Functional nanostructures

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Editors: Dr. Fabian Pauly, Universität Konstanz, Prof. R. Jürgen Behm, Universität Ulm, Prof. Paul Leiderer, Universität Konstanz, Prof. Stephan Nussberger, Universität Stuttgart and Prof. Christina Wege, Universität Stuttgart
 

This Thematic Series presents the latest research results in functional nanostructures, covering the topics:
– electronic structure, charge and heat transport
– structure formation and self-organization, electrochemistry
– optical and magnetic properties
– biofunctional nanostructures and surfaces

See also the Thematic Series:
Physics, chemistry and biology of functional nanostructures III
Physics, chemistry and biology of functional nanostructures II
Physics, chemistry and biology of functional nanostructures

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Electrical characterization of single molecule and Langmuir–Blodgett monomolecular films of a pyridine-terminated oligo(phenylene-ethynylene) derivative

  • Henrry M. Osorio,
  • Santiago Martín,
  • María Carmen López,
  • Santiago Marqués-González,
  • Simon J. Higgins,
  • Richard J. Nichols,
  • Paul J. Low and
  • Pilar Cea

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1145–1157, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.116

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Published 11 May 2015

Enhancing the thermoelectric figure of merit in engineered graphene nanoribbons

  • Hatef Sadeghi,
  • Sara Sangtarash and
  • Colin J. Lambert

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1176–1182, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.119

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Published 18 May 2015

Can molecular projected density of states (PDOS) be systematically used in electronic conductance analysis?

  • Tonatiuh Rangel,
  • Gian-Marco Rignanese and
  • Valerio Olevano

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1247–1259, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.128

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Published 02 Jun 2015

Alternative types of molecule-decorated atomic chains in Au–CO–Au single-molecule junctions

  • Zoltán Balogh,
  • Péter Makk and
  • András Halbritter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1369–1376, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.141

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Published 19 Jun 2015

Electron and heat transport in porphyrin-based single-molecule transistors with electro-burnt graphene electrodes

  • Hatef Sadeghi,
  • Sara Sangtarash and
  • Colin J. Lambert

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1413–1420, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.146

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Published 26 Jun 2015

Enhanced fullerene–Au(111) coupling in (2√3 × 2√3)R30° superstructures with intermolecular interactions

  • Michael Paßens,
  • Rainer Waser and
  • Silvia Karthäuser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1421–1431, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.147

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Published 29 Jun 2015

Electrical properties and mechanical stability of anchoring groups for single-molecule electronics

  • Riccardo Frisenda,
  • Simge Tarkuç,
  • Elena Galán,
  • Mickael L. Perrin,
  • Rienk Eelkema,
  • Ferdinand C. Grozema and
  • Herre S. J. van der Zant

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1558–1567, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.159

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Published 17 Jul 2015

Simple and efficient way of speeding up transmission calculations with k-point sampling

  • Jesper Toft Falkenberg and
  • Mads Brandbyge

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1603–1608, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.164

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Published 24 Jul 2015

Conductance through single biphenyl molecules: symmetric and asymmetric coupling to electrodes

  • Karthiga Kanthasamy and
  • Herbert Pfnür

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1690–1697, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.171

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Published 04 Aug 2015

Large-voltage behavior of charge transport characteristics in nanosystems with weak electron–vibration coupling

  • Tomáš Novotný and
  • Wolfgang Belzig

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1853–1859, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.188

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Published 03 Sep 2015

Sub-monolayer film growth of a volatile lanthanide complex on metallic surfaces

  • Hironari Isshiki,
  • Jinjie Chen,
  • Kevin Edelmann and
  • Wulf Wulfhekel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2412–2416, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.248

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Published 16 Dec 2015

Vibration-mediated Kondo transport in molecular junctions: conductance evolution during mechanical stretching

  • David Rakhmilevitch and
  • Oren Tal

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2417–2422, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.249

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Published 17 Dec 2015

Chemical bath deposition of textured and compact zinc oxide thin films on vinyl-terminated polystyrene brushes

  • Nina J. Blumenstein,
  • Caroline G. Hofmeister,
  • Peter Lindemann,
  • Cheng Huang,
  • Johannes Baier,
  • Andreas Leineweber,
  • Stefan Walheim,
  • Christof Wöll,
  • Thomas Schimmel and
  • Joachim Bill

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 102–110, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.12

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Published 25 Jan 2016

Linear and nonlinear optical properties of hybrid metallic–dielectric plasmonic nanoantennas

  • Mario Hentschel,
  • Bernd Metzger,
  • Bastian Knabe,
  • Karsten Buse and
  • Harald Giessen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 111–120, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.13

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Published 26 Jan 2016

Single-molecule magnet behavior in 2,2’-bipyrimidine-bridged dilanthanide complexes

  • Wen Yu,
  • Frank Schramm,
  • Eufemio Moreno Pineda,
  • Yanhua Lan,
  • Olaf Fuhr,
  • Jinjie Chen,
  • Hironari Isshiki,
  • Wolfgang Wernsdorfer,
  • Wulf Wulfhekel and
  • Mario Ruben

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 126–137, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.15

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Published 28 Jan 2016

Functional fusion of living systems with synthetic electrode interfaces

  • Oskar Staufer,
  • Sebastian Weber,
  • C. Peter Bengtson,
  • Hilmar Bading,
  • Joachim P. Spatz and
  • Amin Rustom

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 296–301, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.27

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Published 26 Feb 2016

Hemolysin coregulated protein 1 as a molecular gluing unit for the assembly of nanoparticle hybrid structures

  • Tuan Anh Pham,
  • Andreas Schreiber,
  • Elena V. Sturm (née Rosseeva),
  • Stefan Schiller and
  • Helmut Cölfen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 351–363, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.32

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Published 04 Mar 2016

Rigid multipodal platforms for metal surfaces

  • Michal Valášek,
  • Marcin Lindner and
  • Marcel Mayor

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 374–405, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.34

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Published 08 Mar 2016

Charge and heat transport in soft nanosystems in the presence of time-dependent perturbations

  • Alberto Nocera,
  • Carmine Antonio Perroni,
  • Vincenzo Marigliano Ramaglia and
  • Vittorio Cataudella

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 439–464, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.39

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Published 18 Mar 2016

Active multi-point microrheology of cytoskeletal networks

  • Tobias Paust,
  • Tobias Neckernuss,
  • Lina Katinka Mertens,
  • Ines Martin,
  • Michael Beil,
  • Paul Walther,
  • Thomas Schimmel and
  • Othmar Marti

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 484–491, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.42

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Published 24 Mar 2016

First-principles study of the structure of water layers on flat and stepped Pb electrodes

  • Xiaohang Lin,
  • Ferdinand Evers and
  • Axel Groß

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 533–543, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.47

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Published 11 Apr 2016

Novel roles for well-known players: from tobacco mosaic virus pests to enzymatically active assemblies

  • Claudia Koch,
  • Fabian J. Eber,
  • Carlos Azucena,
  • Alexander Förste,
  • Stefan Walheim,
  • Thomas Schimmel,
  • Alexander M. Bittner,
  • Holger Jeske,
  • Hartmut Gliemann,
  • Sabine Eiben,
  • Fania C. Geiger and
  • Christina Wege

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 613–629, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.54

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Published 25 Apr 2016

Magnetic switching of nanoscale antidot lattices

  • Ulf Wiedwald,
  • Joachim Gräfe,
  • Kristof M. Lebecki,
  • Maxim Skripnik,
  • Felix Haering,
  • Gisela Schütz,
  • Paul Ziemann,
  • Eberhard Goering and
  • Ulrich Nowak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 733–750, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.65

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Published 24 May 2016

Thermo-voltage measurements of atomic contacts at low temperature

  • Ayelet Ofarim,
  • Bastian Kopp,
  • Thomas Möller,
  • León Martin,
  • Johannes Boneberg,
  • Paul Leiderer and
  • Elke Scheer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 767–775, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.68

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Published 30 May 2016

Assembling semiconducting molecules by covalent attachment to a lamellar crystalline polymer substrate

  • Rainhard Machatschek,
  • Patrick Ortmann,
  • Renate Reiter,
  • Stefan Mecking and
  • Günter Reiter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 784–798, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.70

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Published 02 Jun 2016

Reconstitution of the membrane protein OmpF into biomimetic block copolymer–phospholipid hybrid membranes

  • Matthias Bieligmeyer,
  • Franjo Artukovic,
  • Stephan Nussberger,
  • Thomas Hirth,
  • Thomas Schiestel and
  • Michaela Müller

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 881–892, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.80

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Published 21 Jun 2016

Role of solvents in the electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions

  • Katharina Luka-Guth,
  • Sebastian Hambsch,
  • Andreas Bloch,
  • Philipp Ehrenreich,
  • Bernd Michael Briechle,
  • Filip Kilibarda,
  • Torsten Sendler,
  • Dmytro Sysoiev,
  • Thomas Huhn,
  • Artur Erbe and
  • Elke Scheer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1055–1067, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.99

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Published 22 Jul 2016

Dynamic of cold-atom tips in anharmonic potentials

  • Tobias Menold,
  • Peter Federsel,
  • Carola Rogulj,
  • Hendrik Hölscher,
  • József Fortágh and
  • Andreas Günther

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1543–1555, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.148

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Published 31 Oct 2016

Nonlinear thermoelectric effects in high-field superconductor-ferromagnet tunnel junctions

  • Stefan Kolenda,
  • Peter Machon,
  • Detlef Beckmann and
  • Wolfgang Belzig

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1579–1585, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.152

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Published 03 Nov 2016

Nano- and microstructured materials for in vitro studies of the physiology of vascular cells

  • Alexandra M. Greiner,
  • Adria Sales,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Sarah A. Biela,
  • Dieter Kaufmann and
  • Ralf Kemkemer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1620–1641, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.155

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Published 08 Nov 2016

Active and fast charge-state switching of single NV centres in diamond by in-plane Al-Schottky junctions

  • Christoph Schreyvogel,
  • Vladimir Polyakov,
  • Sina Burk,
  • Helmut Fedder,
  • Andrej Denisenko,
  • Felipe Fávaro de Oliveira,
  • Ralf Wunderlich,
  • Jan Meijer,
  • Verena Zuerbig,
  • Jörg Wrachtrup and
  • Christoph E. Nebel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1727–1735, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.165

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Published 16 Nov 2016

Surface-enhanced infrared absorption studies towards a new optical biosensor

  • Lothar Leidner,
  • Julia Stäb,
  • Jennifer T. Adam and
  • Günter Gauglitz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1736–1742, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.166

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Published 16 Nov 2016

Adsorption and electronic properties of pentacene on thin dielectric decoupling layers

  • Sebastian Koslowski,
  • Daniel Rosenblatt,
  • Alexander Kabakchiev,
  • Klaus Kuhnke,
  • Klaus Kern and
  • Uta Schlickum

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1388–1395, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.140

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Published 06 Jul 2017
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