A novel approach to pulsed laser deposition of platinum catalyst on carbon particles for use in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

• Bogusław Budner,
• Wojciech Tokarz,
• Sławomir Dyjak,
• Andrzej Czerwiński,
• Bartosz Bartosewicz and
• Bartłomiej Jankiewicz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 190–204, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.19

• Boguslaw Budner Wojciech Tokarz Slawomir Dyjak Andrzej Czerwinski Bartosz Bartosewicz Bartlomiej Jankiewicz Institute of Optoelectronics, Military University of Technology, 2 Kaliskiego Str., 00-908 Warsaw, Poland Łukasiewicz Research Network - Mościcki Industrial Chemistry Research Institute

• (ICRI), 8 Rydygiera Str., 01-793 Warsaw, Poland Institute of Chemistry, Military University of Technology, 2 Kaliskiego Str., 00-908 Warsaw, Poland Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, 1 Pasteura Str., 02-093 Warsaw, Poland 10.3762/bjnano.14.19 Abstract The research undertaken aimed to develop

• Chemistry Research Institute (ICRI) in Warsaw. In the first stage, the efficiency of electrochemical oxygen reduction was measured using the rotating disc-ring electrode (RRDE) technique. The measurements were conducted in a four-electrode electrochemical cell using a RRDE (Pine Instruments, United States

Structural, optical, and bioimaging characterization of carbon quantum dots solvothermally synthesized from o-phenylenediamine

• Zoran M. Marković,
• Milica D. Budimir,
• Martin Danko,
• Dušan D. Milivojević,
• Pavel Kubat,
• Danica Z. Zmejkoski,
• Vladimir B. Pavlović,
• Marija M. Mojsin,
• Milena J. Stevanović and
• Biljana M. Todorović Marković

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 165–174, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.17

• Belgrade, Serbia Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, 84 541 Bratislava, Slovakia J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Dolejškova 3, 182 23, Praha 8, Czech Republic Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, Nemanjina 6

• different effectiveness on bacteria and tested cells (adenocarcinomic human alveolar basal epithelial cells-A549 and mouse embryonic fibroblast cell line-NIH/3T3) [18]. By comparing the results of these two investigations, we concluded that the surface chemistry of the encapsulated CQDs in polymer

Combining physical vapor deposition structuration with dealloying for the creation of a highly efficient SERS platform

• Adrien Chauvin,
• Walter Puglisi,
• Damien Thiry,
• Cristina Satriano,
• Rony Snyders and
• Carla Bittencourt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 83–94, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.10

• Adrien Chauvin Walter Puglisi Damien Thiry Cristina Satriano Rony Snyders Carla Bittencourt Plasma-Surface Interaction Chemistry, University of Mons, 23 Place du Parc, 7000 Mons, Belgium Chemistry of Surfaces, Interfaces and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, 50

Solvent-induced assembly of mono- and divalent silica nanoparticles

• Bin Liu,
• Etienne Duguet and
• Serge Ravaine

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 52–60, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.6

• Bin Liu Etienne Duguet Serge Ravaine Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, CRPP, UMR 5031, 33600 Pessac, France School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252059, P. R. China Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, ICMCB, UMR 5026, 33600 Pessac, France 10.3762/bjnano.14.6 Abstract

Gap-directed chemical lift-off lithographic nanoarchitectonics for arbitrary sub-micrometer patterning

• Chang-Ming Wang,
• Hong-Sheng Chan,
• Chia-Li Liao,
• Che-Wei Chang and
• Wei-Ssu Liao

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 34–44, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.4

• Chang-Ming Wang Hong-Sheng Chan Chia-Li Liao Che-Wei Chang Wei-Ssu Liao Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan 10.3762/bjnano.14.4 Abstract We introduce a unique soft lithographic operation that exploits stamp roof collapse-induced gaps to selectively remove an

Two-step single-reactor synthesis of oleic acid- or undecylenic acid-stabilized magnetic nanoparticles by thermal decomposition

• Mykhailo Nahorniak,
• Pamela Pasetto,
• Jean-Marc Greneche,
• Volodymyr Samaryk,
• Sandy Auguste,
• Anthony Rousseau,
• Nataliya Nosova and
• Serhii Varvarenko

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 11–22, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.2

• Mykhailo Nahorniak Pamela Pasetto Jean-Marc Greneche Volodymyr Samaryk Sandy Auguste Anthony Rousseau Nataliya Nosova Serhii Varvarenko Organic Chemistry department, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Bandera street 12, 79013, Lviv, Ukraine Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy

• of a given amount of a higher acid (OA or UA) in 1-octadecene. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 44: Additional figures. Acknowledgements Dr. Małgorzata Świętek (Institute of macromolecular chemistry CAS, Prague, Czech Republic) is gratefully acknowledged for the language revision

Electrical and optical enhancement of ITO/Mo bilayer thin films via laser annealing

• Abdelbaki Hacini,
• Ahmad Hadi Ali,
• Nurul Nadia Adnan and
• Nafarizal Nayan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1589–1595, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.133

• Abdelbaki Hacini Ahmad Hadi Ali Nurul Nadia Adnan Nafarizal Nayan Laser and Semiconductor Technology Research Group, COR PDSR, Department of Physics and Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology, Pagoh Educational Hub, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, 84600 Pagoh, Johor, Malaysia

Single-step extraction of small-diameter single-walled carbon nanotubes in the presence of riboflavin

• Polina M. Kalachikova,
• Anastasia E. Goldt,
• Eldar M. Khabushev,
• Timofei V. Eremin,
• Timofei S. Zatsepin,
• Elena D. Obraztsova,
• Konstantin V. Larionov,
• Liubov Yu. Antipina,
• Pavel B. Sorokin and
• Albert G. Nasibulin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1564–1571, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.130

• University School of Chemical Engineering, Kemistintie 1, 02015, Espoo, Finland A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of RAS, 38 Vavilov Street, Moscow, 119991, Russia Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutskiy per., Dolgoprudny, 141701, Russia Department of Chemistry, M.V.Lomonosov

Non-stoichiometric magnetite as catalyst for the photocatalytic degradation of phenol and 2,6-dibromo-4-methylphenol – a new approach in water treatment

• Joanna Kisała,
• Anna Tomaszewska and
• Przemysław Kolek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1531–1540, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.126

• , ozonation, Fenton chemistry, and photocatalysis have been successfully used to remove persistent organic pollutants (POPs) or as a pre-treatment in conventional or biological methods [10]. Ozonation is an AOP technique that has been widely used to remove organic compounds such as drugs, pesticides

Structural studies and selected physical investigations of LiCoO₂ obtained by combustion synthesis

• Monika Michalska,
• Paweł Ławniczak,
• Tomasz Strachowski,
• Adam Ostrowski and
• Waldemar Bednarski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1473–1482, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.121

• Monika Michalska Pawel Lawniczak Tomasz Strachowski Adam Ostrowski Waldemar Bednarski Department of Chemistry and Physico-Chemical Processes, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15/2172, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic Łukasiewicz

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

• Biotechnology, Ganakbari, Ashulia, Savar, Dhaka-1349, Bangladesh Department of Chemistry, Jagannath University, Dhaka-1100, Bangladesh Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 10.3762/bjnano.13.120 Abstract The

Facile preparation of Au- and BODIPY-grafted lipid nanoparticles for synergized photothermal therapy

• Yuran Wang,
• Xudong Li,
• Haijun Chen and
• Yu Gao

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1432–1444, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.118

• Yuran Wang Xudong Li Haijun Chen Yu Gao Cancer Metastasis Alert and Prevention Centre, College of Chemistry and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Cancer Metastasis Chemoprevention and Chemotherapy, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, Fujian, China College of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Molecule

Dry under water: air retaining properties of large-scale elastomer foils covered with mushroom-shaped surface microstructures

• Matthias Mail,
• Stefan Walheim,
• Thomas Schimmel,
• Wilhelm Barthlott,
• Stanislav N. Gorb and
• Lars Heepe

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1370–1379, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.113

• chemistry of the hierarchically structured surfaces water cannot penetrate and air remains trapped in between the structures [1], which is indicated by a silvery shine of the submerged surface (See Figure 1a). For technical applications, the Salvinia effect bears an immense potential, as air layers kept

Straight roads into nowhere – obvious and not-so-obvious biological models for ferrophobic surfaces

• Wilfried Konrad,
• Christoph Neinhuis and
• Anita Roth-Nebelsick

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1345–1360, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.111

• from OpenStax, Blast Furnace Reactions, CC BY 4.0). Centre, right: a novel tuyère and a tuyère after a few weeks of usage; the lower parts extend into the blast furnace. (Figure 1a was reproduced from [16]. Accessible for free at https://openstax.org/books/chemistry-2e/pages/1-introduction (© 2019 P

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

• of Bi-based photocatalysts. Keywords: bismuth-based nanomaterials; environmental remediation; heterojunction formation; photocatalysis; Introduction Nanomaterials photocatalysis is a “green” integrative technique that combines physics, chemistry, and materials science with chemical engineering to

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

• studies will give further impetus to the application of CPs in spectral dynamics. Conclusion and Outlook Probe technology has been applied in physics, chemistry, biology, and nanotechnology in the past few years, and outstanding results have been achieved. Metal, carbon nanotube, and colloidal probes have

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

• , known as “titanicones”. We investigate in detail the chemistry between the most common Ti precursors, namely titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) and tetrakis(dimethylamido)titanium (Ti(DMA)4), and ethylene glycol (EG) and glycerol (GL) as the organic precursors. We analyse the impact of the substrate on the

• growth could be achieved. Keywords: density functional theory (DFT) studies; double reactions; surface chemistry; titanicone; Introduction Molecular layer deposition (MLD), a thin film deposition technique, has attracted significant attention in recent years as a suitable approach for the deposition of

• ALD, in MLD the deposition chemistry can be extended by including organic precursors, leading to the deposition of hybrid organic–inorganic MLD films [3][9]. Two organic precursors can also be employed to deposit pure organic MLD films, such as polymers [10][11][12]. Similar to ALD, MLD enables the

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

• several pregnant women causing fetal malformation [7], owing to the trace presence of teratogenic (S)-thalidomide in sedative (R)-thalidomide [8]. Hence, chirality detection keeps attracting much attention in the fields of chemistry, biology, and medicine. Especially for the pharmaceutical and food

• generated by polypyrrole (PPy) and Trp [127]. Intrinsic chiral metal crystals Until relatively recently, metals were ignored as potential substrates for asymmetric surface chemistry since metals always show highly symmetric and achiral bulk structures with unexposed chiral surfaces [128][129]. Sykes and co

Application of nanoarchitectonics in moist-electric generation

• Jia-Cheng Feng and
• Hong Xia

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1185–1200, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.99

• from [55] (“Towards Watt-scale hydroelectric energy harvesting by Ti3C2Tx-based transpiration-driven electrokinetic power generators“, © 2022 J. Bae et al., published by Royal Society of Chemistry, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License, https

• ://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). This content is not subject to CC BY 4.0. (a) Cross-sectional SEM image of GO’s nanoscale network structure. Figure 5a was republished with permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry from [63] (“Electric power generation via asymmetric moisturizing of graphene oxide for

• ) pushing/releasing type, and (c) dipping type (c) of water motion active transducers. Figure 6a–c were republished with permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry from [75] (“An effective energy harvesting method from a natural water motion active transducer” by Kwon, Soon-Hyung et al., Energy Environ

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

• Aisha Kanwal Naheed Bibi Sajjad Hyder Arif Muhammad Hao Ren Jiangtao Liu Zhongli Lei Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, 710119, China Department of Chemistry, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University

• their functional properties [5][6]. These exceptional optical and physicochemical properties make them ideal for transdisciplinary research. Fluorescent CDs can be manufactured using inexpensive, naturally rich carbon sources in an environmentally friendly manner. By adjusting the surface chemistry of

Electrocatalytic oxygen reduction activity of AgCoCu oxides on reduced graphene oxide in alkaline media

• Iyyappan Madakannu,
• Indrajit Patil,
• Bhalchandra Kakade and
• Kasibhatta Kumara Ramanatha Datta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1020–1029, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.89

• Iyyappan Madakannu Indrajit Patil Bhalchandra Kakade Kasibhatta Kumara Ramanatha Datta Functional Nanomaterials Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur – 603203, Tamil Nadu, India Department of Chemistry

• atomic-level manipulation using established materials chemistry concepts towards the assembly of functional nanoarchitectonics [25][26][27]. The assembly of nanoscale objects through combination and in situ growth routes, leading to high-performance nanoarchitectonics, is an interesting strategy. An

• , materials, characterization data, electrochemical measurements, water contact angle measurements, and comparison of reported ORR activities of Ag-based catalysts. Acknowledgements Authors thank SRM IST for providing Microwave reactor facility and DST-FIST, Department of Chemistry [SR/FST/CST-66/2015(c

Theoretical investigations of oxygen vacancy effects in nickel-doped zirconia from ab initio XANES spectroscopy at the oxygen K-edge

• Dick Hartmann Douma,
• Lodvert Tchibota Poaty,
• Alessio Lamperti,
• Stéphane Kenmoe,
• Abdulrafiu Tunde Raji,
• Alberto Debernardi and
• Bernard M’Passi-Mabiala

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 975–985, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.85

• , Unit of Agrate Brianza, via C. Olivetti 2, 20864 Agrate Brianza (MB), Italy Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätstr. 2, D-45141 Essen, Germany Department of Physics, College of Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET), University of South Africa (UNISA

Interaction between honeybee mandibles and propolis

• Leonie Saccardi,
• Franz Brümmer,
• Jonas Schiebl,
• Oliver Schwarz,
• Alexander Kovalev and
• Stanislav Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 958–974, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.84

• chemistry, surface microstructures, an easy-to-break solid layer preventing strong bonding, or a fluid layer providing cohesion failure. Resin adhesion on stingless bees One example for possibly anti-adhesive surfaces that is especially relevant to this work, are Bornean stingless bees (Hymenoptera

• effect of surface chemistry on adhesion was excluded. First, washed mandibles fixed to glass slides, as described above (section “Investigation of propolis adhesion on mandibles”), were covered with a two-component dental wax (Affinis light body, ISO 4823, polyvinylsiloxane, Coltène Whaledent AG

• mandibles was of a similar magnitude to that measured on glass under fluid conditions (0.9 J/m2 [1]). It was shown before that the adhesion of propolis does not show a great dependence on the substrate material [1]. It is therefore unlikely that the surface chemistry of the bee cuticle alone is responsible

Design of a biomimetic, small-scale artificial leaf surface for the study of environmental interactions

• Miriam Anna Huth,
• Axel Huth,
• Lukas Schreiber and
• Kerstin Koch

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 944–957, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.83

• (e.g., applied surfactants) interactions on natural leaf surfaces, the chemical composition and the wetting behavior should be the same in both. Therefore, the morphology, chemistry, and wetting properties of natural and artificial surfaces with recrystallized wax structures were analyzed by scanning

• wax morphology and chemistry with those of the plants cultivated under laboratory conditions. The plants were sown by hand. The row spacing was approx. 35 cm and the grain spacing approx. 10 cm. Fertilizer was applied once with saltpeter granules (YaraLiva CALCINIT, Yara GmbH & Co. KG, Dülmen, Germany

• samples with wetting properties that are similar to that of the natural leaf. Wax chemistry Natural surface Next to the wax morphology, the wax chemistry of wheat leaves was analyzed, as it plays an important role in the functionality of the leaf surface. The extracted wheat wax was composed of alcohols

Bioselectivity of silk protein-based materials and their bio-inspired applications

• Hendrik Bargel,
• Vanessa T. Trossmann,
• Christoph Sommer and
• Thomas Scheibel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 902–921, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.81

• interactions (e.g., van der Waals forces), and adhesive chemistry of biopolymers (various types of glues) [5]. On the level of tissues, multiple cell types work together to perform complex tasks, based on their hierarchical arrangement governing the exchange of information between different cell types. To

• –Thr–Ser (LDTS) sequence in MAdCAM-1, and Ile–Asp–Ser (IDS) in VCAM-1 [19]. Another example of selective adhesion of cells expressing one type of integrin has been achieved by click chemistry to immobilize peptidomimetics of α5β1- or ανβ3-selective RGD peptides [45]. Two other commonly used adhesive