Morphology-driven gas sensing by fabricated fractals: A review

• Vishal Kamathe and
• Rupali Nagar

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1187–1208, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.88

The importance of design in nanoarchitectonics: multifractality in MACE silicon nanowires

• Stefania Carapezzi and
• Anna Cavallini

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2094–2102, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.204

• -generated morphologies, in order to be able to discriminate among them and possibly to relate them to growth procedures from one side and to physical properties from another side. In this regard, fractal analysis [20] is an analytical framework fit for the purpose. Indeed, self-assembled patterns derived

• phenomena are intrinsically finite and their fractality, if any, can be determined only within a specific regime of length scales. These structures are called random fractals. When the fractal analysis is applied to investigate shapes of natural objects, this is performed by analyzing their images. Thus, it

• range of possible D0 values seems to be approximately the same in both samples. It has to be noted that MACE Si NW samples have been characterized by simple fractal analysis in a previous work [37], where a value of DBC of about 1.9 has been found. However, it should be taken into account that in that

A new approach to grain boundary engineering for nanocrystalline materials

• Shigeaki Kobayashi,
• Sadahiro Tsurekawa and
• Tadao Watanabe

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1829–1849, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.176

• , hardness, and the control of segregation-induced intergranular brittleness and intergranular fatigue fracture in electrodeposited nickel and nickel alloys with initial submicrometer-grained structure. A new approach to GBE based on fractal analysis of grain boundary connectivity is proposed to produce high

• the fractal analysis of the grain boundary microstructure. Keywords: electrical resistivity control; fractal analysis; grain boundary engineering (GBE); intergranular fracture control; nanocrystalline materials; Review Introduction Nanocrystalline metals and alloys have been receiving increased

• properties such as hardness and on control of segregation-induced intergranular brittleness and fatigue fracture. Then we will introduce a new approach to GBE based on fractal analysis of grain boundary microstructure for development of nanocrystalline materials with high performance and desirable mechanical