• Covalently bonded three-dimensional carbon nanotube solids via boron induced nanojunctions 

      Hashim, Daniel P.; Narayanan, Narayanan T.; Romo Herrera, José Manuel; Cullen, David; Hahm, Myung Gwan; Lezzi, Peter; Suttle, Joseph R.; Kelkhoff, Doug; Muñoz Sandoval, Emilio; Ganguli, Sabyasachi; Roy, Ajit K.; Smith, David J.; Vajtai, Robert; Sumpter, Bobby G.; Meunier, Vincent; Terrones Maldonado, Humberto; Terrones Maldonado, Mauricio; Ajayan, Pulickel M. (2012)
      "The establishment of covalent junctions between carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and the modification of their straight tubular morphology are two strategies needed to successfully synthesize nanotube-based three-dimensional (3D) ...
    • GaN haeckelite single-layered nanostructures: monolayer and nanotubes 

      Camacho Mojica, Dulce Carolina; López Urías, Florentino (2015-12)
      "Nowadays, III-V semiconductors are interesting candidate materials for the tailoring of two dimensional (2D) graphene-like structures. These new 2D materials have attracted profound interest opening the possibility to ...
    • Identification of individual and few layers of WS2 using Raman Spectroscopy 

      Botello Méndez, Andrés Rafael; Perea López, Néstor; Elías Arriaga, Ana Laura; Vincent Crespi; López Urías, Florentino; Terrones Maldonado, Humberto; Terrones Maldonado, Mauricio (2013-04)
      "The Raman scattering of single-and few-layered WS2 is studied as a function of the number of S-W-S layers and the excitation wavelength in the visible range (488, 514 and 647 nm). For the three excitation wavelengths used ...
    • Novel hetero-layered materials with tunable direct band gaps by sandwiching different metal disulfides and diselenides 

      Terrones Maldonado, Humberto; López Urías, Florentino; Terrones Maldonado, Mauricio (2013-03)
      "Although bulk hexagonal phases of layered semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (STMD) such as MoS2, WS2, WSe2 and MoSe2 exhibit indirect band gaps, a mono-layer of STMD possesses a direct band gap which could ...
    • Two sprayer CVD synthesis of nitrogen-doped carbon sponge-type nanomaterials 

      Muñoz Sandoval, Emilio; Fajardo Díaz, Juan Luis; Sánchez Salas, Roque; Cortés López, Alejandro Javier; López Urías, Florentino (2018)
      "Nitrogen-doped carbon sponge-type nanostructures (N-CSTNs) containing coaxial multiwalled carbon nanotubes are synthesized at 1020?°C by using a modified chemical vapor deposition (CVD) arrangement. Here, the CVD reactor ...
    • Understanding the ion-induced elongation of silver nanoparticles embedded in silica 

      Peña Rodríguez, Ovidio; Prada, Alejandro; Olivares, José; Oliver G., Alicia; Rodríguez Fernández, Luis; Silva Pereyra, Héctor Gabriel; Bringa, Eduardo M.; Perlado, José Manuel; Rivera, Antonio (2017-04)
      "In this work we have studied the elongation of silver nanoparticles irradiated with 40 MeV Bromine ions by means of in situ optical measurements, transmission electron microscopy and molecular dynamics simulations. The ...
    • Wrinkled nitrogen-doped carbon belts 

      Fajardo Díaz, Juan Luis; López Urías, Florentino; Muñoz Sandoval, Emilio (2018)
      "Graphene, carbon nanotubes, and fullerenes are nanomaterials with outstanding properties such as electrical, thermal, mechanical strength, flexibility, and high surface area. These nanomaterials are used as building blocks ...