State-of-the-art of polymer/nanowall nanocomposite: fundamental—to—leading-edge application

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Nanowall is unique nanostructure made up of graphene, carbon, polymer, or inorganic compounds. The graphene nanowall, carbon nanowall, polymer nanowall, zinc oxide nanowall, nickle oxide nanowall, molybdenum disulfide nanowall, and gold nanowall have been produced through chemical vapor deposition, solution growth, hydrothermal, and plasma/microwave assisted techniques. Due to its high surface area, structural, morphological, conducting, optical, catalytic, photovoltaic, energy density, and capacitance properties, nanowall nanofillers have expanded use for polymeric matrices. Polymers used with nanowalls, so far, are poly(dimethylsiloxane), polyacrylonitrile, polyacetylene, poly(azomethine), poly(methyl methacrylate), polyaniline, and other conducting polymers. Polymer/nanowall nanocomposites have employed for solar cells, energy harvesting devices, and sensors.

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KEYWORDS:

• Polymer
• nanocomposite
• nanowall
• graphene
• solar cell
• sensor

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Ayesha Kausar

Ayesha Kausar works for National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan. She previously worked for Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan and National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. She obtained her PhD from Quaid-i-Azam University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea. Dr. Kausar’s current research interests include the design, fabrication, characterization, and exploration of structure-property relationships and potential prospects of nanocomposites, polymeric nanocomposites, polymeric composites, polymeric nanoparticles, polymer dots, nanocarbon materials (graphene and derivatives, carbon nanotube, nanodiamond, graphene, carbon nano-onion, carbon nanocoil, carbon nanobelt, carbon nanodisk, carbon dot, and other nanocarbons), hybrid materials, eco-friendly materials, nanocomposite nanofibers, and nano-foam architectures. Consideration of morphological, mechanical, thermal, electrical, anti-corrosion, barrier, flame retardant, radiation shielding, biomedical, and other essential materials properties for aerospace, automotive, fuel cell membranes, Li-ion battery electrodes, electronics, sensors, solar cells, water treatment, gas separation, textiles, energy production and storage devices, biomaterials, and other technical relevance are among her notable research concerns.