Liquid-phase exfoliated graphene: functionalization, characterization, and applications

• Mildred Quintana,
• Jesús Iván Tapia and
• Maurizio Prato

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2328–2338, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.242

• moieties to covalently attach to the graphene surface as well as the functionalization strategy. Conclusion Substantial efforts have been performed for the mass scale-up and low-cost production of graphene. Thus far, wet chemical strategies have been demonstrated as the most efficient for the inclusion of

Localized surface plasmon resonances in nanostructures to enhance nonlinear vibrational spectroscopies: towards an astonishing molecular sensitivity

• Dan Lis and
• Francesca Cecchet

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2275–2292, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.237

• intensity is proportional to |g|²·|E0|² = |g|²·I0, the specific case in which both the incident and scattered fields are in resonance with a (broad) plasmon mode makes the SERS intensity to scale up with |g|4·I0, leading to an enhancement factor of 1012. Accordingly, LSPR represents the most commonly used

Electrical contacts to individual SWCNTs: A review

• Wei Liu,
• Christofer Hierold and
• Miroslav Haluska

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2202–2215, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.229

• processes which could be used as a scale-up process for patterning metal–nanotube contacts. For instance, Vazquez-Mena et al. [72] developed a stencil lithography process to fabricate metallic nanowires at the wafer level. Nanoslits with a width down to 70 nm were defined on a wafer level membrane made of

Ionic liquid-assisted formation of cellulose/calcium phosphate hybrid materials

• Ahmed Salama,
• Mike Neumann,
• Christina Günter and
• Andreas Taubert

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1553–1568, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.167

• - and mesostructured) carbohydrate/calcium phosphate hybrid materials with the potential for scale-up. While the organic modification of cellulose in ILs has yielded a large number of publications [35][37][40][57] the synthesis of carbohydrate/inorganic hybrid materials from ILs is still in its infancy

Applicability and costs of nanofiltration in combination with photocatalysis for the treatment of dye house effluents

• Wolfgang M. Samhaber and
• Minh Tan Nguyen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 476–484, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.55

• useful for a further scale-up. NF membranes are mostly used for the more sophisticated separation step of these processes and the additional costs of the NF treatment, without any associated equipments, will be described and illustrated. The total specific costs of industrial NF treatment processes in

Controlled synthesis and tunable properties of ultrathin silica nanotubes through spontaneous polycondensation on polyamine fibrils

• Jian-Jun Yuan,
• Pei-Xin Zhu,
• Daisuke Noda and
• Ren-Hua Jin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 793–804, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.90

• very mild silicification conditions (aqueous media, room-temperature and high efficiency), which could allow for an easy scale-up of silica nanotube fabrication and subsequently for wide technological applications. The silica nanotubes can be tuned to an emitter of visible light through the pyrolysis

Pore structure and surface area of silica SBA-15: influence of washing and scale-up

• Jörg P. Thielemann,
• Frank Girgsdies,
• Robert Schlögl and
• Christian Hess

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 110–118, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.13

• larger batch sizes the influence of the quantity of solvent on the quality of the SBA-15 is reduced. Keywords: SBA-15; scale-up; silica mesoporous material; tensile strength effect; washing; Introduction SBA-15 is a mesoporous silica sieve based on uniform hexagonal pores with a narrow pore size

• and thus also on the pore size distribution of the resulting SBA-15. To investigate to which extent a synthesis scale up is influenced by this “washing effect” a 9× batch was split into sub factions resembling 9×, 3×, 1× half size batches. Before washing a reference sample (80 mg) was taken from the 9

• increases. This indicates that the mesopores in the material become more ordered and homogeneous during the scale-up. These results were also corroborated by small angle XRD. On the one hand, as can be seen in Figure 10, the relative intensity of the (110) and (200) reflections decreases compared to the

On the reticular construction concept of covalent organic frameworks

• Binit Lukose,
• Agnieszka Kuc,
• Johannes Frenzel and
• Thomas Heine

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 60–70, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.8

• , and that the synthesis can be carried out solvothermally. MOFs are commercially available, and the scale up of production is continuing. Since the discovery of MOFs, many other crystalline frameworks have been synthesized using reticular chemistry, such as Metal-Organic Polyhedra (MOP) [5], Zeolite