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

• [12][13][14]. Recently, nanoarchitectonics approaches have been used to fabricate various materials for energy-related applications, including carbon-based composites [15][16], Pt-based nanostructures and composites with carbon materials [17][18][19], and metal alloys deposited on TiO2 [20]. The most

Paper-based triboelectric nanogenerators and their applications: a review

• Jing Han,
• Nuo Xu,
• Yuchen Liang,
• Mei Ding,
• Junyi Zhai,
• Qijun Sun and
• Zhong Lin Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 151–171, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.12

• microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (µPADs) [57][58][59][60] and thin-film transistors (TFTs) [61][62][63][64][65] have been widely investigated. Recently, they have also been applied in various energy-related devices [66][67][68]. Although paper is intrinsically insulating, conductive materials (e.g

ZnO and MXenes as electrode materials for supercapacitor devices

• Ameen Uddin Ammar,
• Ipek Deniz Yildirim,
• Feray Bakan and
• Emre Erdem

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 49–57, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.4

• reader to see our recent mini-review about the current progress and future trends in materials development for supercapacitors [8]. It is important to point out that in terms of energy-related applications, the use of metal oxides is rather limited. An enhancement of the devices can only be achieved by

Selective detection of complex gas mixtures using point contacts: concept, method and tools

• Alexander P. Pospelov,
• Victor I. Belan,
• Dmytro O. Harbuz,
• Volodymyr L. Vakula,
• Lyudmila V. Kamarchuk,
• Yuliya V. Volkova and
• Gennadii V. Kamarchuk

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1631–1643, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.146

• point-contact resistance. These changes are displayed in the dependencies of the Yanson point contact parameters. In the case of classical Yanson point-contact spectroscopy studies of electron–phonon interaction in metals, the energy-related processes are described by the current–voltage characteristic

• of the Yanson point contacts and its derivatives. In our study of the exhaled breath, the energy-related processes can be seen as the temporal variations of the electric conductance of the point contact and plotted as a spectral profile of the exhaled breath. The fundamental properties of Yanson

Magnetic-field-assisted synthesis of anisotropic iron oxide particles: Effect of pH

• Andrey V. Shibaev,
• Petr V. Shvets,
• Darya E. Kessel,
• Roman A. Kamyshinsky,
• Anton S. Orekhov,
• Sergey S. Abramchuk,
• Alexei R. Khokhlov and
• Olga E. Philippova

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1230–1241, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.107

• University, A. Nevskogo ul. 14, 236041 Kaliningrad, Russia National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute,” Akademika Kurchatova pl. 1, 123182 Moscow, Russia Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology, Institutskiy per. 9, 141700 Dolgoprudniy, Russia Institute of Advanced Energy Related Nanomaterials, Ulm

Playing with covalent triazine framework tiles for improved CO₂ adsorption properties and catalytic performance

• Giulia Tuci,
• Andree Iemhoff,
• Housseinou Ba,
• Lapo Luconi,
• Andrea Rossin,
• Vasiliki Papaefthimiou,
• Regina Palkovits,
• Jens Artz,
• Cuong Pham-Huu and
• Giuliano Giambastiani

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1217–1227, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.121

• . Keywords: covalent triazine frameworks; CO2 adsorption; CO2/N2 selectivity; dehydrogenation catalysis; ionothermal conditions; Introduction Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in carbon-based nanomaterials as functional devices for energy-related applications [1]. Their unique properties

Scanning probe microscopy for energy-related materials

• Rüdiger Berger,
• Benjamin Grévin,
• Philippe Leclère and
• Yi Zhang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 132–134, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.12

• , investigated and optimized. Energy-related materials often include electrochemical reactions and (opto-)electronic transport phenomena at their interfaces. In particular, material properties on the nanometer scale play a major role. The understanding of these nanoscale phenomena occurring at material

Nanostructure-induced performance degradation of WO₃·nH₂O for energy conversion and storage devices

• Zhenyin Hai,
• Mohammad Karbalaei Akbari,
• Zihan Wei,
• Danfeng Cui,
• Chenyang Xue,
• Hongyan Xu,
• Philippe M. Heynderickx,
• Francis Verpoort and
• Serge Zhuiykov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2845–2854, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.265

• energy-related field is rapidly developing, the limits of 2D TMOs began to come clear and ways of chemical functionalization were developed to make them more suitable for practical applications [16][17][18]. However, comparably less attention has been paid to the comprehensive investigation of the

Surface energy of nanoparticles – influence of particle size and structure

• Dieter Vollath,
• Franz Dieter Fischer and
• David Holec

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2265–2276, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.211

• using Equation 5. Graph of Equation 6. Also in this case, a lower limit for the particle diameter exists (α = β = 1). Surface energy for gold nanoparticles as function of the particle diameter according to Gang et al. [26]. The insert shows the specific strain energy related to the particle surface

Ab initio study of adsorption and diffusion of lithium on transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

• Xiaoli Sun and
• Zhiguo Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2711–2718, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.270

• phase (Figure 1a), whereas M atoms are located at the octahedral/disordered octahedral centre of six S atoms in the 1T/1T' phase (Figure 1b,c). Some compounds are not stable in the 1T' phase, which will be relaxed to the 1T phase after relaxation. The energy related to the 2H phase per formula unit (f.u

Charge transfer from and to manganese phthalocyanine: bulk materials and interfaces

• Florian Rückerl,
• Daniel Waas,
• Bernd Büchner,
• Martin Knupfer,
• Dietrich R. T. Zahn,
• Francisc Haidu,
• Torsten Hahn and
• Jens Kortus

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1601–1615, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.160

• of the others [17][18]. Furthermore, the exciton binding energy related to the lowest electronic singlet excitation is somewhat larger compared to, e.g., CuPc [18][19][20][23]. In Table 1 we summarize these values in comparison to CuPc, the most prominent and most extensively investigated transition

Orientation of FePt nanoparticles on top of a-SiO₂/Si(001), MgO(001) and sapphire(0001): effect of thermal treatments and influence of substrate and particle size

• Martin Schilling,
• Paul Ziemann,
• Zaoli Zhang,
• Johannes Biskupek,
• Ute Kaiser and
• Ulf Wiedwald

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 591–604, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.52

• change of their random orientation. At this point, it is worth adding a general remark on the competition between surface-energy-related driving forces favoring certain facets during NP growth implying corresponding rotational symmetries and forces that are related to the particle–substrate interface

Structural and magnetic properties of iron nanowires and iron nanoparticles fabricated through a reduction reaction

• Marcin Krajewski,
• Wei Syuan Lin,
• Hong Ming Lin,
• Katarzyna Brzozka,
• Sabina Lewinska,
• Natalia Nedelko,
• Anna Slawska-Waniewska,
• Jolanta Borysiuk and
• Dariusz Wasik

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1652–1660, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.167

• features, which were mentioned before and also an enormous amount of lattice energy related to their high surface-to-volume ratios. Moreover, it is worth underlining that by changing the dimensions of nanostructures, it is possible to control the magnetic properties of these materials [9]. This opens the

Template-directed synthesis and characterization of microstructured ceramic Ce/ZrO₂@SiO₂ composite tubes

• Jörg J. Schneider and
• Meike Naumann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1152–1159, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.126

• acid–base and redox properties, which has led to numerous applications in catalysis, energy related studies (e.g., for solid fuel cells), in gas sensor technologies and in biochemistry [1][2][3]. Its high oxygen storage/release capacity is a result of the high reducibility of Ce4+ to Ce3+, which relies

Synthesis and electrochemical performance of Li₂Co_1−xM_xPO₄F (M = Fe, Mn) cathode materials

• Nellie R. Khasanova,
• Oleg A. Drozhzhin,
• Stanislav S. Fedotov,
• Darya A. Storozhilova,
• Rodion V. Panin and
• Evgeny V. Antipov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 860–867, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.97

• voltammetry supported a single-phase de/intercalation mechanism in the Li2Co0.9Mn0.1PO4F material. Keywords: energy related; fluorophosphates; high-energy cathode materials; high-voltage electrolyte; Li-ion batteries; nanomaterials; reversible capacity; Introduction In recent years the range of application

Modulation of defect-mediated energy transfer from ZnO nanoparticles for the photocatalytic degradation of bilirubin

• Tanujjal Bora,
• Karthik K. Lakshman,
• Soumik Sarkar,
• Abhinandan Makhal,
• Samim Sardar,
• Samir K. Pal and
• Joydeep Dutta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 714–725, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.81

• picosecond-resolved TCSPC studies, it was observed that the energy related to the defect-mediated photoluminescence from the ZnO nanoparticles that peaks at about 530 nm resonantly transfers to the BR molecules adsorbed at the surface via the Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) process: This leads to an

Energy-related nanomaterials

• Paul Ziemann and
• Alexei R. Khokhlov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 678–679, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.76

• Paul Ziemann Alexei R. Khokhlov Institute of Solid State Physics, Ulm University, D-89081 Ulm, Germany Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 10.3762/bjnano.4.76 Keywords: energy related; nanomaterials; The triple “generation, conversion and storage of energy

• energy triple “generation, conversion and storage” materials science contributes to stepwise improvements of functional efficiencies, which are based on optimizing energy-related materials. A well-known topic related to the transport of people and goods – an important subsector of human energy

• Academy of Sciences, financially supported by a recently completed BMBF-i program that supports the installation of a joint research infrastructure between German and Russian partners [4]. The contributions to the Thematic Series “Energy-related nanomaterials” exemplify the scientific outcome of this

Ultramicrosensors based on transition metal hexacyanoferrates for scanning electrochemical microscopy

• Maria A. Komkova,
• Angelika Holzinger,
• Andreas Hartmann,
• Alexei R. Khokhlov,
• Christine Kranz,
• Arkady A. Karyakin and
• Oleg G. Voronin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 649–654, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.72

• as sensors in scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) experiments for imaging of hydrogen peroxide evolution. Keywords: energy related; hydrogen peroxide; nanomaterials; nickel hexacyanoferrate; Prussian Blue; scanning electrochemical microscopy; ultramicroelectrodes; Introduction The detection

Large-scale atomistic and quantum-mechanical simulations of a Nafion membrane: Morphology, proton solvation and charge transport

• Pavel V. Komarov,
• Pavel G. Khalatur and
• Alexei R. Khokhlov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 567–587, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.65

• Pavel V. Komarov Pavel G. Khalatur Alexei R. Khokhlov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, RAS, Moscow 119991, Russia Department of Theoretical Physics, Tver State University, Tver 170002, Russia Institute for Advanced Energy Related Nanomaterials, Ulm University, Ulm D-89069, Germany Physics

Structural and thermoelectric properties of TMGa₃ (TM = Fe, Co) thin films

• Sebastian Schnurr,
• Ulf Wiedwald,
• Paul Ziemann,
• Valeriy Y. Verchenko and
• Andrei V. Shevelkov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 461–466, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.54

• ≤ 300 K. Keywords: amorphous metal films; energy related; intermetallic compounds; nanomaterials; Seebeck coefficient; thermoelectric properties; thin metal films; Introduction Intermetallic compounds usually behave as metals. In some cases, however, when a compound contains both, d- and p-block

Influence of the solvent on the stability of bis(terpyridine) structures on graphite

• Daniela Künzel and
• Axel Groß

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 269–277, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.29

• various network structures as a function of the chemical potential is derived yielding a sequence in agreement with the experiment. Keywords: computer simulations; energy related; force-field calculations; nanomaterials; solvation; Introduction The controlled formation of structured surfaces by the

Highly ordered ultralong magnetic nanowires wrapped in stacked graphene layers

• Abdel-Aziz El Mel,
• Jean-Luc Duvail,
• Eric Gautron,
• Wei Xu,
• Chang-Hwan Choi,
• Benoit Angleraud,
• Agnès Granier and
• Pierre-Yves Tessier

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 846–851, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.95

• , sensors, and energy-related devices [17][18][19]. The combination between the electrical properties of graphene and the magnetic properties of 1D ferromagnetic nanostructures would offer wide prospects for spintronic applications. Fabricating coaxial nanowires with ferromagnetic cores and graphene

Influence of water on the properties of an Au/Mpy/Pd metal/molecule/metal junction

• Jan Kučera and
• Axel Groß

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 384–393, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.44

• structure with every second water molecule bound to the metal surface via the oxygen atom. The other water molecules have one hydrogen atom either pointing away from the surface (Hup) or towards the surface (Hdown). In such an arrangement the adsorption energy related to one H2O in the gas phase is higher

Structural and magnetic properties of ternary Fe_1–xMn_xPt nanoalloys from first principles

• Markus E. Gruner and
• Peter Entel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 162–172, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.20

• the energy related to internal lattice defects, such as twin boundaries, by deliberate design of the alloy composition. This could effectively disfavor multiply twinned morphologies, while the resulting trends can be monitored on the electronic level in the framework of large scale density functional