Functional diversity of resilin in Arthropoda

• Jan Michels,
• Esther Appel and
• Stanislav N. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1241–1259, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.115

Surface coating affects behavior of metallic nanoparticles in a biological environment

• Darija Domazet Jurašin,
• Marija Ćurlin,
• Ivona Capjak,
• Tea Crnković,
• Marija Lovrić,
• Michal Babič,
• Daniel Horák,
• Ivana Vinković Vrček and
• Srećko Gajović

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 246–262, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.23

• solutions (Murdock et al. [53]). However, conventional DLS has its limitations. The main interferences in the biological matrix originate from the light scattering of different biological components and a mixture of different sizes of fractal-shaped agglomerates. In our model BMP system, the effect of BSA

Optimized design of a nanostructured SPCE-based multipurpose biosensing platform formed by ferrocene-tethered electrochemically-deposited cauliflower-shaped gold nanoparticles

• Wicem Argoubi,
• Maroua Saadaoui,
• Sami Ben Aoun and
• Noureddine Raouafi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1840–1852, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.187

• fractal gold nanostructures for electrodes endowed with very large surface areas useful for the sensitive detection of apolipoprotein E, which is a protein biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease [18]. The preparation of the platforms was achieved in a straightforward manner in few steps. Firstly, home-prepared

Exploiting the hierarchical morphology of single-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotube films for highly hydrophobic coatings

• Francesco De Nicola,
• Paola Castrucci,
• Manuela Scarselli,
• Francesca Nanni,
• Ilaria Cacciotti and
• Maurizio De Crescenzi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 353–360, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.34

• ; Introduction In general, the surface morphology [1] is a crucial parameter for the fabrication of artificial hydrophobic surfaces and may be enhanced especially by hierarchical [2][3][4][5][6][7] and fractal structures [7][8], possibly allowing for the formation of air pockets to further impede the penetration

Multifunctional layered magnetic composites

• Maria Siglreitmeier,
• Baohu Wu,
• Tina Kollmann,
• Martin Neubauer,
• Gergely Nagy,
• Dietmar Schwahn,
• Vitaliy Pipich,
• Damien Faivre,
• Dirk Zahn,
• Andreas Fery and
• Helmut Cölfen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 134–148, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.13

• about Rg = 0.58 μm. At larger Q (>0.1 nm−1) scattering is determined from individual magnetite nanoparticles of Rg 7.9 nm showing a Q−3 power law indicating a mass fractal structure (a structure containing branching and crosslinking to form a 3D network). The diameter D of the magnetite particles can

Mammalian cell growth on gold nanoparticle-decorated substrates is influenced by the nanoparticle coating

• Christina Rosman,
• Sebastien Pierrat,
• Marco Tarantola,
• David Schneider,
• Eva Sunnick,
• Andreas Janshoff and
• Carsten Sönnichsen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2479–2488, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.257

• impedance spectrum of an uncovered ECIS electrode can be best described by an ohmic resistor Rbulk in series with a constant phase element (CPE) accounting for the capacitive properties of the fractal electrodes (Supporting Information File 1, Figure S4). Adhesion followed by spreading and eventually the

On the structure of grain/interphase boundaries and interfaces

• K. Anantha Padmanabhan and
• Herbert Gleiter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1603–1615, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.172

• ) The fractal nature of microstructures has been well documented [2][3], including that present in a nano-glass [14]. Is it possible that the development of long-range periodicity/quasi-periodicity and crystalline/quasi-crystalline structure corresponds to the “strange attractors” of the Chaos theory

Silica nanoparticles are less toxic to human lung cells when deposited at the air–liquid interface compared to conventional submerged exposure

• Alicja Panas,
• Andreas Comouth,
• Harald Saathoff,
• Thomas Leisner,
• Marco Al-Rawi,
• Michael Simon,
• Gunnar Seemann,
• Olaf Dössel,
• Sonja Mülhopt,
• Hanns-Rudolf Paur,
• Susanne Fritsch-Decker,
• Carsten Weiss and
• Silvia Diabaté

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1590–1602, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.171

• Manoharan et al. [27] suggested that the particles are configured in spherical packings with structures that minimize the second moment of the mass distribution. Hence we treated large agglomerates as compact spherical clusters with volume fractal dimensions close to 3. Furthermore we assumed a volume

Surface topography and contact mechanics of dry and wet human skin

• Alexander E. Kovalev,
• Kirstin Dening,
• Bo N. J. Persson and
• Stanislav N. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1341–1348, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.147

• dashed line denoted by b is the power spectra used in the calculations presented below in Figure 9), and correspond to a self-affine fractal surface with a fractal dimension of Df = 3 – H = 2.14 in the AFM region, a total surface area of Atot = 1.3A0 (where A0 is the nominal or projected surface area

Fibrillar adhesion with no clusterisation: Functional significance of material gradient along adhesive setae of insects

• Stanislav N. Gorb and
• Alexander E. Filippov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 837–845, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.95

• [17][18]. Rigid surface of the substrate, where the fibers attach to, has semi-fractal structure with given Fourier spectrum and amplitude of roughness [8]. It can be simulated similar to the approach we previously used in [8] by the self-affine fractal surface given by real part of with scaling

• gradient on contact adhesion problem. Our numerical procedure is organized as follows. We take originally unperturbed arrays of parallel fibers attached to the horizontal hard base, bring them into contact with numerically generated rigid fractal surface and solve numerically differential equations of

• ). Let us remind that first stage (attachment) of our numerical experiment is organized as follows. We take originally unperturbed arrays of parallel fibers and put them on the horizontal rigid base, at fixed distance from numerically generated rigid fractal surface. The fibers adapt to the surface

The surface microstructure of cusps and leaflets in rabbit and mouse heart valves

• Xia Ye,
• Bharat Bhushan,
• Ming Zhou and
• Weining Lei

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 622–629, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.73

• . According to Adamson and Gast [27], a model of the relationship between superhydrophobicity and the hierarchical structure could be created. Since the hierarchical structure on the surface of a valve is so similar to the fractal structure described by the Koch curve [28], the fractal structure equation can

• be used to calculate the fractal roughness factor. By changing the roughness factor, the relationship between the contact angle of the rough surface θf and that of the smooth surface θY can be described by Equation 1: Where f1 and f2 are the surface area fractions of solid-liquid and gas-liquid on

• the rough surface respectively, f1 + f2 = 1. (L/l)D−2 is the surface roughness fractor. L and l are the extremal dimensions of the upper and lower limits of the fractal surface respectively. D is the fractal cone. For the heart valves, L and l correspond to the diameter of the cobblestones and the

Single-asperity contact mechanics with positive and negative work of adhesion: Influence of finite-range interactions and a continuum description for the squeeze-out of wetting fluids

• Martin H. Müser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 419–437, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.50

Probing the plasmonic near-field by one- and two-photon excited surface enhanced Raman scattering

• Katrin Kneipp and
• Harald Kneipp

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 834–842, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.94

• aggregates of nanoparticle of various sizes and shapes reaching from dimers [4][5][6][7], and trimers [8] to selfsimilar structures formed by silver- or gold nanospheres [9]. High local fields can also exist in fractal films or cavities of these noble metals [10]. The recently reported super-resolution

• from 100 nm aggregates to larger fractal silver structures that were several micrometers in size show that enhancement factors on the order of 1014 in non-resonant SERS are independent of the size and shape of the aggregates. However, they critically depend on the gap size between the nanoparticles