US Senator Kay Hagan Visits Bradford Research Group

United States Senator, Kay Hagan, visited the Bradford Research Group lab during her recent visit to the NC State Wilson College of Textiles.

Copper Encapsulated Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays

A new procedure is described for the fabrication of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs) which are decorated, and even completely encapsulated by a dense network of copper nanoparticles. The process involves the conformal deposition of pyrolytic carbon (Py-C),… Read More

Kun Fu’s Paper Wins NCSU AIF Best Paper Award

Kun Fu’s paper titled “Aligned Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Sheets: A Novel Nano-architecture for Flexible Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes”, recently published in the journal, Advanced Materials, won the NCSU Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF) Best Paper Award for  2013. The NCSU AIF… Read More

Aligned Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Sheets: A Novel Nano-architecture for Flexible Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes

In the pursuit of high performance lithium ion batteries (LIBs), significant effort has been expended to explore high performance cathode and anode materials. Silicon has the greatest lithium storage capacity per unit mass, and is therefore one of… Read More