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Research

Carbon at the nanoscale, built into devices that store energy.

PhD thesis · UCL · 2018

Carbon nano onions for the development of supercapacitors

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London

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A supercapacitor stores energy like a battery but charges in seconds. Nima's PhD looked at tiny balls of carbon, called carbon nano-onions, as the material that holds the charge.

Publications on Google Scholar · Patents that grew from this work

Publications

Papers and thesis

2023
The conversion of radiation energy to electric current: the nano diamond battery
Abdelbaset, M., Pepper, M. and Golsharifi, N. International Journal of Organizational Innovation, 15(3), 1–10.
2019
From the development of methods for fitting photoemission spectra to their practical applications: bridging the gap
Bravo-Sanchez, M. et al. Journal of Surface Analysis, 26(2), 168–169.
2018
Carbon nano onions for the development of supercapacitors
Golsharifi, N. PhD thesis, University College London.
2013
Electronic properties of graphene–single crystal diamond heterostructures
Zhao, F. et al. Journal of Applied Physics, 114(5), 053709.

Research talks

Presented at international conferences

2012
Presentation at the International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials, Granada, September 2012.
2013
Talk on carbon nano-onions for supercapacitor applications, with R. B. Jackman, XXII International Materials Research Congress, Cancún, August 2013.
2013
Presentation at the Hasselt Diamond Workshop (SBDD XVIII), Hasselt, Belgium, February to March 2013.
2014
Regular talk on nanodiamond-converted carbon nano-onions for supercapacitors, XXIII International Materials Research Congress, Cancún, August 2014.
2018
Oral presentation, 2018 MRS Spring Meeting, Phoenix, April 2018: organic activation, functionalisation and characterisation of carbon nano-onions for supercapacitor electrodes.