Tailoring insoluble nanobelts into soluble anti-UV nanopotpourris
Author
Wang, J.
Sun, X. W.
Jiao, Z.
Khoo, E.
Lee, P. S.
Ma, J.
Demir, Hilmi Volkan
Date
2011Source Title
Nanoscale
Print ISSN
2040-3364
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry
Volume
3
Issue
11
Pages
4742 - 4745
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
Soluble, transparent and anti-UV nanopotpourris have been prepared by tailoring long nanobelts. The strains and layered structures facilitate the breaking of the as-synthesized nanobelts under an applied mechanical action. The developed tailoring process of nanobelts is a general top-down secondary processing of layered nanostructures at the nanoscale level, which can be expended to the modifications of layered nanowires, nanotubes and hierarchical nanostructures. By tailoring, the size, morphology and solubility are modified, which may open up an area of advanced processing of nanomaterials and hint at some potential applications. Because of the excellent solubility of the tailored nanopotpourris, they are easily dispersed in cosmetics or polymer films, which are quite useful for some anti-UV protection applications, such as anti-UV sunscreen creams and anti-UV window films for vehicles and buildings.
Keywords
One-dimensional NanostructuresMagnesium Insertion
Carbon Nanotubes
Growth
Oxides
Nanorings,nanowires
Batteries
Crystals
Kinetics