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Implant-associated fibrotic capsule formation presents a major challenge for the development of long-term drug release microspheres and implantable sensors. Since material properties have been shown to affect in vitro cellular responses and also to influence short-term in vivo tissue responses, we have thus assumed th…
A wide range of analytes adsorb irreversibly to the surfaces of single walled carbon nanotube electronic networks typically used as sensors or thin-film transistors, although to date, the mechanism is not understood. Using thionyl chloride as a model electron-withdrawing adsorbate, we show that reversible adsorption s…
Electron tomography and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy were used to characterize the unique three-dimensional structures of helical or zigzagged GaN, ZnGa2O4, and Zn2SnO4 nanowires. The GaN nanowires adopt a helical structure that consists of six equivalent <011> growth directions with the axial [000…
The surface composition and surface free energy properties of two types of amphiphilic and semicrystalline diblock copolymers consisting of poly(L-lactic acid) coupled to (methoxy poly(ethylene glycol) (PLLA-MePEG) having differing block lengths of PEG were investigated by using static and dynamic contact angle measur…
ZnO nanowires (NWs) are grown on a bulk copper half-transmission electron microscopy grid by chemical vapor deposition in a high temperature tube furnace. Photoluminescence (PL) microscopy revealed band gap emission at 380 nm and a more intense visible emission around 520 nm due to defect states in these NWs. High-res…
Silicas with ordered arrays of closed (isolated) spherical mesopores of diameters on the order of 10 nm were synthesized using block-copolymer templating followed by a thermally induced pore closure process, which is described herein for the first time. Closed-pore materials with face-centered cubic structure and body…
Macro- and crystalline structure, as well as chemical composition of fibers related to various types and sorts of Israeli cottons, both white and naturally colored, were investigated. The differences in structural parameters and chemical compositions of the cotton fibers were eval-uated. Samples of cotton of the “Pima…
Nanocrystalline spinel nickel ferrite and zinc aluminate particles (6−20 nm) can be prepared by a recently developed continuous flow method that combines microwave heating and in situ ultrasonic nozzle spray mixing. The preparations were carried out at ambient pressure (1 atm), microwave power (0−600 W), and ultrasoni…
We report a novel type of inorganic membranelike structure formed by the self-assembly of hydrophilic polyoxometalate macroanions. Such nanoscaled, water-soluble macroions tend to form stable, uniform, single-layer “blackberry” structures (20−1000 nm in size) in dilute solutions via noncovalent bond interactions. Two…
The fabrication of highly ordered, defect-free nanostructures is a key challenge in nanotechnology. Bottom-up fabrication approaches require nanobuilding blocks of precisely defined size and shape. In this work we propose a simple approach to obtain one type of building block--soft patchy nanoparticles--suggested by a…
A kind of carbon nanocrystals with body-centered cubic (bcc) structure has been synthesized by using a pulsed-laser induced liquid–solid interface reaction (PLIIR). Scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectra, transmission electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry, selected area electronic diffract…
The compressive modulus of dense vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays synthesized by chemical vapor deposition was investigated using an optically probed precision-loading platform. For CNT arrays with heights ranging from 15 to 500 microm, the moduli were measured to be about 0.25 MPa and were…
A series of symmetrical cationic phthalocyanines (Pcs) with either Zn(II) or Si(IV) metal ions and two bulky axial ligands on the silicon complexes was synthesized in high yields. The photophysical (absorption, emission, fluorescence, and singlet oxygen quantum yields) and cellular (uptake, toxicity, and subcellular l…
The synthesis of molecularly defined epsilon-caprolactone oligomers and polymers up to the 64-mer, via an exponential growth strategy, is described. By careful selection of orthogonal protecting groups, t-butyldimethylsilyl (TBDMS) ether for the hydroxyl group and benzyl (Bn) ester for the carboxylic acid group, a hig…
We perform density functional calculations on one-dimensional zigzag edge graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) of different widths, with and without edge doping including semilocal exchange correlations. Our study reveals that, although the ground state of edge-passivated (with hydrogen) ZGNRs prefers to be anti-ferromagnetic…
We report that a single dipeptide ( l -Phe- l -Phe, FF), which is probably one of the smallest peptide gelators, can self-assemble into long nanofibrils in organic solvents and entangle further to form gels. The obtained FF gels are responsive to temperature, and the FF sol–gel process is thermoreversible. The formati…
Polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) fibers were prepared by electrospinning from dimethyl formamide (DMF) solutions. The effects of the electrospinning processing conditions on the formation of the alpha and beta phases of PVDF were studied using infrared spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. We have shown…
The development of quantitative, highly sensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrates requires control over size, shape, and position of metal nanoparticles. Despite the fact that SERS has gained the reputation as an information-rich spectroscopy for detection of many classes of analytes, in some iso…
We study the light scattering and surface plasmon resonances of Au nanorods that are commonly used as optical nanoantennas in analogy to dipole radio antennas for chemical and biodetection field-enhanced spectroscopies and scanned-probe microscopies. With the use of the boundary element method, we calculate the nanoro…
Low-pressure chemical vapor deposition allows one to grow high structural quality monolayer graphene on Ir(111). Using scanning tunneling microscopy, we show that graphene prepared this way exhibits remarkably large-scale continuity of its carbon rows over terraces and step edges. The graphene layer contains only a ve…