A silicone product, a lighting unit comprising the silicone product, and a method of manufacturing a silicone product are provided. The silicone product comprises polymeric material, luminescent material and filler particles. The polymeric material comprises a material of the group of polysiloxanes. The polymeric material being light transmitting. The luminescent material comprises particles which have at least in one dimension a size in the nanometer range. The luminescent material is configured to absorb light of a first spectral range and to convert a portion of the absorbed light into light of a second spectral range. The filler particles are of a light transmitting inert material. The filler particles are miscible with the luminescent material. The filler particles are provided in the polymeric material. The particles of luminescent material are distributed along a surface of the filler particles.

The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of blue-fluorescence emitting carbon dots (CDTs) from sub-bituminous tertiary high sulfur Indian coals. More particularly, the present invention relates to the production of characteristics carbon dots from low-quality Indian coals by an ultrasonic-assisted wet-chemical method. Also, the present invention provides a simple and environmentally benign method for fabrication of characteristics and size-controlled carbon dots.

Inefficient dissipation of heat limits the performance of electronic devices. Thermal interface materials (TIMs) can be used in electronic devices to dissipate heat more effectively and efficiently. Nanocomposites have been prepared using functionalized boron nitride nanosheets (BNNS). The incorporation of soft-ligand functionalized BNNS in a metal matrix was used to nanofabricate kinetically-trapped nanocomposites TIMs.

This invention relates to a thermoelectric material constituted of nanostructures and a thermoelectric element and an optical sensor including the same, as well as to a method for manufacturing a thermoelectric material constituted of nanostructures. An object of the present disclosure is to achieve better thermoelectric characteristics of the thermoelectric material containing nanoparticles. The thermoelectric material includes a first material having a band gap and a second material different from the first material. The thermoelectric material contains a plurality of nanoparticles distributed in a base material which is a mixture of the first material and the second material. A composition of the second material in the thermoelectric material is not lower than 0.01 atomic % and not higher than 2.0 atomic % of the thermoelectric material.

In some embodiments, the present invention provides amphiphilic nanosheets that comprise lamellar crystals with at least two regions: a first hydrophilic region and a second hydrophobic region. In some embodiments, the amphiphilic nanosheets of the present invention also comprise a plurality of functional groups that are appended to the lamellar crystals. In some embodiments the functional groups are hydrophobic functional groups that are appended to the second region of the lamellar crystals. In some embodiments, the lamellar crystals comprise -zirconium phosphates. Additional embodiments of the present invention pertain to methods of making the aforementioned amphiphilic nanosheets. Such methods generally comprise appending one or more functional groups to a stack of lamellar crystals; and exfoliating the stack of lamellar crystals for form the amphiphilic nanosheets.

A metal-nanostructure composite includes a nanostructure-metal matrix composite. The nanostructure-metal matrix composite includes a host metal and nanofiller dispersed in the grains of the metal. The nanofillers can include both one-dimensional nanostructures (e.g., nano-tubes, nano-rods, nano-pillars, etc.) and two-dimensional nanostructures (e.g., graphene, nano-foam, nano-mesh, etc.) to improve the radiation resistance and mechanical properties of the host metal. A method of manufacturing the metal-nanostructure composite includes obtaining carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and encapsulating the CNTs with metal particles. The method also includes consolidating the encapsulated CNTs and forming (e.g., via extrusion) the consolidated metal/CNTs to produce the metal-nanostructure composite.

A quantum dot-resin nanocomposite including a nanoparticle including a curable resin and a plurality of quantum dots contacting the nanoparticle. Also, a method of preparing the nanocomposite, and a molded article including the nanocomposite.

Disclosed are a manufacture method of quantum dots printing ink and manufactured quantum dots printing ink manufactured with the manufacture method. In the manufacture method, by mixing the first solvent and the second solvent, the viscosity of the quantum dots printing ink is adjusted to be in a predetermined range. Then, by mixing the third solvent with the first and second solvent, the surface tension thereof is adjusted to be in a predetermined range while maintaining the viscosity to be in the predetermined range. Furthermore, by adding the fourth solvent in the quantum dots printing ink, the vapor pressure is adjusted to be in a reasonable range. With mixture of kinds of solvents, the quantum dots printing ink of which the performance indicators, the viscosity, the surface tension, the dry condition are suitable for jet ink printing can be formulated to avoid adding the surfactant in the ink.

A method of synthesizing two-dimensional (2D) nanoparticles of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) material utilises a molecular cluster compound. The method allows a high degree of control over the shape, size and composition of the 2D TMDC nanoparticles, and may be used to produce material with uniform properties in large quantities.

The present invention includes a simple, scalable and solventless method of dispersing graphene into polymers, thereby providing a method of large-scale production of graphene-polymer composites. The composite powder can then be processed using the existing techniques such as extrusion, injection molding, and hot-pressing to produce a composites of useful shapes and sizes while keeping the advantages imparted by graphene. Composites produced require less graphene filler and are more efficient than currently used methods and is not sensitive to the host used, such composites can have broad applications depending on the host's properties.