Plasmonic nanotechnology for photothermal applications – an evaluation

• A. R. Indhu,
• L. Keerthana and
• Gnanaprakash Dharmalingam

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 380–419, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.33

• ], catalysis [19], clean water production [15], and wearable heaters [20][21], to name a few. This review is on PPT nanoparticle research spanning the conventional options (metals and alloys) as well as materials with induced plasmonic properties, with a special emphasis on their stability in terms of

• prospects of the core itself, such as size and composition. 2.2.2 Nanorods: Nanorods in the shapes of cylinders or rectangles are a very common morphology explored in applications of sensing, catalysis, and plasmonics. Their attributes, including aspect ratio (ratio of the length to width), curvature

• , homogeneity, dimer formation, and placement, make them very interesting for multiple applications such as communication, hot-carrier enhanced catalysis, high-temperature sensing [61], and electronics applications such as transistors. Their extinction coefficient is often calculated using Gans theory for

New trends in nanobiotechnology

• Pau-Loke Show,
• Kit Wayne Chew,
• Wee-Jun Ong,
• Sunita Varjani and
• Joon Ching Juan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 377–379, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.32

• Pau-Loke Show Kit Wayne Chew Wee-Jun Ong Sunita Varjani Joon Ching Juan Department of Chemical Engineering, Khalifa University, P.O. Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability, Lucknow, India Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre (NanoCat

• Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637459 Singapore School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Malaysia, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Selangor, 43900, Malaysia Center of Excellence for NaNo Energy & Catalysis Technology (CONNECT), Xiamen University Malaysia, Selangor Darul Ehsan

Biocatalytic synthesis and ordered self-assembly of silica nanoparticles via a silica-binding peptide

• Mustafa Gungormus

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 280–290, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.25

• methods for manufacturing ordered structures of nanoparticles is an ongoing challenge. Ordered structures of SiO2 nanoparticles have gained increased attention due to the great potential they offer in filtering, separation, drug delivery, optics, electronics, and catalysis. Biomolecules, such as peptides

• gained increased attention due to the great potential they offer in filtering, separation, drug delivery, optics, electronics, and catalysis [1][2][3][4][5]. Nanoparticles with ordered 3D structures, such as supra-particles or super lattices, can possess properties that are not observed in the bulk

A TiO₂@MWCNTs nanocomposite photoanode for solar-driven water splitting

• Anh Quynh Huu Le,
• Ngoc Nhu Thi Nguyen,
• Hai Duy Tran,
• Van-Huy Nguyen and
• Le-Hai Tran

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1520–1530, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.125

• exhibits poor hydrogen production under sunlight irradiation. It could be explained by the 3.14 eV optical band gap of TiO2, which absorbs only UV light. In addition, the fast recombination of the photogenerated (h+/e−) pairs contributes to the poor photochemical catalysis activity of the TiO2 electrode

Rapid and sensitive detection of box turtles using an electrochemical DNA biosensor based on a gold/graphene nanocomposite

• Abu Hashem,
• M. A. Motalib Hossain,
• Ab Rahman Marlinda,
• Mohammad Al Mamun,
• Khanom Simarani and
• Mohd Rafie Johan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1458–1472, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.120

• Abu Hashem M. A. Motalib Hossain Ab Rahman Marlinda Mohammad Al Mamun Khanom Simarani Mohd Rafie Johan Nanotechnology and Catalysis Research Centre, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Microbial Biotechnology Division, National Institute of

• . Acknowledgements The graphical abstract was created with BioRender.com. This content is not subject to CC BY 4.0. Funding This work was supported by the Nanotechnology and Catalysis Research Center, University of Malaya, under the grant No. RU003-2021 as well as by Bangabandhu Science and Technology Fellowship

Supramolecular assembly of pentamidine and polymeric cyclodextrin bimetallic core–shell nanoarchitectures

• Alexandru-Milentie Hada,
• Nina Burduja,
• Marco Abbate,
• Claudio Stagno,
• Guy Caljon,
• Louis Maes,
• Nicola Micale,
• Massimiliano Cordaro,
• Angela Scala,
• Antonino Mazzaglia and
• Anna Piperno

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1361–1369, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.112

• composed of gold and/or silver, are versatile agents endowed with unique physicochemical properties, which recently have drawn great interest for a variety of applications ranging from catalysis to nanomedicine [1][2][3]. The size of the NPs is a key parameter that defines their optical properties

Recent trends in Bi-based nanomaterials: challenges, fabrication, enhancement techniques, and environmental applications

• Vishal Dutta,
• Ankush Chauhan,
• Ritesh Verma,
• C. Gopalkrishnan and
• Van-Huy Nguyen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1316–1336, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.109

Studies of probe tip materials by atomic force microscopy: a review

• Ke Xu and
• Yuzhe Liu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1256–1267, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.104

• properties, and thus the fluorescence emission can be tuned by controlling different sizes. Due to their unique electronic, physical, and optical properties, metal nanoclusters have attracted great interest in recent years for electronic devices, catalysis, bioimaging, and chemical sensing [18][19][20][21

Role of titanium and organic precursors in molecular layer deposition of “titanicone” hybrid materials

• Arbresha Muriqi and
• Michael Nolan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1240–1255, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.103

• inorganic films used extensively in photovoltaics, (nano)electronics, energy storage and catalysis [5][6][7][8]. Similarly to ALD, MLD is based on sequential self-limiting reactions of readily vaporized inorganic precursors but the second reactant is a highly volatile organic species. Thus, in contrast to

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

• sensibility. Calixarenes. Chiral calixarenes are a class of important host compounds which have wide applications in chiral recognition, enantiomer separation, and asymmetrical catalysis [70][71][72]. Calix[4]arene compounds are the most investigated molecules due to their stable bowl-shaped conformation and

• considered to be the most promising platform for enantiospecific sensing and may also be explored for chiral separation and catalysis [111]. Induced chiral metal or inorganic oxides Based on the template strategy, metals or inorganic oxides with chiral channels could be fabricated by using chiral templates

• [112][113]. Such materials possess controllable pore dimensions, compositions, and high surface areas, which may be intriguing substrates for chiral catalysis, sensing, and separation of various kinds of chiral analytes [114][115]. For example, Qiu et al. used SiO2 with chiral channels obtained after

Green synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles toward highly efficient photocatalysis and antibacterial application

• Vo Thi Thu Nhu,
• Nguyen Duy Dat,
• Le-Minh Tam and
• Nguyen Hoang Phuong

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1108–1119, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.94

• technologies have been proposed to remove organic pollutants from water, including coagulation coupled with sedimentation, biological processes, membrane filtration, adsorption, advanced oxidation, catalysis, and photocatalysis [1][2][3]. Using semiconductors as photocatalysts has been a widely studied

Recent advances in green carbon dots (2015–2022): synthesis, metal ion sensing, and biological applications

• Aisha Kanwal,
• Naheed Bibi,
• Sajjad Hyder,
• Arif Muhammad,
• Hao Ren,
• Jiangtao Liu and
• Zhongli Lei

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1068–1107, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.93

• sensing, bioimaging, catalysis, medicine, optoelectronics, and drug delivery due to their unique properties, that is, low cytotoxicity, cytocompatibility, water-solubility, multicolor wavelength tuned emission, photo-stability, easy modification, strong chemical inertness, etc. This review article

• were employed as probes for detecting metal ions and in live-cell imaging, and they had a high quantum yield of 61% [126]. Chen et al. proposed a quick method for producing highly luminous CDs by hydrothermally treating lignin with H2O2. It is well recognized that under the photoassisted catalysis of

Self-assembly of C₆₀ on a ZnTPP/Fe(001)–p(1 × 1)O substrate: observation of a quasi-freestanding C₆₀ monolayer

• Guglielmo Albani,
• Michele Capra,
• Alessandro Lodesani,
• Alberto Calloni,
• Gianlorenzo Bussetti,
• Marco Finazzi,
• Franco Ciccacci,
• Alberto Brambilla,
• Lamberto Duò and
• Andrea Picone

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 857–864, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.76

• applications in new emerging fields, such as nanoscale catalysis [4][5], organic electronics [6][7], and spintronics [8][9], to name just a few. From a fundamental point of view, well-defined organic/inorganic heterostructures represent an interesting benchmark for the investigation of the boundary between

Recent advances in nanoarchitectures of monocrystalline coordination polymers through confined assembly

• Lingling Xia,
• Qinyue Wang and
• Ming Hu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 763–777, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.67

• , which are important for increase the density of active sites for catalysis and energy storage. However, they are too narrow for the transport of small molecules, hindering fast mass transport. Forming additional porous textures in monocrystalline coordination polymers can perfectly solve this problem by

A new method for obtaining the magnetic shape anisotropy directly from electron tomography images

• Cristian Radu,
• Ioana D. Vlaicu and
• Andrei C. Kuncser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 590–598, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.51

• very brief review of such techniques is given in the following. The particle size and shape of particulate systems ranging from the nanometer (characteristic to catalysis, sensoristics, spintronics, and some medical therapies [1][2][3]) over the micrometer (pharmaceutical industry and powder metallurgy

Zinc oxide nanostructures for fluorescence and Raman signal enhancement: a review

• Ioana Marica,
• Fran Nekvapil,
• Maria Ștefan,
• Cosmin Farcău and
• Alexandra Falamaș

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 472–490, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.40

• , due to the energy and electron transfer from plasmon-resonant metal surfaces to the adjacent semiconductor. Such hybrid materials have been proposed for medical and pharmaceutical applications, catalysis, and electronics [88]. The photoluminescence emission of ZnO nanoparticles has been exploited in

Interfacial nanoarchitectonics for ZIF-8 membranes with enhanced gas separation

• Season S. Chen,
• Zhen-Jie Yang,
• Chia-Hao Chang,
• Hoong-Uei Koh,
• Sameerah I. Al-Saeedi,
• Kuo-Lun Tung and
• Kevin C.-W. Wu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 313–324, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.26

• ]. Given these structural properties, MOFs are widely applied to gas storage [18], gas/liquid separation [18][19][20], energy storage [21][22][23], sensing [24], catalysis [25], electrochemistry [26], and bio-related fields [27]. Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs), a subclass of MOFs, comprise

Surfactant-free syntheses and pair distribution function analysis of osmium nanoparticles

• Mikkel Juelsholt,
• Jonathan Quinson,
• Emil T. S. Kjær,
• Baiyu Wang,
• Rebecca Pittkowski,
• Susan R. Cooper,
• Tiffany L. Kinnibrugh,
• Søren B. Simonsen,
• Luise Theil Kuhn,
• María Escudero-Escribano and
• Kirsten M. Ø. Jensen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 230–235, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.17

• ] complexes. Keywords: metal nanoparticles; osmium; pair distribution function; surfactant-free synthesis; Findings Precious metals are limited resources, yet fundamental for a range of applications, such as in medicine or catalysis [1][2][3]. There are relatively few reports on osmium (Os) compared to

• by the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF-149) Center for High-Entropy Alloys Catalysis (CHEAC). This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility, operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory

Impact of device design on the electronic and optoelectronic properties of integrated Ru-terpyridine complexes

• Max Mennicken,
• Sophia Katharina Peter,
• Corinna Kaulen,
• Ulrich Simon and
• Silvia Karthäuser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 219–229, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.16

• [5][6][7]. TP complexes, themselves or as hybrid materials with (semi)conducting species, are redox-active and, thus, enable applications in nanoelectronics and catalysis [8][9][10]. Among the suitable transition metal centers, Ru is highly attractive since Ru(TP)2-complexes show intense metal-to

Theoretical understanding of electronic and mechanical properties of 1T′ transition metal dichalcogenide crystals

• Seyedeh Alieh Kazemi,
• Sadegh Imani Yengejeh,
• Vei Wang,
• William Wen and
• Yun Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 160–171, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.11

• Seyedeh Alieh Kazemi Sadegh Imani Yengejeh Vei Wang William Wen Yun Wang Centre for Catalysis and Clean Energy, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, QLD 4222, Australia Department of Applied Physics, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710054, China 10.3762

• from catalysis to energy storage and electronic devices [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Generally, each TMD layer can be described as a sandwich type of structure (X–TM–X), where TM and X are transition metal cations (e.g., Mo and W) and chalcogen anions (e.g., S and Se). Individual layers are bound via

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

• vacancy defects (OVs) [15][16]. Therefore, SnO2 is considered a potential material in various technological fields such as catalysis, optoelectronic devices, rechargeable lithium batteries, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, solar energy conversion, and gas sensing [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. In the

• BY 4.0. The proposed process of NO + O2 reaction over Ce–SnO2 under visible light irradiation. The ROS reacted with the activated NO− intermediates to nitrates and nitrites. Figure 15 was reprinted from [39], Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, vol. 284, by Song, X.; Qin, G.; Cheng, G.; Jiang, W

• time of SnO2 NPs (a) and Ag@SnO2 (b). Figure 16 was reprinted from [72], Catalysis Communications, vol. 136, by Bui, D. P.; Nguyen, M. T.; Tran, H. H.; You, S.-J.; Wang, Y.-F.; Van Viet, P. “Green synthesis of Ag@SnO2 nanocomposites for enhancing photocatalysis of nitrogen monoxide removal under solar

Sputtering onto liquids: a critical review

• Anastasiya Sergievskaya,
• Adrien Chauvin and
• Stephanos Konstantinidis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 10–53, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.2

• . Because of the size effects, NPs have unique properties that allow them to be used as components of advanced materials for a wide range of applications such as optics, catalysis, or biomedicine [1][2][3]. Since the properties of NPs strongly depend on their size, size distribution, shape, composition, and

Chemical vapor deposition of germanium-rich CrGe_x nanowires

• Vladislav Dřínek,
• Stanislav Tiagulskyi,
• Roman Yatskiv,
• Jan Grym,
• Radek Fajgar,
• Věra Jandová,
• Martin Koštejn and
• Jaroslav Kupčík

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1365–1371, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.100

• applications, as well as catalysis. Moreover, their compatibility with silicon technology is advantageous. The rising need for advanced technologies in IT, aerospace, chemical, and power supply industries has accelerated the search for novel materials that could be applied along with traditional materials or

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

Effects of temperature and repeat layer spacing on mechanical properties of graphene/polycrystalline copper nanolaminated composites under shear loading

• Chia-Wei Huang,
• Man-Ping Chang and
• Te-Hua Fang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 863–877, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.65

• properties in various fields, such as supercapacitors, integrated electrodes, catalysis, and sensors [10][11][12][13]. Furthermore, the interaction between graphene and matrix materials directly affects the mechanical properties of composites [14]. The van der Waals force between graphene and metals can