Triptycene-terminated thiolate and selenolate monolayers on Au(111)

• Jinxuan Liu,
• Martin Kind,
• Björn Schüpbach,
• Daniel Käfer,
• Stefanie Winkler,
• Wenhua Zhang,
• Andreas Terfort and
• Christof Wöll

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 892–905, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.91

• appreciate financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the graduate school 611 ("Functional materials"). Financial support by Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 21673032) and State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University (201507) are gratefully

Carbon nanotube-wrapped Fe₂O₃ anode with improved performance for lithium-ion batteries

• Guoliang Gao,
• Yan Jin,
• Qun Zeng,
• Deyu Wang and
• Cai Shen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 649–656, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.69

• 510006, China Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, School of Information and Photoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China 10.3762/bjnano.8.69 Abstract Metall oxides have been proven to be potential candidates for the anode

Gas sensing properties of MWCNT layers electrochemically decorated with Au and Pd nanoparticles

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

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 592–603, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.64

• Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Laboratory Functional Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Applications - Brindisi Research Center, Brindisi, Italy, CNR-IFN Bari, Bari, Italy 10.3762/bjnano.8.64 Abstract Multiwalled carbon nanotube

Selective photodissociation of tailored molecular tags as a tool for quantum optics

• Ugur Sezer,
• Philipp Geyer,
• Moritz Kriegleder,
• Maxime Debiossac,
• Armin Shayeghi,
• Markus Arndt,
• Lukas Felix and
• Marcel Mayor

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 325–333, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.35

• Institute of Nanotechnology (INT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany Lehn Institute of Functional Materials (LIFM), Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU), Xingang Rd. W., Guangzhou, China 10.3762/bjnano.8.35 Abstract Recent progress in

Colorimetric gas detection by the varying thickness of a thin film of ultrasmall PTSA-coated TiO₂ nanoparticles on a Si substrate

• Urmas Joost,
• Andris Šutka,
• Meeri Visnapuu,
• Aile Tamm,
• Meeri Lembinen,
• Mikk Antsov,
• Kathriin Utt,
• Krisjanis Smits,
• Ergo Nõmmiste and
• Vambola Kisand

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 229–236, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.25

• Urmas Joost Andris Sutka Meeri Visnapuu Aile Tamm Meeri Lembinen Mikk Antsov Kathriin Utt Krisjanis Smits Ergo Nommiste Vambola Kisand Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, W. Ostwaldi 1, 50411 Tartu, Estonia Laboratory of Functional Materials Technologies, Riga Technical University, Paula

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

• Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Laboratory Functional Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Applications - Brindisi Research Center, Brindisi, Italy CNR-IFN Bari, Bari, Italy 10.3762/bjnano.8.9 Abstract Pristine and electrochemically Pd-modified ZnO

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering of self-assembled thiol monolayers and supported lipid membranes on thin anodic porous alumina

• Marco Salerno,
• Amirreza Shayganpour,
• Barbara Salis and
• Silvia Dante

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 74–81, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.8

• the physisorption of coating layers of functional materials [20][21]. The main component of the biological membrane that separates and protects the interior of all living cells from the outside environment is a phospholipid bilayer. For this reason, as well as for the complexity of real samples of

Graphene–polymer coating for the realization of strain sensors

• Carmela Bonavolontà,
• Carla Aramo,
• Massimo Valentino,
• Giampiero Pepe,
• Sergio De Nicola,
• Gianfranco Carotenuto,
• Angela Longo,
• Mariano Palomba,
• Simone Boccardi and
• Carosena Meola

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 21–27, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.3

• other considered functional materials, indicating a larger sensitivity of the graphene-based composite in terms of temperature response to external stimulus. In particular, the graphene-coated PMMA substrate exhibits higher temperature changes compared to that of PMMA substrate alone, and a lower

A new approach to grain boundary engineering for nanocrystalline materials

• Shigeaki Kobayashi,
• Sadahiro Tsurekawa and
• Tadao Watanabe

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1829–1849, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.176

• performance nanocrystalline or submicrometer-grained materials with desirable mechanical properties such as enhanced fracture resistance. Finally, the potential power of GBE is demonstrated for high performance functional materials like gold thin films through precise control of electrical resistance based on

• unique bulk properties of nanocrystalline materials. It is suggested that the dominant effects of grain boundaries on bulk properties of nanocrystalline structural or functional materials should be examined in relation to the applied processing methods, because the details of generation mechanisms of

• properties. Finally, our most recent work on GBE for the control of electrical resistivity in gold thin films is introduced as an example of a possible challenge toward GBE for high performance functional materials. Effect of grain boundary microstructure on hardness in electrodeposited nanocrystalline

Monolayer graphene/SiC Schottky barrier diodes with improved barrier height uniformity as a sensing platform for the detection of heavy metals

• Ivan Shtepliuk,
• Jens Eriksson,
• Volodymyr Khranovskyy,
• Tihomir Iakimov,
• Anita Lloyd Spetz and
• Rositsa Yakimova

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1800–1814, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.173

• FOX’. JE and ALS acknowledge support from the Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Functional Materials at Linköping University (Faculty Grant SFO-Mat-LiU # 2009-00971). Part of this manuscript has been presented at the Spring 2016 Meeting of the European Materials

Effective intercalation of zein into Na-montmorillonite: role of the protein components and use of the developed biointerfaces

• Ana C. S. Alcântara,
• Margarita Darder,
• Pilar Aranda and
• Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1772–1782, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.170

• ]. Particularly, biological species can be employed in the preparation of these materials, giving rise to biohybrids, which represent a growing field of research addressed to produce advanced functional materials [2]. Many studies have demonstrated that even large molecules, such as polypeptides and proteins

Photothermal effect of gold nanostar patterns inkjet-printed on coated paper substrates with different permeability

• Mykola Borzenkov,
• Anni Määttänen,
• Petri Ihalainen,
• Maddalena Collini,
• Elisa Cabrini,
• Giacomo Dacarro,
• Piersandro Pallavicini and
• Giuseppe Chirico

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1480–1485, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.140

• Chemistry, Center of Functional Materials, Åbo Academi University, Porthaninkatu 3-5, 20500, Turku, Finland Department of Chemistry, University of Pavia, viale Taramelli 12, 27100, Pavia, Italy 10.3762/bjnano.7.140 Abstract Inkjet printing of spherical gold nanoparticles is widely applied in the

• effect; Introduction Due to advantages over other patterning techniques, inkjet printing technology has met important challenges to pattern a broad range of functional materials with promising biomedical application [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Inks based on metal nanoparticles are widely used in inkjet

Fabrication and properties of luminescence polymer composites with erbium/ytterbium oxides and gold nanoparticles

• Julia A. Burunkova,
• Ihor Yu. Denisiuk,
• Dmitri I. Zhuk,
• Lajos Daroczi,
• Attila Csik,
• István Csarnovics and
• Sándor Kokenyesi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 630–636, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.55

• interaction length of about 5 mm, which is sufficient for applications in integrated optics. It is an important task to create such functional materials with high concentrations of Er for waveguides of integrated optical systems that can realize amplification in a few millimeters long waveguide instead of

In situ observation of deformation processes in nanocrystalline face-centered cubic metals

• Aaron Kobler,
• Christian Brandl,
• Horst Hahn and
• Christian Kübel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 572–580, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.50

• Nanostructured Functional Materials at KIT is gratefully acknowledged.

Rigid multipodal platforms for metal surfaces

• Michal Valášek,
• Marcin Lindner and
• Marcel Mayor

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 374–405, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.34

• Michal Valasek Marcin Lindner Marcel Mayor Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany Lehn Institute of Functional Materials (LIFM), Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU), Xingang Rd. W., Guangzhou, China

Sonochemical co-deposition of antibacterial nanoparticles and dyes on textiles

• Ilana Perelshtein,
• Anat Lipovsky,
• Nina Perkas,
• Tzanko Tzanov and
• Aharon Gedanken

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1–8, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.1

• process led to the partial reduction of Ag+ to metallic Ag, while AgCl was also formed due to the presence of Cl−. In the current work we describe the deposition of two different functional materials on textiles, e.g., dyes and biocidal NPs that were synthesized and embedded onto the surface from a

• after 65 washing cycles at 75 °C [9]. Herein, for the first time we report on the co-deposition of two functional materials. The morphologies of the dye alone and co-deposited dye and metal oxides were studied by HRSEM and are shown in Figure 4. The morphology of RB5 sonochemically deposited on cotton

• impart two functions in a one-step process that led to stabilization of the dye on the surface while exposed to the solution. Conclusion This is the first time that the sonochemical coating technique was applied for co-deposition of two functional materials. The simultaneous coating of the antibacterial

Self-organization of gold nanoparticles on silanated surfaces

• Htet H. Kyaw,
• Salim H. Al-Harthi,
• Azzouz Sellai and
• Joydeep Dutta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2345–2353, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.242

• of Oman Functional Materials Division, School of Information and Communication Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Isafjordsgatan 22, SE-164 40 Kista Stockholm, Sweden 10.3762/bjnano.6.242 Abstract The self-organization of monolayer gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) on 3

Controlled switching of single-molecule junctions by mechanical motion of a phenyl ring

• Yuya Kitaguchi,
• Satoru Habuka,
• Hiroshi Okuyama,
• Shinichiro Hatta,
• Tetsuya Aruga,
• Thomas Frederiksen,
• Magnus Paulsson and
• Hiromu Ueba

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2088–2095, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.213

• IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao, Spain School of Computer Science, Physics and Mathematics, Linnaeus University, 391 82 Kalmar, Sweden Division of Nano and New Functional Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, University of Toyama, 930-8555 Toyama, Japan

Electrospray deposition of organic molecules on bulk insulator surfaces

• Antoine Hinaut,
• Rémy Pawlak,
• Ernst Meyer and
• Thilo Glatzel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1927–1934, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.195

• molecules; non-contact AFM; ultra-high vacuum (UHV); Introduction Large complex molecules with tunable electronic properties are building block candidates for functional materials with special electrochemical and photophysical properties, which are of fundamental interest for many applications such as

Towards multifunctional inorganic materials: biopolymeric templates

• Claudia Steinem and
• Joachim Bill

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1698–1699, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.172

• generation of inorganic functional materials not found in living nature. This highly topical research field is currently drawing worldwide attention and is a main subject of the Priority Program 1569, “Generation of multifunctional inorganic materials by molecular bionics”, of the Deutsche

• Claudia Steinem Joachim Bill Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Georg-August University Göttingen, Tammannstr. 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany University of Stuttgart, Institute of Materials Science, Heisenbergstr. 3, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany 10.3762/bjnano.6.172 Inorganic functional

• materials are widely applied due to their electrical, optical, magnetic and mechanical properties. Accordingly, these materials exhibit an enormous impact on key technologies relevant for future fields such as energy generation and storage, information and medical technology as well as automotive

Peptide-equipped tobacco mosaic virus templates for selective and controllable biomineral deposition

• Klara Altintoprak,
• Axel Seidenstücker,
• Alexander Welle,
• Sabine Eiben,
• Petia Atanasova,
• Nina Stitz,
• Alfred Plettl,
• Joachim Bill,
• Hartmut Gliemann,
• Holger Jeske,
• Dirk Rothenstein,
• Fania Geiger and
• Christina Wege

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1399–1412, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.145

• , further expanding their application potential to miniaturized arrays and devices [66][67][68] and “smart” functional materials [31][69] for numerous purposes. TMV–inorganic hybrids will likely yield rigid and durable [70] technical components, which are also compatible with biological molecules and

Overview of nanoscale NEXAFS performed with soft X-ray microscopes

• Peter Guttmann and
• Carla Bittencourt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 595–604, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.61

• Peter Guttmann Carla Bittencourt Institute for Soft Matter and Functional Materials, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany ChIPS, University of Mons, B-7000, Mons, Belgium 10.3762/bjnano.6.61 Abstract Today, in material science

Nanoparticle shapes by using Wulff constructions and first-principles calculations

• Georgios D. Barmparis,
• Zbigniew Lodziana,
• Nuria Lopez and
• Ioannis N. Remediakis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 361–368, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.35

• successfully account for the nanoparticle shapes observed in experiments, including nanoparticles that interact strongly with their environment. Being a multi-scale, first-principles thermodynamics technique, it offers a parameter-free model for the key components of modern functional materials. Recent

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

• of graphene into advanced functional materials forward. Keywords: applications; dispersions; graphene; organic functionalization; ultrasonication; Review Introduction Various methodologies for the production of graphene and chemically modified graphene have been described during the last years [1

• tailored design of advanced materials. The covalent organic functionalization of graphene is necessary for several purposes. For example: (1) to increase the dispersibility in common organic solvents and water and (2) to combine the properties of graphene with the properties of other functional materials

• pristine graphene. In order to introduce higher loadings of functional materials, stronger chemical reactions for graphene functionalization can be achieved by the attack of radical species. As reactive radical species, aryl diazonium salts are attractive and popular sources. These radicals covalently

Mechanical properties of sol–gel derived SiO₂ nanotubes

• Boris Polyakov,
• Mikk Antsov,
• Sergei Vlassov,
• Leonid M Dorogin,
• Mikk Vahtrus,
• Roberts Zabels,
• Sven Lange and
• Rünno Lõhmus

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1808–1814, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.191

• grants 8420, 9007, Estonian Nanotechnology Competence Centre (EU29996), ERDF “TRIBOFILM” 3.2.1101.12-0028, “IRGLASS” 3.2.1101.12-0027, “Nano-Com” 3.2.1101.12-0010 and IUT2-25 project "Structure sensitive interaction mechanisms in functional materials at nanoscale". The authors are also grateful for