Weixia Zhang、Sudarat Lee、Kelly McNear 等 11 位作者2014-02-14Scientific Reports
Corrosion of metal in biomedical devices could cause serious health problems to patients. Currently ceramics coating materials used in metal implants can reduce corrosion to some extent with limitations. Here we proposed graphene as a biocompatible protective film for metal potentially for biomedical application. We c…
Bone Tissue Engineering MaterialsNanoparticles: synthesis and applicationsGraphene and Nanomaterials Applications
Yawei Li、Qiang Sun2014-02-14Scientific Reports
Two-dimensional organometallic sheets containing regularly and separately distributed transition atoms (TMs) have received tremendous attentions due to their flexibility in synthesis, well-defined geometry and the promising applications in hydrogen storage, electronic circuits, quantum Hall effect, and spintronics. He…
Electrocatalysts for Energy ConversionCatalytic Processes in Materials ScienceCovalent Organic Framework Applications
Yuya Egawa、Ryotaro Miki、Toshinobu Seki2014-02-14Materials
In association with increasing diabetes prevalence, it is desirable to develop new glucose sensing systems with low cost, ease of use, high stability and good portability. Boronic acid is one of the potential candidates for a future alternative to enzyme-based glucose sensors. Boronic acid derivatives have been widely…
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniquesMolecular Sensors and Ion DetectionLuminescence and Fluorescent Materials
Sassan Aflaki、Pouria Hajikarimi、Ellie H. Fini 等 4 位作者2014-02-14Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
This paper examines effects of a new biobased modifier, “biobinder,” on low-temperature properties of asphalt binder and compares the results with those of conventional modifiers: crumb rubber, Gilsonite, styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS), and polyphosphoric acid (PPA). Low-temperature characteristics of modified and no…
Asphalt Pavement Performance EvaluationNatural Fiber Reinforced CompositesInfrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
Yan Zhang、Yujing Zhang、Xinyu Xue 等 8 位作者2014-02-14Nanotechnology
A novel PVDF-PZT nanocomposite film has been proposed and used as a piezoseparator in self-charging power cells (SCPCs). The structure, composed of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and lead zirconate titanate (PZT), provides a high piezoelectric output, because PZT in this nanocomposite film can improve the piezopoten…
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsConducting polymers and applicationsInnovative Energy Harvesting Technologies
Daniel Niesner、Sebastian Otto、Volker Hermann 等 11 位作者2014-02-14Physical Review B
Time-resolved two-photon photoemission was used to study the electronic structure and dynamics at the surface of ${\text{SnSb}}_{2}$${\text{Te}}_{4}$, a $p$-type topological insulator. The Dirac point is found $0.32\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.03$ eV above the Fermi level. Electrons from the conduction band minimum a…
2D Materials and ApplicationsTopological Materials and PhenomenaPhotorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
Lawrence Tien Lin Lee、Jian He、Baohua Wang 等 8 位作者2014-02-14Scientific Reports
Due to the two-dimensional confinement of electrons, single- and few-layer MoSe₂ nanostructures exhibit unusual optical and electrical properties and have found wide applications in catalytic hydrogen evolution reaction, field effect transistor, electrochemical intercalation, and so on. Here we present a new applicati…
Advanced Photocatalysis TechniquesPerovskite Materials and ApplicationsQuantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
Xiaohui Fu、Yinan Ma、Yong Shen 等 5 位作者2014-02-14Biomacromolecules
The oxidation-responsive behaviors of OEGylated poly-L-cysteine homopolypeptides, that is, poly(L-EG(x)MA-C)n, were investigated. These poly-L-cysteine derivatives adopted mixed conformation in water, in which the β-sheet accounted for a significant proportion. Upon oxidation, the thioethers in polypeptide side chains…
Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterizationbiodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesDendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers
W. Frederik Rurup、Joost Snijder、Melissa S. T. Koay 等 5 位作者2014-02-14Journal of the American Chemical Society
Nature uses bottom-up approaches for the controlled assembly of highly ordered hierarchical structures with defined functionality, such as organelles, molecular motors, and transmembrane pumps. The field of bionanotechnology draws inspiration from nature by utilizing biomolecular building blocks such as DNA, proteins,…
Glycosylation and Glycoproteins ResearchBacteriophages and microbial interactionsSupramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
Dong Pan、Mengqi Fu、Xuezhe Yu 等 11 位作者2014-02-14Nano Letters
Here we report the growth of phase-pure InAs nanowires on Si (111) substrates by molecular-beam epitaxy using Ag catalysts. A conventional one-step catalyst annealing process is found to give rise to InAs nanowires with diameters ranging from 4.5 to 81 nm due to the varying sizes of the Ag droplets, which reveal stron…
Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit DesignNanowire Synthesis and ApplicationsElectronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Sabrina V. Kirner、Michael Sekita、Dirk M. Guldi2014-02-14Advanced Materials
The past 25 years have served as a test bed for exploring the chemistry and physics, in general, and the electron transfer chemistry, in particular, of low-dimensional carbon. Nevertheless, the new realm started with the advent of fullerenes, followed in chronological order by carbon nanotubes, and, more recently, by…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesFullerene Chemistry and ApplicationsSynthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
Julie Désarnaud、Hannelore Derluyn、Jan Carmeliet 等 5 位作者2014-02-14The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
We study the spontaneous nucleation and growth of sodium chloride crystals induced by controlled evaporation in confined geometries (microcapillaries) spanning several orders of magnitude in volume. In all experiments, the nucleation happens reproducibly at a very high supersaturation S ∼ 1.6 and is independent of the…
Photonic Crystals and ApplicationsCalcium Carbonate Crystallization and InhibitionBuilding materials and conservation
Carlo Bonchi、Francesco Imperi、Fabrizia Minandri 等 5 位作者2014-02-14BioFactors
While the occurrence and spread of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens is vanishing current anti-infective therapies, the antibiotic discovery pipeline is drying up. In the last years, the repurposing of existing drugs for new clinical applications has become a major research area in drug discovery, also in t…
Nanoparticles: synthesis and applicationsAntibiotic Resistance in BacteriaBacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
Nelson Y. Dzade、Alberto Roldán、Nora H. de Leeuw2014-02-14Minerals
The reactivity of mineral surfaces in the fundamental processes of adsorption, dissolution or growth, and electron transfer is directly tied to their atomic structure. However, unraveling the relationship between the atomic surface structure and other physical and chemical properties of complex metal oxides is challen…
Iron oxide chemistry and applicationsCopper-based nanomaterials and applicationsSurface Chemistry and Catalysis
Hongyan Liu、Ju Cheng、Fengjuan Chen 等 7 位作者2014-02-14ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
In bone tissue engineering, it is imperative to design multifunctional biomaterials that can induce and assemble bonelike apatite that is close to natural bone. In this study, graphene oxide (GO) was functionalized by carrageenan. The resulting GO-carrageenan (GO-Car) composite was further used as a substrate for biom…
Bone Tissue Engineering Materialsbiodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesGraphene and Nanomaterials Applications
Ramesh Chitrakar、Yoji Makita、Kenta Ooi 等 4 位作者2014-02-14Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Iron-doped lithium manganese oxides Li 1.33 Fe x Mn 1.67– x O 4 ( x = 0.15, 0.30, and 0.40) were prepared by calcination of carbonates of Li, Mn, and nitrate of Fe in air at 350, 400, 450, 550, and 650 °C. The calcined samples, characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and chemical analysis, were spinels. The protonate…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsExtraction and Separation ProcessesLayered Double Hydroxides Synthesis and Applications
Gaëlle Carré、Erwann Hamon、Saïd Ennahar 等 10 位作者2014-02-14Applied and Environmental Microbiology
This study investigates the mechanisms of UV-A (315 to 400 nm) photocatalysis with titanium dioxide (TiO2) applied to the degradation of Escherichia coli and their effects on two key cellular components: lipids and proteins. The impact of TiO2 photocatalysis on E. coli survival was monitored by counting on agar plate…
Electrochemical sensors and biosensorsPharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental ImpactsAdvanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
Robert Steyrleuthner、Riccardo Di Pietro、Brian A. Collins 等 12 位作者2014-02-14Journal of the American Chemical Society
We investigated the correlation between the polymer backbone structural regularity and the charge transport properties of poly{[N,N'-bis(2-octyldodecyl)-1,4,5,8-naphthalenediimide-2,6-diyl]-alt-5,5'-(2,2'-bithiophene)} [P(NDI2OD-T2)], a widely studied semiconducting polymer exhibiting high electron mobility and an unc…
Organic Electronics and PhotovoltaicsOrganic Light-Emitting Diodes ResearchConducting polymers and applications
Yan‐Feng Yue、Andrew Binder、Bingkun Guo 等 7 位作者2014-02-14Angewandte Chemie International Edition
The synthesis of mesoporous Prussian blue analogues through a template-free methodology and the application of these mesoporous materials as high-performance cathode materials in sodium-ion batteries is presented. Crystalline mesostructures were produced through a synergistically coupled nanocrystal formation and aggr…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsSupercapacitor Materials and FabricationAdvanced Battery Materials and Technologies
Bingjie Cai、Shuting Wang、Le Huang 等 6 位作者2014-02-14ACS Nano
A reduced graphene oxide (R-GO)-based field-effect transistor (FET) biosensor used for ultrasensitive label-free detection of DNA via peptide nucleic acid (PNA)-DNA hybridization is reported. In this work, R-GO was prepared by reduction of GO with hydrazine, and the FET biosensor was fabricated by drop-casting the R-G…
Graphene research and applicationsAdvanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniquesMolecular Junctions and Nanostructures