Publications in 2008

Structural, electrical, and thermal behavior of graphite-polyaniline composites with increased crystallinity (January 20, 2008)
Shawn Bourdo, Zhongrui Li, Alexandru S. Biris, Fumiya Watanabe, Tito Viswanathan, Ioana Pavel.
Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 432-440.

On the dynamical ferromagnetic, quantum hall, and relativistic effects on the carbon nanotubes nucleation and growth mechanism (February 2008)
Reginald B. Little, Alexandru R. Biris, Dan Lupu, Yang Xu, Zhongrui Li, Enkeleda Dervishi, Alexandru S. Biris.
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 320, no. 3-4, pp. 540-547.

Comparative study on different carbon nanotube materials in terms of transparent conductive coatings (February 6, 2008)
Zhongrui Li, Hom R. Kandel, Enkeleda Dervishi, Viney Saini, Yang Xu, Alexandru R. Biris, Dan Lupu, Gregory Salamo, Alexandru S. Biris.
Langmuir, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 2655-2662.

Effects of powder velocity and contact materials on tribocharging of polymer powders for powder coating applications (March 10, 2008)
Steven Trigwell, Alexandru S. Biris, Robert A. Sims, Malay K. Mazumder.
Particulate Science and Technology, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 145-157.

Effect of hydrogen on the growth and morphology of single-wall carbon nanotubes synthesized on a Fe-Mo/MgO catalytic system (April 2008)
Alexandru R. Biris, Zhongrui Li, Enkeleda Dervishi, Dan Lupu, Yang Xu, Viney Saini, Fumiya Watanabe, Alexandru S. Biris.
Physics Letters A, vol. 372, no. 17, pp. 3051-3057.

High-quality double-walled carbon nanotubes grown by a cold-walled radio frequency chemical vapor deposition process (May 6, 2008)
Alexandru R. Biris, Dan Lupu, Alexander Gruneis, Paola Ayala, Mark H. Rummeli, Thomas Pichler, Zhongrui Li, Yang Xu, Ioan Misan, Enkeleda Dervishi, Alexandru S. Biris.
Chemical Materials, vol. 2008, no. 20, pp. 3466-3472.

CO2 enhanced carbon nanotube synthesis from pyrolysis of hydrocarbons (May 23, 2008)
Zhongrui Li, Yang Xu, Xiaodong Ma, Enkeleda Dervishi, Viney Saini, Alexandru R. Biris, Dan Lupu, Alexandru S. Biris.
Chemical Communications, vol. 2008, no. 28, pp. 3260-3262.

Temperature measurement of carbon nanotubes using infrared thermography (May 29, 2008)
Dorin Boldor, Nicholas M. Gerbo, William T. Monroe, Jason H. Palmer, Zhongrui Li, Alexandru S. Biris.
Chemical Materials, vol. 2008, no. 20, pp. 4011-4016.

Portable free-fall electrostatic separator for beneficiation of charged particulate materials (July 2008)
Divey Saini, Steven Trigwell, Praveen K. Srirama, Robert A. Sims, Rajesh Sharma , Alexandru S. Biris, Malay K. Mazumder.
Particulate Science and Technology, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 349-360.

Hydrogen storage in carbon-based nanostructured materials (July 23, 2008)
Alexandru R. Biris, Dan Lupu, Enkeleda Dervishi, Zhongrui Li, Viney Saini, Divey Saini, Steven Trigwell, Malay K. Mazumder, Rajesh Sharma, Alexandru S. Biris.
Particulate Science and Technology, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 297-305.

Micro-Raman spectroscopy analysis of catalyst morphology for carbon nanotubes synthesis (July 29, 2008)
Zhongrui Li, Reginald Little, Enkeleda Dervishi, Viney Saini,Yang Xu, Alexandru R. Biris, Dan Lupu, Steven Trigwell, Divey Saini, Alexandru S. Biris.
Chemical Physics, vol. 353, no. 1-3, pp. 25-31.

Effects of the Fe-Co interaction on the growth of multiwall carbon nanotubes (August 21, 2008)
Zhongrui Li, Enkeleda Dervishi, Xiadong Ma, Viney Saini, Alexandru S. Biris, Reginald Little, Alexandru R. Biris, Dan Lupu
Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 129, no. 7, online, PMID: 19044797.

High crystallinity multi wall carbon nanotubes synthesized by inductive heating CCVD (September 2008)
Alexandru R. Biris, Dan Lupu, Ioan Misan, Enkeleda Dervishi, Zhongrui Li, Yang Xu, Steven Trigwell, Alexandru S. Biris.
Journal of optoelectronics and advanced materials, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 2311-2315.

Multiwall carbon nanotubes synthesized by RF-CCVD on novel CaO supported catalysts (October 13, 2008)
Alexandru R. Biris, Dan Lupu, Enkeleda Dervishi, Zhongrui Li, Yang Xu, Steve Trigwell, Ioan Misan, Alexandru S. Biris.
Physics Letters A, vol. 372, no. 42, pp. 6416-6419.

Surface area and thermal stability effect of the MgO supported catalysts for the synthesis of carbon nanotubes (November 2008)
Yang Xu, Zhongrui Li, Enkeleda Dervishi, Viney Saini, Cui Jingbiao, Alexandru R. Biris, Dan Lupu, Alexandru S. Biris.
Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 18, no. 47, pp. 5738-5745.

Carbon nanotubes grown by RF heating and their morphological and structural properties (November 21, 2008)
Viney Saini, Alexandru S. Biris, Enkeleda Dervishi, Zhongrui Li, Alexandru R. Biris, Dan Lupu, Reginald B. Little, Steven Trigwell, Zia Rahman, Divey Saini.
Particulate Science and Technology, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 521-528.

SOCl2 enhanced photovoltaic conversion of single wall carbon nanotube/n-silicon heterojunctions (December 2008)
Zhongrui Li, Vasyl Pl. Kunets, Viney Saini, Yang Xu, Enkeleda Dervishi, Gregory J. Salamo, Alexandru R. Biris, Alexandru S. Biris.
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 93, no. 24, online, doi: 10.1063/1.3050465.