Karunagaran B、Nimma Elizabeth R、Gnana kumar G 等 4 位作者2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract Spherical shaped, nanometer to micro meter sized silica particles were prepared in a homogeneous nature by spray technique. Silver nanoparticles were produced over the surface of the silica grains in a harmonized manner. The size of silver and silica particles was effectively controlled by the precursors and…
Gordonov Simon、Busto Gabrielle、Moghe Prabhas 等 5 位作者2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract As the field of nanotechnology continues to grow, evaluating the cytotoxicity of nanoparticles is important in furthering their application within biomedicine. Here, we report the synthesis, characterization, and cytotoxicity of nanoparticles of different morphologies of yttrium oxide, a promising material fo…
Fang XS、Tang CC、Bando Y 等 7 位作者2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract The field emission properties of SnO2nanowires fabricated by chemical vapor deposition with metallic catalyst-assistance were investigated. For the as-fabricated SnO2nanowires, the turn-on and threshold field were 4.03 and 5.4 V/μm, respectively. Considerable enhancement of field emission of SnO2nanowires was…
Sebastian Chevalier, Pitor Juzon, Kazimierz Przybylski and Jean-Pierre Larpin2009-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Fe3Al intermetallics (Fe3Al, Fe3Al-Zr, Fe3Al-Zr,Mo and Fe3Al-Zr,Mo,Nb) were oxidized at 950 °C in dry and humid (11 vol% water) synthetic air. Thermogravimetric measurements showed that the oxidation rates of the tested intermetallics were lower in humid air than in dry air (especially for Fe3Al-Zr,Mo and Fe3Al-Zr,Mo,…
Guiqiang Liu, Yan Chen and Zhiqing Ye2009-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Sandwich structures, constructed from a planar defect of rhodamine-B (RhB)-doped titania (TiO2) and two photonic crystals, were synthesized via the self-assembly method combined with spin-coating. The modification of the spontaneous emission of RhB molecules in such structures was investigated experimentally. The spon…
San-Xiang Tan, Shao-Zao Tan, Jing-Xing Chen, Ying-Liang Liu and Ding-Sheng Yuan2009-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
An environment-friendly hydrothermal method was used to prepare TiO2@C core–shell composite using TiO2 as core and sucrose as carbon source. TiO2@C served as a support for the immobilization of Ag by impregnation in silver nitrate aqueous solution. The chemical structures and morphologies of TiO2@C and TiO2@C/Ag compo…
Vladimir D Blank, Boris A Kulnitskiy, Igor A Perezhogin, Yuriy L Alshevskiy and Nikita V Kazennov2009-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
The effect of an electron beam on nanoparticles of two Fe carbide catalysts inside a carbon nanofiber was investigated in a transmission electron microscope. Electron beam exposure does not result in significant changes for cementite (θ-Fe3C). However, for Hägg carbide nanoparticles (χ-Fe5C2), explosive decay is obser…
Lu Hongsong、He Xianhui、Wang Xiaoping 等 7 位作者2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract The activation of T lymphocytes plays a very important role in T-cell-mediated immune response. Though there are many related literatures, the changes of membrane surface nanostructures and adhesion property of T lymphocytes at different activation stages have not been reported yet. However, these investigati…
Giannazzo F、Roccaforte F、Raineri V 等 5 位作者2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract Dynamic scaling behavior has been observed during the room-temperature growth of sputtered Au films on SiO2using the atomic force microscopy technique. By the analyses of the dependence of the roughness, σ, of the surface roughness power,P(f), and of the correlation length,ξ, on the film thickness,h, the roug…
Lee H、Rajagopalan R、Foley HC 等 5 位作者2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract Glassy carbon is a disordered, nanoporous form of carbon with superior thermal and chemical stability in extreme environments. Freestanding glassy carbon specimens with 4–6 nm thickness and 0.5 nm average pore size were synthesized and fabricated from polyfurfuryl alcohol precursors. Elastic properties of the…
Zhang Zhaoming、Bai Hongjuan、Guo Yu 等 4 位作者2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract Size-controlled cadmium sulfide nanoparticles were successfully synthesized by immobilizedRhodobacter sphaeroidesin the study. The dynamic process that Cd2+was transported from solution into cell by livingR. sphaeroideswas characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Culture time, as an important…
Alonso-González P、González L、Fuster D 等 5 位作者2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract In this work, we study the top surface localization of InAs quantum dots once capped by a GaAs layer grown by molecular beam epitaxy. At the used growth conditions, the underneath nanostructures are revealed at the top surface as mounding features that match their density with independence of the cap layer th…
Chen Dafeng、Du Hejun、Tay CheeYong2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract We report a microfluidic device for rapid and efficient concentration of micro/nanoparticles with direct current dielectrophoresis (DC DEP). The concentrator is composed of a series of microchannels constructed with PDMS-insulating microstructures for efficiently focusing the electric field in the flow direct…
Ma Zhanfang、Ding Teng2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract Bioconjugates made up of an enzyme and gold nanorods (GNRs) were fabricated by electrostatic interactions (layer-by-layer method, LBL) between anionic glucose oxidase (GOD) and positively charged GNRs. The assembled processes were monitored by UV–Vis spectra, zeta potential measurements, and transmission elec…
Hou Zhenqing、Wei Heng、WANG QIAN 等 8 位作者2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract The classical utilized double emulsion solvent diffusion technique for encapsulating water soluble Mitomycin C (MMC) in PLA nanoparticles suffers from low encapsulation efficiency because of the drug rapid partitioning to the external aqueous phase. In this paper, MMC loaded PLA nanoparticles were prepared by…
Cong Chunxiao、Junus WilliamChandra、Shen Zexiang 等 4 位作者2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract We report a low-cost and simple method for fabrication of nonspherical colloidal lithographic nanopatterns with a long-range order by preheating and oxygen reactive ion etching of monolayer and double-layer polystyrene spheres. This strategy allows excellent control of size and morphology of the colloidal par…
Alexandrou Ioannis、Othonos Andreas、Lioudakis Emmanouil2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract Nowadays, organic solar cells have the interest of engineers for manufacturing flexible and low cost devices. The considerable progress of this nanotechnology area presents the possibility of investigating new effects from a fundamental science point of view. In this letter we highlight the influence of the c…
Yang Xiaoming、Wei Yuyan、Li Liang 等 6 位作者2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract Polpyrrole (PPy)/Ag nanocomposites were successfully synthesized at the interface of water and ionic liquid by one-step UV-induced polymerization. Highly dispersed PPy/Ag nanoparticles were obtained by controlling the experimental conditions. The results of Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffr…
Yu Dexin、Ma Chunhong、Wang Shaojie 等 6 位作者2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract Accurate diagnosis in early stage is vital for the treatment of Hepatocellular carcinoma. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential of poly lactic acid–polyethylene glycol/gadolinium–diethylenetriamine-pentaacetic acid (PLA–PEG/Gd–DTPA) nanocomplexes using as biocompatible molecular magnetic reso…
Sethi Ruchi、Kumar Lokendra、Sharma Prashant 等 4 位作者2009-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract Highly luminescent Ag-ion-doped Cd1−xZnxS (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) alloy nanocrystals were successfully synthesized by a novel wet chemical precipitation method. Influence of dopant concentration and the Zn/Cd stoichiometric variations in doped alloy nanocrystals have been investigated. The samples were characterized by X…