Abdalla M. Abdalla, Shahzad Hossain, Ozzan B. Nisfindy, Atia Tasfiah Azad et al.
The energy demand worldwide has increased significantly with the increase in population. This is because energy is needed in almost every activity. For example, in industry, working, cleaning, transportation and commuting from one place to another. The majority of energy being used is obtained from ...
H. P. S. Abdul Khalil, Yalda Davoudpour, Nazrul Islam, Asniza Mustapha et al.
Nanofibrillated cellulose from biomass has recently gained attention owing to their biodegradable nature, low density, high mechanical properties, economic value and renewability. Although they still suffer from two major drawbacks. The first challenge is the exploration of raw materials and its app...
Yifen Shang, Md. Kamrul Hasan, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Mengqi Li et al.
In the era of climate change, global agricultural systems are facing numerous, unprecedented challenges. In order to achieve food security, advanced nano-engineering is a handy tool for boosting crop production and assuring sustainability. Nanotechnology helps to improve agricultural production by i...
Lei Zhang, Xiao Qing Chen, Shuo Liu, Qian Zhang et al.
The recently proposed digital coding metasurfaces make it possible to control electromagnetic (EM) waves in real time, and allow the implementation of many different functionalities in a programmable way. However, current configurations are only space-encoded, and do not exploit the temporal dimensi...
Mahmuda Akter, Md. Tajuddin Sikder, Md. Mostafizur Rahman, A. K. M. Atique Ullah et al.
With the development of nanotechnology, silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) have become one of the most in-demand nanoparticles owing to their exponential number of uses in various sectors. The increased use of Ag-NPs-enhanced products may result in an increased level of toxicity affecting both the enviro...
Lianlin Li, Tie Jun Cui, Wei Ji, Shuo Liu et al.
Metasurfaces have enabled a plethora of emerging functions within an ultrathin dimension, paving way towards flat and highly integrated photonic devices. Despite the rapid progress in this area, simultaneous realization of reconfigurability, high efficiency, and full control over the phase and ampli...
Emanuel Fleige, Mohiuddin Quadir, Rainer Haag
The use of polymeric nanocarriers to transport active compounds like small-molecular drugs, peptides, or genes found an increased attention throughout the different fields of natural sciences. Not only that these nanocarriers enhance the properties of already existing drugs in terms of solubility, b...
Sarwar Hossen, M. Khalid Hossain, Mohammad Khairul Basher, M.N.H. Mia et al.
Nonspecific distribution and uncontrollable release of drugs in conventional drug delivery systems (CDDSs) have led to the development of smart nanocarrier-based drug delivery systems, which are also known as Smart Drug Delivery Systems (SDDSs). SDDSs can deliver drugs to the target sites with reduc...
Jiajun Mao, James Iocozzia, Jianying Huang, Kai Meng et al.
Concerns over air quality reduction and energy crisis resulting from rapid consumption of limited fossil fuels have driven the development of clean and renewable energy sources.
Md. Saifur Rahman, Md. Saif Hasan, Ashis Sutradhar Nitai, Sunghyun Nam et al.
Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) is one of the most promising cellulose derivatives. Due to its characteristic surface properties, mechanical strength, tunable hydrophilicity, viscous properties, availability and abundance of raw materials, low-cost synthesis process, and likewise many contrasting aspe...
Taotao Li, Wei Guo, Liang Ma, Weisheng Li et al.
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, in particular transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), have attracted great interest in extending Moore's law beyond silicon 1-3 . However, despite extensive efforts 4-25 , the growth of wafer-scale TMDC single crystals on scalable and industry-compatible substr...
Md. Sajibul Alam Bhuyan, Md. Nizam Uddin, Md. Maksudul Islam, Ferdaushi Alam Bipasha et al.
Graphene, a two-dimensional material of sp2 hybridization carbon atoms, has fascinated much attention in recent years owing to its extraordinary electronic, optical, magnetic, thermal, and mechanical properties as well as large specific surface area. For the tremendous application of graphene in nan...
Shafiqul Islam, M. A. Rahman Bhuiyan, Md. Nurul Islam
Shuhui Li, Jianying Huang, Zhong Chen, Guoqiang Chen et al.
In this review, we have briefly summarized the fundamental theoretical models and characterization methods of textile surfaces with special wettability, various fabrication technologies and potential applications.
Md. Minhajul Islam, Md. Shahruzzaman, Shanta Biswas, Md. Nurus Sakib et al.
In recent years, there have been increasingly rapid advances of using bioactive materials in tissue engineering applications. Bioactive materials constitute many different structures based upon ceramic, metallic or polymeric materials, and can elicit specific tissue responses. However, most of them ...
Chunxiao Cong, Jingzhi Shang, Xing‐Long Wu, Bingchen Cao et al.
Large-area triangular single crystals of WS2 monolayer are synthesised from a chemical vapor deposition process and their optical properties are systematicly studied. This work paves the way to fabricate large-area single crystalline 2D semiconductors and study their fundamentals. It must be very me...
Chuanfang Zhang, Yonglu Ma, Xuetao Zhang, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh et al.
A family of 2D transition metal carbides and nitrides known as MXenes has received increasing attention since the discovery of Ti 3 C 2 in 2011. To date, about 30 different MXenes with well‐defined structures and properties have been synthesized, and many more are theoretically predicted to exist. D...
Lianlin Li, Hengxin Ruan, Che Liu, Ying Li et al.
Conventional microwave imagers usually require either time-consuming data acquisition, or complicated reconstruction algorithms for data post-processing, making them largely ineffective for complex in-situ sensing and monitoring. Here, we experimentally report a real-time digital-metasurface imager ...
Md Abdus Subhan, Satya Siva Kishan Yalamarty, Nina Filipczak, Farzana Parveen et al.
Cancer causes the second-highest rate of death world-wide. A major shortcoming inherent in most of anticancer drugs is their lack of tumor selectivity. Nanodrugs for cancer therapy administered intravenously escape renal clearance, are unable to penetrate through tight endothelial junctions of norma...
Md. Nurul Islam, Tubai Ghosh, K. L. Chopra, H. N. Acharya