Electric field induced structural colour tuning of a silver/titanium dioxide nanoparticle one-dimensional photonic crystal

• Eduardo Aluicio-Sarduy,
• Simone Callegari,
• Diana Gisell Figueroa del Valle,
• Andrea Desii,
• Ilka Kriegel and
• Francesco Scotognella

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1404–1410, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.131

• crystal device. Transmission spectra simulated with the transfer matrix method for a Ag/TiO2 nanoparticle photonic crystal device with three different carrier densities. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 192: Morphological characterization of the sample with atomic force microscopy and

Improved lithium-ion battery anode capacity with a network of easily fabricated spindle-like carbon nanofibers

• Mengting Liu,
• Wenhe Xie,
• Lili Gu,
• Tianfeng Qin,
• Xiaoyi Hou and
• Deyan He

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1289–1295, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.120

• PAN in 5 mL DMF, as well as dissolving 0.05 g C3N3(NH2)3 and 0.4 g PAN in another 5 mL DMF, respectively. Characterization of the carbon network The microstructural and morphological characterization of the as-fabricated carbon networks were conducted by field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE

Gold nanoparticles covalently assembled onto vesicle structures as possible biosensing platform

• M. Fátima Barroso,
• M. Alejandra Luna,
• Juan S. Flores Tabares,
• Cristina Delerue-Matos,
• N. Mariano Correa,
• Fernando Moyano and
• Patricia G. Molina

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 655–663, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.58

• sensible to the conditions under which they are formed. As the irradiation time modifies the nanoparticle morphology we decided to irradiate for longer time, in this case, 13 min. Some techniques, such as UV–vis spectroscopy and TEM were used to perform the morphological characterization of the AuNPs

Nanofibers for drug delivery – incorporation and release of model molecules, influence of molecular weight and polymer structure

• Jakub Hrib,
• Jakub Sirc,
• Radka Hobzova,
• Zuzana Hampejsova,
• Zuzana Bosakova,
• Marcela Munzarova and
• Jiri Michalek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1939–1945, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.198

• not noticeably influence the nanofiber structure. According to the results of morphological characterization, the nanofibrous structures remained similar to those of nanofibers without model molecules, even for nanofibers that contained PEG 20 (Figure 2d–f). Clusters or other artifacts were not

• possible. However, the morphological characterization revealed several differences in the parameters of resultant samples (Table 1). The thinnest fibers with a mean fiber diameter 157 nm were prepared from PVA, and the thickness of PCL nanofibers (179 nm) was almost similar to this value. PLA fibers were

• . Morphological characterization of nanofibrous carriers. Acknowledgement The financial support of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (grant No. EE2.3.30.0029), the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (grant No. 13-00939S), the Charles University in Prague (project no. 307115 and

Fulleropeptide esters as potential self-assembled antioxidants

• Mira S. Bjelaković,
• Tatjana J. Kop,
• Jelena Đorđević and
• Dragana R. Milić

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1065–1071, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.107

• the subject of interest of Nakanishi's research group [12][13]. Although the morphological characterization of the self-organized fulleropeptide nanoparticles has not been extensively studied thus far, the formation of ordered superstructures under controllable conditions through the process of self

• , peptide, and steroid units [25], which possess in vitro antioxidant activity. Additionally, morphological characterization of self-organized structures of fullerene–steroid [26] and fullerene–peptide–steroid hybrids [25] in solution and in the solid state was studied by SEM. In our previous work [27], we

Automatic morphological characterization of nanobubbles with a novel image segmentation method and its application in the study of nanobubble coalescence

• Yuliang Wang,
• Huimin Wang,
• Shusheng Bi and
• Bin Guo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 952–963, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.98

• Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, P.R. China 10.3762/bjnano.6.98 Abstract Nanobubbles (NBs) on hydrophobic surfaces in aqueous solvents have shown great potential in numerous applications. In this study, the morphological characterization of NBs in AFM images was carried out with

• largest volume at 25 °C [35]. They also found that the contact angle of the NB was a function of its radius of curvature. The NB properties, including diameter, height, contact angle, radius of curvature, density and covered area, are normally studied through morphological characterization from AFM images

• selected cross sections, the NB diameter and height can be directly measured. By fitting the cross sections as arcs, the NB contact angle and radius of curvature can be obtained [36][37][38][39]. The morphological characterization of NBs suffers from several difficulties. First, NB image segmentation is

Applications of three-dimensional carbon nanotube networks

• Manuela Scarselli,
• Paola Castrucci,
• Francesco De Nicola,
• Ilaria Cacciotti,
• Francesca Nanni,
• Emanuela Gatto,
• Mariano Venanzi and
• Maurizio De Crescenzi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 792–798, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.82

• to the synthesis process induces the formation of pentagonal and heptagonal carbon rings [15][16] that favors the bent geometry of the nanostructures. No structural differences are observed along the whole sample within this morphological characterization. In the case of the sample reported in Figure

Oxygen-plasma-modified biomimetic nanofibrous scaffolds for enhanced compatibility of cardiovascular implants

• Anna Maria Pappa,
• Varvara Karagkiozaki,
• Silke Krol,
• Spyros Kassavetis,
• Dimitris Konstantinou,
• Charalampos Pitsalidis,
• Lazaros Tzounis,
• Nikos Pliatsikas and
• Stergios Logothetidis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 254–262, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.24

• evaluate the influence of the plasma treatment on cell attachment, morphology and viability. Results and Discussion Morphological characterization of the plasma-treated scaffolds Electrospinning is a versatile and well-established technique broadly applied for the fabrication of nanofibrous meshes as

• Morphological characterization SEM: The morphological analysis of the PCL scaffolds was carried out by using scanning electron microscopy (SEM, NEON40, Carl Zeiss). In order to visualize and evaluate the morphological characteristics of the investigated materials, secondary electron detector was used. AFM

Nanobioarchitectures based on chlorophyll photopigment, artificial lipid bilayers and carbon nanotubes

• Marcela Elisabeta Barbinta-Patrascu,
• Stefan Marian Iordache,
• Ana Maria Iordache,
• Nicoleta Badea and
• Camelia Ungureanu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2316–2325, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.240

• their small size as compared to the samples without cholesterol (see Figure 2). This leads to fluorescence quenching due to the efficient energy transfer between chlorophyll molecules, which are closer in small vesicles. Morphological characterization of biohybrid architectures Figure 6 shows a partial

Photodetectors based on carbon nanotubes deposited by using a spray technique on semi-insulating gallium arsenide

• Domenico Melisi,
• Maria Angela Nitti,
• Marco Valentini,
• Antonio Valentini,
• Teresa Ligonzo,
• Giuseppe De Pascali and
• Marianna Ambrico

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1999–2006, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.208

• comparable with those obtained for similar detectors with CNTs deposited by CVD [7][13][14][15]. In this work results from a photodetector based on CNTs spray-deposited on semi-insulating gallium arsenide (SI GaAs) are reported. In order to perform the morphological characterization of the resulting films

Scale effects of nanomechanical properties and deformation behavior of Au nanoparticle and thin film using depth sensing nanoindentation

• Dave Maharaj and
• Bharat Bhushan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 822–836, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.94

• presented for low, intermediate and high loads. Morphological characterization, before and after deformation, is also presented. Finally load–displacement curves for repeat compression tests using the flat punch are presented. Nanoindentation with a Berkovich tip – Indentation of thin films Indentation with

Morphological characterization of fullerene–androsterone conjugates

• Alberto Ruiz,
• Margarita Suárez,
• Nazario Martin,
• Fernando Albericio and
• Hortensia Rodríguez

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 374–379, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.43

• report on the morphological characterization of four fullerene–androsterone conjugates in water. The morphology and particle size of the C60–androsterone hybrids in aqueous solution were determined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and dynamic light scattering (DLS). Results and Discussion The