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- Jiang, Linhai, et al.
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Controlled Synthesis of CeO2/Graphene Nanocomposites with Highly Enhanced Optical and Catalytic Properties
- 2012
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Ingår i: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1932-7447 .- 1932-7455. ; 116:21, s. 11741-11745
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, CeO2 nanocubes with the (200)-terminated surface/graphene sheet composites have been prepared successfully by a simple hydrothermal method. It is found that the CeO2 nanocubes with high crystallinity and specific exposed surface are well dispersed on well-exfoliated graphene surface. The (200)-terminated surface/graphene sheet composites modified electrode showed much higher sensitivity and excellent selectivity in its catalytic performance compared to a CeO2 nanoparticle-modified electrode. The photoluminescence intensity of the CeO2 anchored on graphene is about 30 times higher than that of pristine CeO2 crystals in air. The higher oxygen vacancy concentration in CeO2 is supposed to be an important cause for the higher photoluminescence and better electrochemical catalytic performance observed in the (200)-terminated surface/graphene sheet composites. Such ingenious design of supported well-dispersed catalysts in nanostructured ceria catalysts, synthesized in one step with an exposed high-activity surface, is important for technical applications and theoretical investigations.
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- Sundqvist, Bertil, et al.
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AC impedance of A4C60 fullerides under pressure
- 2015
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Ingår i: New Journal of Physics. - : Institute of Physics (IOP). - 1367-2630. ; 17:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Three A4C60 compounds, with A = Li, Na and K, have been studied by impedance spectroscopy between 100 K and 293 K at pressures up to 2 GPa. The results are in very good agreement with earlier DC resistance studies and with data from the literature. For all three materials the measured conductivity can be fitted by a sum of at least two Arrhenius terms. The band gaps derived from the resistance data, 0.3 eV for Na4C60 and 0.5 eV for K4C60, are in excellent agreement with data measured by other methods. For Li4C60, our results disagree with a recent suggestion that the conductivity is dominated by ionic conduction. Although a certain ionic component probably exists we suggest that electronic transport dominates in our samples at and below room temperature because the derived “activation energy” decreases under pressure, the derived “activation volume” is negative, and we observe neither a significant electrode blocking capacitance nor any significant metal transport under DC conditions.
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