to Enhance Heat Transfer in Nanomaterials
M. Mar Bernal, Alessandro Di Pierro, Chiara Novara +4
The edge-functionalization of graphene nanoplatelets (GnP) was carried out exploiting diazonium chemistry, aiming at the synthesis of edge decorated nanoparticles to be used as bui…
Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Efficient Flame Retardant Coatings Based On High Aspect Ratio Graphene Oxide and Chitosan Capable of Preventing Ignition of PU Foam
Lorenza Maddalena, Federico Carosio, Julio Gomez +2
The layer-by-layer (LbL) technique is adopted for the construction of multilayers encompassing chitosan and graphene oxide (GO) platelets capable of improving the flame retardant p…
Thermally and Electrically Conductive Nanopapers from Reduced Graphene Oxide: effect of nanoflakes thermal annealing on the film structure and properties
Maria del Mar Bernal, Mauro Tortello, Samuele Colonnaa +2
In this study, we report a different strategy to prepare graphene nanopapers from direct vacuum filtration. Instead of the conventional method, i.e. thermal annealing nanopapers at…
Super nucleation and orientation of poly (butylene terephthalate) crystals in nanocomposites containing highly reduced graphene oxide
Samuele Colonna, Ricardo A. Pérez, Haiming Chen +5
The ring opening polymerization of cyclic butylene terephthalate into poly (butylene terephthalate) (pCBT) in the presence of reduced graphene oxide (RGO) is an effective method fo…
Molecular junctions for thermal transport between graphene nanoribbons: covalent bonding vs. interdigitated chains
Alessandro Di Pierro, Guido Saracco, Alberto Fina
Proper design and manufacturing thermal bridges based on molecular junctions at the contact between graphene platelets or other thermally conductive nanoparticles would provide a f…