Nanoarchitectonics of photothermal materials to enhance the sensitivity of lateral flow assays

• Elangovan Sarathkumar,
• Rajasekharan S. Anjana and
• Ramapurath S. Jayasree

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 988–1003, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.82

• , polymers such as polyaniline (PANI), poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) and polydopamine (PDA) are used as photothermal agents. After protonation in acidic environments, PANI absorbs photons in the NIR range. PEDOT maintains its photothermal properties even after continuous heating or cooling [24

Conjugated photothermal materials and structure design for solar steam generation

• Chia-Yang Lin and
• Tsuyoshi Michinobu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 454–466, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.36

• (PPy), polyaniline (PANI), and polydopamine (PDA) (Figure 5). Polypyrrole: Polypyrrole (PPy), a conjugated conducting polymer, has a broad optical absorption spectrum and is an excellent solar thermal material. PPy is a promising candidate because of its inexpensive and simple synthetic process

• : Polyaniline (PANI) has proven to be an efficient water evaporation material because it is inexpensive, easy to synthesize, flexible, chemically stable, light absorbing, and adhesive [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]. PANI cross-linked to hydrophilic soft polymers makes the material as tough and flexible as an

Design of surface nanostructures for chirality sensing based on quartz crystal microbalance

• Yinglin Ma,
• Xiangyun Xiao and
• Qingmin Ji

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1201–1219, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.100

• recognition of ᴅ/ʟ-phenylalanine in polyaniline (PANI) film using R-camphorsulfonic acid (R-CSA) as the chiral template [51]. The QCM measurements indicated that the CSA-depleted PANI film showed a preference not only for adsorption of ᴅ-phenylalanine but also had similar responses for ᴅ-alanine and ᴅ

Modeling a multiple-chain emeraldine gas sensor for NH₃ and NO₂ detection

• Hana Sustkova and
• Jan Voves

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 721–729, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.64

• Hana Sustkova Jan Voves Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technicka 2, Prague 6, Czech Republic 10.3762/bjnano.13.64 Abstract This paper describes atomistic device models of a multiple-chain polyaniline (PANI) gas sensing component, utilizing the non

A chemiresistive sensor array based on polyaniline nanocomposites and machine learning classification

• Jiri Kroutil,
• Alexandr Laposa,
• Ali Ahmad,
• Jan Voves,
• Vojtech Povolny,
• Ladislav Klimsa,
• Marina Davydova and
• Miroslav Husak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 411–423, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.34

• between VOCs, supported by a vector machine to distinguish between acetone, nitrogen dioxide, and ammonia, and by a neutral network model to distinguish between ammonia and formaldehyde gas [7][8][9]. In our previous work [10], we demonstrated a combination of organic (polyaniline, PANI) and inorganic

Tin dioxide nanomaterial-based photocatalysts for nitrogen oxide oxidation: a review

• Viet Van Pham,
• Hong-Huy Tran,
• Thao Kim Truong and
• Thi Minh Cao

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 96–113, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.7

• TiO2 and BiOBr, recent works reported the successful combination of SnO2 nanomaterials with conjugated polymers such as graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) and polyaniline (PANI), yielding metal-free visible-light-driven photocatalysts for addressing NO gas pollution. Such combinations hold great

• new insights into the underlying mechanism of heterojunction photocatalysts, especially those with Z-shaped interfaces [76]. Polyaniline (PANI) is a conducting polymer and compared to g-C3N4, PANI is inexpensive and easy to synthesize. Bui et al. [35] presented a SnO2/PANI nanocomposite for

Paper-based triboelectric nanogenerators and their applications: a review

• Jing Han,
• Nuo Xu,
• Yuchen Liang,
• Mei Ding,
• Junyi Zhai,
• Qijun Sun and
• Zhong Lin Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 151–171, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.12

• . TENGs can also be used to harvest mechanical energy and drive electropolymerization processes without an external power source to drive the electrochemical reaction. Shi et al. obtained a P-TENG electrochemical system for electropolymerizing polyaniline (PANI) on a CNT electrode. Figure 10a shows the

ZnO and MXenes as electrode materials for supercapacitor devices

• Ameen Uddin Ammar,
• Ipek Deniz Yildirim,
• Feray Bakan and
• Emre Erdem

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 49–57, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.4

• applications that offer high power density, stability, and safety. A specific capacitance of 366 F·g−1 was achieved at 2 mVs-1 [18]. In addition, Li et al. designed an asymmetric pseudosupercapacitor of wavy-Ti3C2Tx/reduced graphene oxide (rGO)/CNT/polyaniline(PANI), in which the Ti3C2Tx MXene is used as

Adsorptive removal of bulky dye molecules from water with mesoporous polyaniline-derived carbon

• Hyung Jun An,
• Jong Min Park,
• Nazmul Abedin Khan and
• Sung Hwa Jhung

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 597–605, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.47

• ]. Moreover, highly porous carbon materials, especially with high nitrogen content, have been produced from various precursors including organic polymers [29][30][31][32][33] and MOFs [34][35][36][37][38]. Polyaniline (PANI), prepared from aniline, is a useful polymer in various fields because of its facile

Ternary nanocomposites of reduced graphene oxide, polyaniline and hexaniobate: hierarchical architecture and high polaron formation

• Claudio H. B. Silva,
• Maria Iliut,
• Christopher Muryn,
• Christian Berger,
• Zachary Coldrick,
• Vera R. L. Constantino,
• Marcia L. A. Temperini and
• Aravind Vijayaraghavan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2936–2946, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.272

• nanocomposite composed of polyaniline (PANI), reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and hexaniobate (hexNb) nanoscrolls. Atomic force microscopy images show an interesting architecture of rGO flakes coated with PANI and decorated by hexNb. Such features are attributed to the high stability of the rGO flakes prepared at

• electrocatalytic activity in the quantification of chemical species compared to the isolated components [5]. In earlier studies, some of us reported the preparation of binary nanocomposites of polyaniline (PANI) and hexaniobate (hexNb) nanoscrolls by layer-by-layer assembly and the characterisation by

• conductivities [15][16][17]. Polyaniline (PANI) is a conducting polymer that has shown promising properties for the development of materials for different fields such as chemical sensing [18][19], memory devices [20][21] and energy storage [22][23]. As schematically shown in Figure 1b, the conducting form of

Electrospun one-dimensional nanostructures: a new horizon for gas sensing materials

• Muhammad Imran,
• Nunzio Motta and
• Mahnaz Shafiei

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2128–2170, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.202

• (e.g., polypyrrole (PPy), polyaniline (PANI), polythiophene (PTh) and their derivatives) [32][87][88][90], MOx nanofibers surface functionalized by metal nanoparticles [75] and graphene sheets incorporated with MOx nanofibers [89]. 4.1 Conductometric gas sensors Nanostructure-based conductometric

Oxidative chemical vapor deposition of polyaniline thin films

• Yuriy Y. Smolin,
• Masoud Soroush and
• Kenneth K. S. Lau

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1266–1276, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.128

• Yuriy Y. Smolin Masoud Soroush Kenneth K. S. Lau Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA 10.3762/bjnano.8.128 Abstract Polyaniline (PANI) is synthesized via oxidative chemical vapor deposition (oCVD) using aniline as monomer and antimony

Synthesis of coaxial nanotubes of polyaniline and poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate) by oxidative/initiated chemical vapor deposition

• Alper Balkan,
• Efe Armagan and
• Gozde Ozaydin Ince

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 872–882, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.89

• . The fabrication process involves the deposition of an outer layer of the conductive polyaniline (PANI) by oxidative chemical vapor deposition, followed by the deposition of the inner layer of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (pHEMA) hydrogel by initiated chemical vapor deposition. The vapor-phase

• effect and surface tension. Thus, vapor-phase polymerization techniques have emerged for the deposition of conducting polymers that facilitate the fabrication of conformal polymeric structures [21][22]. Polyaniline (PANI) is one of the well-known conducting polymers with applications in supercapacitors

Sensitive detection of hydrocarbon gases using electrochemically Pd-modified ZnO chemiresistors

• Elena Dilonardo,
• Michele Penza,
• Marco Alvisi,
• Gennaro Cassano,
• Cinzia Di Franco,
• Francesco Palmisano,
• Luisa Torsi and
• Nicola Cioffi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 82–90, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.9

• scientific community. HCs gas sensors based on organic conducting polymers (such as polyaniline (PANI) [15][16], polypyrrole (PPy) [17] and polythiophene (PTh) [18]) and on carbon-based nanomaterials with desired functionality and conductivity (e.g., carbon nanotubes (CNTs) [19] and graphene [20]) exhibit a

Ammonia gas sensors based on In₂O₃/PANI hetero-nanofibers operating at room temperature

• Qingxin Nie,
• Zengyuan Pang,
• Hangyi Lu,
• Yibing Cai and
• Qufu Wei

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1312–1321, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.122

• sensor; indium(III) oxide (In2O3); polyaniline (PANI); Introduction With the development of modern industry, environmental pollution in the form of air pollution, water pollution and soil pollution has become ever more serious [1]. With regard to this, considerable attention has been paid to air

• be operated at room temperature. In addition, they exhibit a large specific area, small size and low weight, and they are easy to integrate with existing electronics [19][20]. Because of the environmental stability, easy synthesis and reversible doping behavior, polyaniline (PANI), as one of the most

Carbon nano-onions (multi-layer fullerenes): chemistry and applications

• Juergen Bartelmess and
• Silvia Giordani

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1980–1998, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.207

• in the presence of ascorbic acid and uric acid in solution [44]. The concentration of dopamine could be determined in a range between 5 × 10−5 and 4 × 10−3 mol·L−1. They also reported the in situ polymerization of aniline on phenylene amine-terminated CNO derivatives [45]. This polyaniline (PANI

Functionalization of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes

• Eloise Van Hooijdonk,
• Carla Bittencourt,
• Rony Snyders and
• Jean-François Colomer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 129–152, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.14

• membrane. Feng et al. [140] opted for a polyaniline (PANI) matrix. This material is one of the most conducting polymers (Figure 18). Synthesis and characterization of conducting polymer polyaniline nanofibers was reported by Huang [141]. The major issue related to great disorder of the functionalized

Self-assembled monolayers and titanium dioxide: From surface patterning to potential applications

• Yaron Paz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 845–861, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.94