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Description:: Lithium-ion battery technology is a critically important component of the emerging renewable energy infrastructure. Since battery technology was first commercialized in the 1990s, significant progress has been made in materials development, motivated by the prospect of higher energy and power densities, increased cycling longevity, and faster charging and discharging rates....
Keyword:: lithium-ion, graphene, degradation, nanomaterials, coating, and batteries
Subject:: Nanotechnology, Nanoscience, and Energy
Creator:: Luu, Norman Sean
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_949577 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16385

Description:: Nanomaterials present an exciting landscape of innovation at length scales below 100 nm, wherein controllable synthesis and materials metrology have led to tunable structure-property relationships and next-generation products. The disruptive field of nanotechnology is poised to capitalize upon the exotic chemistry and physics of these nanomaterials to enable more efficient...
Keyword:: graphene, scalable manufacturing, nanomaterials, nanomanufacturing, 2D materials, and electronic materials
Subject:: Nanotechnology, Materials Science, and Engineering
Creator:: Downing, Julia Rocio
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16548 and etdadmin_upload_985168

Description:: Electrochemical energy storage devices have become increasingly relevant to the operation and sustainability of the modern world, as proliferation of mobile electronics, renewable electrical energy generators, electrical vehicles, and various high-tech bio-medical sensing device continues. The widespread need of easier to produce, better performing, and multifunctional energy storage materials in...
Keyword:: battery, graphene, carbon, supercapacitor, and energy storage
Subject:: Materials Science and Engineering
Creator:: Yue Yang Yu
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/21/2019
Date Modified:: 10/21/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Graphene sheets (one-atom-thick, two-dimensional layers of sp2-bonded carbon) are predicted to have a range of unusual properties. Recent studies have shown that individual graphene sheets have extraordinary electrical properties, but an efficient method of graphite exfoliation remains a challenge. A number of approaches to exfoliation have been tried, such as...
Keyword:: graphene, graphite oxide, high impedance resistance, nanocomposite, variable range hopping, and polystyrene
Subject:: Physics and Astronomy
Creator:: Geoffrey Hugh Brett Dommett
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/02/2018
Date Modified:: 08/02/2018
Date Created:: 2007-06-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Graphene offers promising opportunities for applications in printed and flexible electronic devices due to its high electrical and thermal conductivity, mechanical flexibility and strength, and chemical and environmental stability. However, scalable production and processing of graphene presents a critical technological challenge preventing the application of graphene for flexible electronic interconnects,...
Keyword:: carbon nanomaterials,, graphene, conductive inks, inkjet printing, and printed electronics
Subject:: Materials Science and Engineering
Creator:: Ethan Benjamin Secor
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/30/2018
Date Modified:: 04/30/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Anisotropic semiconducting thin films have attracted attention in recent years for important applications such as electrical interconnects, electronic sensors, field-emission devices and thermoelectric devices. However, the characterization of the full conductivity tensor, especially the cross-plane conductivity, remains a great challenge for anisotropic thin films. In addition, the synthesis of large-area...
Keyword:: magnetotransport, anisotropic, graphene, transverse thermoelectrics, thin film, and 3D printing
Subject:: Electrical Engineering
Creator:: Yang Tang
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2018
Date Modified:: 02/13/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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