1.  Ma PC*, Liu JW, Gao SL, Mader E. Development of functional glass fibers using nanocomposites coating: A comparative study. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing 2013, 44, 16-22.

■ Glass fibers with nanocomposite coating containing CNTs and graphene were developed, and their mechanical, electrical and barrier properties were evaluated. A significant decrease in electrical resistance of fibers was noticed with coating containing graphene. The dimension of nanoparticles played an important role in governing the properties of glass fibers: the tube-like CNTs in coating can fill the micro-cracks on fiber surface together with polymer matrix, resulting in the highest tensile strength of fibers with such kind of coating among different fibers.

2.  Zheng QB, Shi L, Ma PC, Xue Q, Li J, Tang Z, Yang J*. Structure control of ultra-large graphene oxide sheets by Langmuir-Blodgett method. RSC Advances, 2013, 3, 4680-91.

■ An efficient method to fabricate UL-GO with flat, rippled, standing collapsed, folded, over folded and highly curved structures was reported, by the L–B method. MD simulations were performed to understand the formation mechanisms of obtained distinct structures.