Abstract: Provided are compositions including a direct interface between a biological tissue and a crystalline material, wherein the crystalline material has a crystallization temperature that exceeds the temperature at which the biological tissue incurs thermal damage. Also provided are methods for producing said compositions.

Abstract: Heat-transfer fluids and lubricating fluids comprising deaggregated diamond nanoparticles are described herein. Also described are composites comprising deaggregated diamond nanoparticles, and methods of making such composites. Method of using deaggregated diamond nanoparticles, for example, to improve the properties of materials such as thermal conductivity and lubricity are also disclosed.

Abstract: Provided are compositions including a direct interface between a biological tissue and a crystalline material, wherein the crystalline material has a crystallization temperature that exceeds the temperature at which the biological tissue incurs thermal damage. Also provided are methods for producing said compositions. The ability to apply crystalline materials to biological tissues has wide applicability, e.g., with cyborg applications. Extensive challenges exist, however, in applying crystalline materials to biological tissue substrates.

Abstract: Heat-transfer fluids and lubricating fluids comprising deaggregated diamond nanoparticles are described herein. Also described are composites comprising deaggregated diamond nanoparticles, and methods of making such composites. Method of using deaggregated diamond nanoparticles, for example, to improve the properties of materials such as thermal conductivity and lubricity are also disclosed.

Abstract: Heat-transfer fluids and lubricating fluids comprising deaggregated diamond nanoparticles are described herein. Also described are composites comprising deaggregated diamond nanoparticles, and methods of making such composites. Method of using deaggregated diamond nanoparticles, for example, to improve the properties of materials such as thermal conductivity and lubricity are also disclosed.

Abstract: Composites comprising at least one graphite-carbon nanofiber (GCNF) and a polymer phase covalently linked to a surface thereof.

Abstract: Composites comprising at least one graphite-carbon nanofiber (GCNF) and a polymer phase covalently linked to a surface thereof.

Abstract: A composite comprising at least one diamond/polymer brush and a method of making the composite comprising covalently bonding at least one polymer to said diamond surface.

Abstract: Heat-transfer fluids and lubricating fluids comprising deaggregated diamond nanoparticles are described herein. Also described are composites comprising deaggregated diamond nanoparticles, and methods of making such composites. Method of using deaggregated diamond nanoparticles, for example, to improve the properties of materials such as thermal conductivity and lubricity are also disclosed.

Abstract: A carbon-based composition comprising graphite carbon nano-fibers intercalated with a metal useful as a thermionic electron emission material.

Abstract: A composite comprising at least one diamond/polymer brush and a method of making the composite comprising covalently bonding at least one polymer to said diamond surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for preparing polymetallic precursors and for preparing improved nanocomposites formed from such precursors which are useful in fuel cell catalyst compositions. The nanocomposites include a support and a plurality of polymetallic nanoparticles with a selected metal atomic ratio. The metals in the polymetallic precursors have a stoichiometric ratio which is approximately equal to the selected atomic ratio of metals in the nanoparticles such that stoichiometric control is provided for the resulting nanocomposite catalyst. Crystalline intermetallic or metal alloy nanoparticles form when a polymetallic precursor having a particular metal stoichiometry is contacted with a conductive support, and the precursor is thermally degraded on the support leading to retention of the metal core of the precursor on the support.

Abstract: The present invention relates to organometallic complexes which contain at least two metal atoms, or a metal atom and a proton, and at least one ligand representing a metallated unsaturated chelating six-membered ring system, where the metallation involves the formal replacement of a methine group by an organometallic complex.The compounds of the invention have utility as both homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts of hydrogenation, polymerization, isomerization, hydroformylation and metathetical exchange reactions.