Bombyx mori silk/titania/gold hybrid materials for photocatalytic water splitting: combining renewable raw materials with clean fuels

• Stefanie Krüger,
• Michael Schwarze,
• Otto Baumann,
• Christina Günter,
• Michael Bruns,
• Christian Kübel,
• Dorothée Vinga Szabó,
• Rafael Meinusch,
• Verónica de Zea Bermudez and
• Andreas Taubert

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 187–204, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.21

• focusing on the sample was achieved via an Olympus MPlanFL N (NA = 0.9) 100× objective yielding a probe area of 1.3 µm2 [56]. Raman spectra were obtained with an integration time of 50 s from 0–1200 cm−1 and the grating of the spectrograph was set to 1800 g/nm to avoid laser-induced damage in the samples

Observation and analysis of structural changes in fused silica by continuous irradiation with femtosecond laser light having an energy density below the laser-induced damage threshold

• Wataru Nomura,
• Tadashi Kawazoe,
• Takashi Yatsui,
• Makoto Naruse and
• Motoichi Ohtsu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1334–1340, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.146

• , 4-2-1 Nukui-kita, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan 10.3762/bjnano.5.146 Abstract The laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) is widely used as an index for evaluating an optical component’s resistance to laser light. However, a degradation in the performance of an optical component is also caused by

• irradiation having an energy density below the LIDT. Keywords: compositional change in molecular; femtosecond laser; fused silica; laser-induced damage; laser-induced degradation; Introduction Since the invention of the laser, it has been widely known that damages occur at the surface or interior of optical

• components when irradiated with laser light having a high energy density. A lot of research has been conducted in the area of laser-induced damage. For example: mechanism for picosecond [1][2] and femtosecond (fs) laser [3][4], effect of surface geometry [5][6], damage threshold [7][8], and so on. The laser

Photoelectrochemical and Raman characterization of In₂O₃ mesoporous films sensitized by CdS nanoparticles

• Mikalai V. Malashchonak,
• Sergey K. Poznyak,
• Eugene A. Streltsov,
• Anatoly I. Kulak,
• Olga V. Korolik and
• Alexander V. Mazanik

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 255–261, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.27

• temperature by using a Nanofinder High End (Lotis TII, Belarus–Japan) confocal-microscope-based setup. Raman scattering was excited by using a 473 nm solid-state laser. The laser power level at the sample was maintained at ca. 25 μW to minimize laser-induced damage to the CdS nanoparticles. The backscattered