Aquatic versus terrestrial attachment: Water makes a difference

• Petra Ditsche and
• Adam P. Summers

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2424–2439, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.252

• , fixation of the whole animal, a locomotor structure, or eggs to the substrate, and forming a stable platform for copulation, feeding, phoresy, parasitism or predation [1][2]. Here we focus on attachment of animals to stiff, solid substrates under two biologically relevant conditions – in a dry or humid

Low-cost plasmonic solar cells prepared by chemical spray pyrolysis

• Erki Kärber,
• Atanas Katerski,
• Ilona Oja Acik,
• Valdek Mikli,
• Arvo Mere,
• Ilmo Sildos and
• Malle Krunks

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2398–2402, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.249

• pneumatically sprayed through air onto a substrate with a surface temperature of 260 °C. The solution volume was varied from 2.5 to 10 mL and the solution feeding rate was 1 mL/min. Current–voltage scans of the solar cells were used to obtain the principal characteristics of the solar cells: voltage at open

The gut wall provides an effective barrier against nanoparticle uptake

• Heike Sinnecker,
• Thorsten Krause,
• Sabine Koelling,
• Ingmar Lautenschläger and
• Andreas Frey

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2092–2101, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.218

• NP entry. In the late 1990s, diverse animal feeding studies were conducted in order to quantify the amount of particles ranging from 50 nm to 20 µm in size that is taken up at different mucosal sites, such as the lymphoid- (Peyer’s patches) and non-lymphoid-associated tissue, of the digestive tract

Liquid fuel cells

• Grigorii L. Soloveichik

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1399–1418, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.153

• with the same membrane fed with 0.5 M EG in 1.7 M triflic acid solution, the power density was 120 mW/cm2 and two major by-products (glycolic and oxalic acids) were identified [103]. Discharging without EG feeding consumed the by-products almost completely; this shows the possibility of a complete EG

Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution by combining water soluble graphene with cobalt salts

• Jing Wang,
• Ke Feng,
• Hui-Hui Zhang,
• Bin Chen,
• Zhi-Jun Li,
• Qing-Yuan Meng,
• Li-Ping Zhang,
• Chen-Ho Tung and
• Li-Zhu Wu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1167–1174, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.128

• (TEOA)2 complexes were on the surface of G-SO3, because ICP-MS measurements gave a cobalt content of 11.1%, which was much lower than the feeding ratio of 22.8%. Upon irradiation, the electrons of the EY•− radical anion generated from EY and TEOA, transfer to G-SO3 or directly to CoII(TEOA)2 to initiate

Molecular biology approaches in bioadhesion research

• Marcelo Rodrigues,
• Birgit Lengerer,
• Thomas Ostermann and
• Peter Ladurner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 983–993, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.112

• organism by a variety of methods; the most common are soaking, ingestion and injection. In several aquatic organisms like Hydra, flatworms, planarians, nematodes, and shrimps, feeding or soaking are the most straightforward methodologies for delivering dsRNA. The organisms have to be immersed in a medium

• containing dsRNA. Another strategy is ingestion, by inducing target organisms to feed on other organisms like bacteria expressing the desirable dsRNA [69][82][83][84], or transgenic plants for feeding insects [85]. Also the combination of methods like the enrichment of natural diets, for example, liver paste

Grating-assisted coupling to nanophotonic circuits in microcrystalline diamond thin films

• Patrik Rath,
• Svetlana Khasminskaya,
• Christoph Nebel,
• Christoph Wild and
• Wolfram H.P. Pernice

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 300–305, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.33

• cleaning and residual particle removal. After drying under nitrogen, the wafer is transferred into an ellipsoidal 915 MHz microwave plasma reactor [24]. Diamond films with a target thickness of 600 nm are grown at 1.8 kW microwave power. As feeding gas we employ a mixture containing 2% methane and 98