Ganguly Anirban、Bhowmick Anil2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractSulfonated styrene-(ethylene-butylene)-styrene triblock copolymer (SSEBS) was synthesized by reaction of acetyl sulfate with SEBS. SSESB-clay nanocomposites were then prepared from hydrophilic Na-montmorillonite (MT) and organically (quaternary amine) modified hydrophobic nanoclay (OMT) at very low loading. SE…
Iis Sopyan2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
The characteristics of the UV illumination-assisted degradation of gaseous acetaldehyde, hydrogen sulfide, and ammonia on highly active nanostructured-anatase and rutile films were investigated. It was found that the anatase film showed a higher photocatalytic activity than the counterpart did, however, the magnitude…
Yasuo Higashi et al2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
A new ultraprecise profiler has been developed to measure, for example, asymmetric and aspheric profiles. The principle of our measuring method is that the normal vector at each point on the surface is determined by making the incident light beam on the mirror surface and the reflected beam at that point of coincident…
Katsuyuki Okada2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Nanocrystalline diamond films have attracted considerable attention because they have a low coefficient of friction and a low electron emission threshold voltage. In this paper, the author reviews the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PE-CVD) of nanocrystalline diamond and mainly focuses on the growth of nano…
Dev Kumar Chatterjee and Yong Zhang2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Many immunotherapeutic strategies developed in recent years involve the targeting of immune cells to tumors. In this study, we synthesized and characterized modified fluorescent nanoparticles as a targeting and delivery system, by conjugating both tumor targeting agent and chemokines to the nanoparticles, to attract i…
Luykx A、Valdivia P、Hullavarad SS 等 5 位作者2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractThe ZnO nanostructures consisting of micro spheres in a network of nano wires were synthesized by direct vapor phase method. X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy measurements were carried out to understand the chemical nature of the sample. ZnO nanostructures exhibited band edge luminescence at 383 nm. The nanostr…
Castellano Gloria、Torrens Francisco2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractThe possibility of the existence of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in organic solvents in the form of clusters is discussed. A theory is developed based on abundletmodel for clusters describing the distribution function of clusters by size. The phenomena have a unified explanation in the framework of the…
Kazuya Terabe, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Changhao Liang and Masakazu Aono2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
The development of nanometer-scale devices operating under a new principle that could overcome the limitations of current semiconductor devices has attracted interest in recent years. We propose that nanoionic devices that operate by controlling the local transport of ions are promising in this regard. It is possible…
Fojtik A、Zdansky K、Kacerovsky P 等 5 位作者2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractPd nanoparticles were prepared with reverse micelles of water/AOT/isooctane solution and deposited onto silicon or InP substrates by electrophoresis. A large change of capacitance-voltage characteristics of mercury contacts on a semiconductor was found after Pd deposition. This change could be modified when th…
Dukkipati VenkatRam、Pang Stella、Kim JiHoon 等 4 位作者2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractSingle-molecule studies of the interactions of DNA and proteins are important in a variety of biological or biotechnology processes ranging from the protein’s search for its DNA target site, DNA replication, transcription, or repair, and genome sequencing. A critical requirement for single-molecule studies is…
Koichi Higashimine et al2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Nano-composites of tin and tin dioxide particles were synthesized on carbon nanotubes by the single-atoms-to-clusters (SAC) method, and their structures were investigated by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. By changing the heat-treatment temperature during the SAC process, two different types of sampl…
Strom NW、Wang Zh、Lee JH 等 6 位作者2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractThe evolution of InAs quantum dot (QD) formation is studied on GaAs ring-like nanostructures fabricated by droplet homo-epitaxy. This growth mode, exclusively performed by a hybrid approach of droplet homo-epitaxy and Stransky-Krastanor (S-K) based QD self-assembly, enables one to form new QD morphologies that…
Yan Aixia、Lin Ying、Chen Yu 等 5 位作者2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
Abstract Promising alternatives for solar energy utilization are thin film technologies involving various new materials. This contribution describes an easy and inexpensive synthetic method that can be used to prepare soluble nanoscale triphenyl phosphine-coordinated CIGS (TPP-CIGS) photoactive functional materials. T…
Pumera Martin2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractElectrochemical properties of double wall carbon nanotubes (DWNT) were assessed and compared to their single wall (SWNT) counterparts. The double and single wall carbon nanotube materials were characterized by Raman spectroscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy and electrochemistry. The electroch…
Ciftja Orion2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractWe present mathematical transformations which allow us to calculate the spin dynamics of an ultra-small nanoscale molecular magnet consisting of a dimer system of classical (high) Heisenberg spins. We derive exact analytic expressions (in integral form) for the time-dependent spin autocorrelation function and…
Li Shu-Shen、Xia Jian-Bai2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractThe electronic structure and binding energy of a hydrogenic acceptor impurity in 2, 1, and 0-dimensional semiconductor nano-structures (i.e. quantum well (QW), quantum well wire (QWW), and quantum dot (QD)) are studied in the framework of effective-mass envelope-function theory. The results show that (1) the e…
Dedova Tatjana、Volobujeva Olga、Klauson Jelena 等 5 位作者2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractIn this work we present the results on formation of ZnO nanorods prepared by spray of aqueous solutions containing ZnCl2and thiocarbamide (tu) at different molar ratios. It has been observed that addition of thiocarbamide into the spray solution has great impact on the size, shape and phase composition of the…
Vankar Vasant、Srivastava SanjayKumar、Kumar Vikram2007-01-01Nanoscale Research Letters
AbstractRandomly oriented short and low density conical carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were prepared on Si substrates by tubular microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition process at relatively low temperature (350–550 °C) by judiciously controlling the microwave power and growth time in C2H2 + NH3gas composition an…
Piyasak Chaumpluk et al2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Combinations of PCR-based amplification platform using 5' thiolated and biotinylated specific primers, S1 nuclease–PCR products treatment, ferrocene–streptavidin (Fc–Stv)–magnetic binding for DNA accumulation, and screen printed gold electrode for the DNA allocation, were applied to Hoechst 33258-induced DNA aggregati…
Takamasa Ishigaki and Ji-Guang Li2007-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
A method of synthesizing functional nanostructured powders through reactive thermal plasma processing has been developed. The synthesis of nanosized titanium oxide powders was performed by the oxidation of solid and liquid precursors. Quench gases, either injected from the shoulder of the reactor or injected counter t…