Carbon coils could be synthesized using C2H2/H2 as source gases and SF6 as an incorporated additive gas under thermal chemical vapor deposition system. Nickel catalyst layer deposition and then hydrogen plasma pretreatment were performed prior to the carbon coils deposition reaction. According to the different reaction processes, the injection time of SF6 gas flow was varied. The characteristics (formation density, morphology, and geometry) of the deposited carbon coils on the substrates were investigated according to the different reaction processes. Finally, the large-scale synthesis of carbon coils and their geometry control could be achieved merely by manipulating SF6 gas flow injection time. Three cases growth aspects were proposed according to SF6 gas flow injection time in association with the fluorine's characteristics for etching the materials or enhancing the nucleation sites.
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Adv Mater
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College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China.
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Marine Natural Products Research and Development Key Laboratory of Qingdao, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266061, China.
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The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso 500 W. University Ave. El Paso TX 79968 USA
Carbon nanomaterials (CNMs), such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene quantum dots (GQDs), and carbon quantum dots (CQDs), are prevalent in biological systems and have been widely utilized in applications like environmental sensing and biomedical fields. While their presence in human matrices is projected to increase, the interfacial interactions between carbon-based nanoscopic platforms and biomolecular systems continue to remain underexplored. In this study, we investigated the effect of gelatin-sourced CQDs on the globular milk protein beta-lactoglobulin (BLG).
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Department of Biomedical Engineering, UConn School of Dental Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, CT, USA.
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