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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

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  • glycol [6], phytic acid [7], phenylenediamine [8], ammonium citrate [9], citric acid [10], ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid [11], carbon nanotubes [12], and graphite [13]. Additionally, graphite, nanodiamonds, and activated carbon can be applied as precursor for the fabrication of CDs [14]. Meanwhile
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Published 05 Oct 2022

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

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Published 08 Sep 2022

Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond for nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging applications

  • Alberto Boretti,
  • Lorenzo Rosa,
  • Jonathan Blackledge and
  • Stefania Castelletto

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2128–2151, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.207

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  • methods, this review presents a survey of the latest advances in NV center nano-MRI. Keywords: nanodiamonds; nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging (nano-MRI); nitrogen-vacancy center; optically detected magnetic resonance; Review Introduction Spin echoes and free induction decays were first detected in
  • -suited for medical applications and must undergo the hyperpolarization process. Some methods are proposed in [18], albeit not yet applied in biomedical samples, using nanodiamonds (NDs) as a contrast agent to improve the SNR in conventional MRI. While NDs have been recently applied as theranostic
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Published 04 Nov 2019

Kelvin probe force microscopy of the nanoscale electrical surface potential barrier of metal/semiconductor interfaces in ambient atmosphere

  • Petr Knotek,
  • Tomáš Plecháček,
  • Jan Smolík,
  • Petr Kutálek,
  • Filip Dvořák,
  • Milan Vlček,
  • Jiří Navrátil and
  • Čestmír Drašar

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1401–1411, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.138

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  • than 10 nm were detected in the map of the surface contact potential. A higher lift height led to a vanishing of the contrast and a lower value resulted in a decrease in reproducibility (data not shown). The results are in a good agreement with the KPFM contrast of nanodiamonds on a Si substrate, where
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Published 15 Jul 2019

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

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  • for various metal-free C-networks applied to the process (Figure 2B). The λ value measured for CTF5 is even higher than that recorded for selected classes of mesoporous carbon nanomaterials, i.e., nanodiamonds (NDs) [39][40] and 3D foams (N–C/CNT) [34], that are commonly quoted as benchmark metal-free
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Published 12 Jun 2019

Polydopamine-coated Au nanorods for targeted fluorescent cell imaging and photothermal therapy

  • Boris N. Khlebtsov,
  • Andrey M. Burov,
  • Timofey E. Pylaev and
  • Nikolai G. Khlebtsov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 794–803, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.79

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  • ]. Since that discovery, PDA has received extensive attention owing to its extremely attractive properties. Owing to its simplicity, PDA-assisted coating has been intensively applied for various nanoparticles including nanodiamonds [26], polymeric drug carriers [27], AuNRs [28][29][30][31][32][33][34
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Published 01 Apr 2019

Graphene–graphite hybrid epoxy composites with controllable workability for thermal management

  • Idan Levy,
  • Eyal Merary Wormser,
  • Maxim Varenik,
  • Matat Buzaglo,
  • Roey Nadiv and
  • Oren Regev

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 95–104, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.9

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  • ≈100 nm) [26] as fillers [10][12][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]; it has been shown that these materials enhance the TC of polymer-based TIMs by almost two orders of magnitude [25]. These results are superior over other carbon allotropes such as nanodiamonds [38][39]. With that being said
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Published 08 Jan 2019

Nanotribology

  • Enrico Gnecco,
  • Susan Perkin,
  • Andrea Vanossi and
  • Ernst Meyer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2330–2331, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.217

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  • including nanodiamonds [1] and novel materials such as nitrogen-doped graphene oxide [2] and imidazolium-based ionic liquids [3] used as additives to mineral oils. Standard large-scale applications to steel surfaces, but also to a material of key importance in micro- and nanoelecromechanical systems, i.e
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Published 28 Aug 2018

Cathodoluminescence as a probe of the optical properties of resonant apertures in a metallic film

  • Kalpana Singh,
  • Evgeniy Panchenko,
  • Babak Nasr,
  • Amelia Liu,
  • Lukas Wesemann,
  • Timothy J. Davis and
  • Ann Roberts

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1491–1500, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.140

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  • GaAs nanowires [46], modes of single and pairs of AlGaAs disks [47], the optical properties of quantum discs of GaN/AlN in GaN nanowires [48] and various modes of gold nanodecahedra [49]. The potential of CL used in transmission to observe various colour centres in nanodiamonds has also been
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Published 18 May 2018

A comparative study of the nanoscale and macroscale tribological attributes of alumina and stainless steel surfaces immersed in aqueous suspensions of positively or negatively charged nanodiamonds

  • Colin K. Curtis,
  • Antonin Marek,
  • Alex I. Smirnov and
  • Jacqueline Krim

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2045–2059, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.205

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  • the nanoscale and macroscale tribological attributes of alumina and stainless steel surfaces immersed in aqueous suspensions of positively (hydroxylated) or negatively (carboxylated) charged nanodiamonds (ND). Immersion in −ND suspensions resulted in a decrease in the macroscopic friction coefficients
  • surface aggregates in regions where they are present. The AFM and SEM data are consistent with the results from nanodiamond seeding literature [46], where it has been reported that the particle attachment density can, for example, vary from very low (108 cm−2) for hydrogen treated nanodiamonds (+ND) to
  • very high (1011 cm−2) for oxidized nanodiamonds (−ND) on AlN substrates [47]. The data are also consistent with a report on a formation of ND clusters of ca. 23 nm in diameter on SiO2 surfaces exposed to ND dispersions [48]. Clusters of this size are large enough to separate the surfaces employed for
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Carbon nano-onions as fluorescent on/off modulated nanoprobes for diagnostics

  • Stefania Lettieri,
  • Marta d’Amora,
  • Adalberto Camisasca,
  • Alberto Diaspro and
  • Silvia Giordani

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1878–1888, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.188

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  • sensing applications [7], multishell fullerenes, known as carbon nano-onions (CNOs) [8][9], prepared by thermal annealing of detonation nanodiamonds (d-NDs) [10], are an attractive class of carbon nanomaterials (CNMs) for imaging, diagnostic and therapeutic applications, due to their unique properties
  • , 124.50, 117.67, 115.33, 113.93, 112.67, 19.84, 13.65. See Supporting Information File 1, Figure S4. HRMS-ESI m/z: [M+H]+ calcd for C39H41N4OBF2, 630.3341; found, 630.3363. p-CNOs The synthesis of small, pristine carbon nano-onions (p-CNOs) was performed by thermal annealing of detonation nanodiamonds (d
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Uptake and intracellular accumulation of diamond nanoparticles – a metabolic and cytotoxic study

  • Antonín Brož,
  • Lucie Bačáková,
  • Pavla Štenclová,
  • Alexander Kromka and
  • Štěpán Potocký

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1649–1657, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.165

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  • Republic 10.3762/bjnano.8.165 Abstract Diamond nanoparticles, known as nanodiamonds (NDs), possess several medically significant properties. Having a tailorable and easily accessible surface gives them great potential for use in sensing and imaging applications and as a component of cell growth scaffolds
  • are tailorable on demand [2]. This work investigates the use of diamond nanomaterials, or nanodiamonds (NDs), especially in life sciences, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine [3][4][5][6]. Diamond is biocompatible [7][8], and for advanced biomedical applications, it is particularly promising
  • in cultures exposed and unexposed to photoluminescent nanodiamonds. This positive effect can be attributed to the fact that the mechanism of the ND uptake was clathrin-mediated endocytosis, that is, a physiological cellular mechanism for internalization of various bioactive substances from the
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Published 10 Aug 2017

Cationic PEGylated polycaprolactone nanoparticles carrying post-operation docetaxel for glioma treatment

  • Cem Varan and
  • Erem Bilensoy

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1446–1456, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.144

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  • -time and also enhanced the concentration of BCNU in the brain tumor area [27]. In addition to drug delivery, core–shell nanoparticles such as magnetic nanoparticles [28], quantum dots [29], nanodiamonds [30], nanocrystals [31] and iron oxide nanoparticles [32] are studied as imaging and detection
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The longstanding challenge of the nanocrystallization of 1,3,5-trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX)

  • Florent Pessina and
  • Denis Spitzer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 452–466, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.49

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  • preexpansion pressure needed to guarantee a fine spraying. Besides the innovative applications of energetic nanomaterials, such as the synthesis of ultrafine nanodiamonds [116][117] and reactivity enhancement [10], the versatility of SFE allows the crystallization at a sub-micrometer or nanometer scales of a
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Multiwalled carbon nanotube hybrids as MRI contrast agents

  • Nikodem Kuźnik and
  • Mateusz M. Tomczyk

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1086–1103, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.102

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  • investigations on applications of carbon nanomaterials in bioimaging [4][5][6][7][8][9], e.g., graphene, graphite oxide with manganese residues [10], gadolinium anchored on fullerenes [11], and nanodiamonds [12]. Sitharaman’s and Wilson’s discoveries of gadonanotubes, such as ultrashort single-wall carbon
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Published 27 Jul 2016

Facile synthesis of water-soluble carbon nano-onions under alkaline conditions

  • Gaber Hashem Gaber Ahmed,
  • Rosana Badía Laíño,
  • Josefa Angela García Calzón and
  • Marta Elena Díaz García

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 758–766, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.67

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  • sensors. The more popular and extensively investigated carbon-based nanomaterials include carbon dots (C-dots), fullerenes, nanotubes and graphene, while others, such as nanodiamonds and carbon onions, stayed forgotten for a long time, in spite of the fact that these carbon nanoparticles (C-NPs) were
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Published 27 May 2016

Correction: Carbon-based smart nanomaterials in biomedicine and neuroengineering

  • Antonina M. Monaco and
  • Michele Giugliano

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 499–499, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.51

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  • Computer Science, University of Sheffield, S1 4DP Sheffield, UK 10.3762/bjnano.6.51 Keywords: carbon nanotubes; electrophysiology; graphene; microelectrodes; nanodiamonds; nanotechnology; neuroengineering; neuronal cultures; neuroscience; Correction for the Acknowledgement section, the correct text
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Carbon nano-onions (multi-layer fullerenes): chemistry and applications

  • Juergen Bartelmess and
  • Silvia Giordani

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1980–1998, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.207

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  • ], carbon nanohorns [5], nanodiamonds [6] and graphene [7]. Multi-shell fullerenes, known as carbon nano-onions (CNOs) and discovered by Ugarte in 1992 [8], are structured by concentric shells of carbon atoms. Over the last years, different methods for their synthesis have been developed and their
  • common method, for the preparation of small CNOs consisting of approx. 5–8 carbon shells, uses nanodiamonds as starting material. Nanodiamonds can be converted to graphitic CNOs by heat treatment (Figure 1) [11][12] or by electron radiation [13]. Another method is the formation of CNOs by arc discharge
  • natural resource, which was pyrolized and then subsequently treated with concentrated nitric acid [17]. Nowadays, CNOs can be produced in gram-scale quantities by treatment of commercially available nanodiamonds, or by the combustion of naphthalene [18]. This good availability of different CNO materials
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Carbon-based smart nanomaterials in biomedicine and neuroengineering

  • Antonina M. Monaco and
  • Michele Giugliano

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1849–1863, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.196

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  • in brain implants, are within reach thanks to the advancements in nanotechnology. In particular, carbon-based nanostructured materials, such as graphene, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and nanodiamonds (NDs), have demonstrated to be highly promising materials for designing and fabricating nanoelectrodes and
  • ; electrophysiology; graphene; microelectrodes; nanodiamonds; nanotechnology; neuroengineering; neuronal cultures; neuroscience; Introduction Over the past few years, the gap between materials sciences and biology has increasingly narrowed. This has enabled substantial progress within interdisciplinary approaches
  • stimulation and functional scaffolds for tissue engineering). Nanodiamonds (NDs): As a result of the complete sp3 hybridisation of its carbon atoms and its characteristic tetrahedral configuration, diamond shows interesting and peculiar properties such as an extreme hardness, low friction coefficient, high
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Silicon and germanium nanocrystals: properties and characterization

  • Ivana Capan,
  • Alexandra Carvalho and
  • José Coutinho

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1787–1794, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.189

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  • passivation, although in the chlorinated Si NCs some fall off the narrower gap. Functionalisation with chlorine, nitrogen and fluorine was also found to be an effective way to control the bandgap of nanodiamonds [68]. Nanocrystals functionalized with organic groups have so far only been considered in a
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Nanodiamond-DGEA peptide conjugates for enhanced delivery of doxorubicin to prostate cancer

  • Amanee D Salaam,
  • Patrick Hwang,
  • Roberus McIntosh,
  • Hadiyah N Green,
  • Ho-Wook Jun and
  • Derrick Dean

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 937–945, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.107

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  • targeted drug delivery systems can provide an avenue to overcome these issues. Nanodiamonds (ND), in particular, have been researched over the past five years for use in various drug delivery systems but minimal work has been done that incorporates targeting capability. In this study, a novel targeted drug
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Encapsulation of nanoparticles into single-crystal ZnO nanorods and microrods

  • Jinzhang Liu,
  • Marco Notarianni,
  • Llew Rintoul and
  • Nunzio Motta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 485–493, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.56

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  • functional nanoparticles of other materials could be an interesting platform for various applications. We studied the encapsulation of nanoparticles into single-crystal ZnO nanorods by exploiting the crystal growth of ZnO in aqueous solution. Two types of nanodiamonds with mean diameters of 10 nm and 40 nm
  • micro-photoluminescence measurement on a single ZnO nanorod containing luminescent nanodiamonds and the spectrum has a different shape from that of naked nanodiamonds, revealing the cavity effect of ZnO nanorod. Keywords: crystal growth; encapsulation; nanoparticles; photoluminescence; ZnO nanorods
  • . Thus the options for lasing wavelength and resonant mode orders are limited. There is a large variety of nanoparticles that have various luminescent properties and potential applications. Luminescent nanoparticles including semiconductor quantum dots, nanodiamonds (NDs) with nitrogen-vacancy (NV
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Size variation of infrared vibrational spectra from molecules to hydrogenated diamond nanocrystals: a density functional theory study

  • Mudar A. Abdulsattar

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 262–268, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.28

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  • experimentally in nanodiamonds, such as the lines 1132, 1134, 1140, 1150, and 1240 cm−1 in references [2][4][5][7][8], respectively. These lines all belong partially to the originally distorted bulk diamond line at 1332 cm−1, which appears at different positions in different sizes of nanocrystals. C–H vibrations
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Diamond nanophotonics

  • Katja Beha,
  • Helmut Fedder,
  • Marco Wolfer,
  • Merle C. Becker,
  • Petr Siyushev,
  • Mohammad Jamali,
  • Anton Batalov,
  • Christopher Hinz,
  • Jakob Hees,
  • Lutz Kirste,
  • Harald Obloh,
  • Etienne Gheeraert,
  • Boris Naydenov,
  • Ingmar Jakobi,
  • Florian Dolde,
  • Sébastien Pezzagna,
  • Daniel Twittchen,
  • Matthew Markham,
  • Daniel Dregely,
  • Harald Giessen,
  • Jan Meijer,
  • Fedor Jelezko,
  • Christoph E. Nebel,
  • Rudolf Bratschitsch,
  • Alfred Leitenstorfer and
  • Jörg Wrachtrup

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 895–908, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.100

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  • incorporate color centers based on nickel and tungsten, in situ into diamond using microwave-plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The fabrication of silicon–vacancy centers in nanodiamonds by microwave-plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition is discussed in addition. Keywords: CVD diamond doping
  • mirror composed of TiO2/SiO2 layer pairs is fabricated by magnetron radio-frequency sputtering. In a second step, nanodiamonds with a diameter of less than 20 nm (Figure 8b) are spin coated onto the dielectric mirror. The area density of the nanocrystals may be chosen by the concentration of the
  • color centers in small nanodiamond crystals with diameters well below the wavelength, guaranteeing an efficient light extraction. Moreover, single nanodiamonds can be implemented into dielectric cavities enhancing the efficiency, as demonstrated in Section 4. We will discuss our approaches to
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Enhancement of the critical current density in FeO-coated MgB2 thin films at high magnetic fields

  • Andrei E. Surdu,
  • Hussein H. Hamdeh,
  • Imad A. Al-Omari,
  • David J. Sellmyer,
  • Alexei V. Socrovisciuc,
  • Andrei A. Prepelita,
  • Ezgi T. Koparan,
  • Ekrem Yanmaz,
  • Valery V. Ryazanov,
  • Horst Hahn and
  • Anatolie S. Sidorenko

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 809–813, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.89

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  • SiC [5], nanodiamonds [6], etc. As we can conclude from these works, the highest value of the critical current in the zero magnetic field is Jc ~ 106 A/cm2 in a temperature range of 5–25 K, and the highest value at a magnetic field of 8 T is Jc ~ 104 A/cm2 at 4.2 K; no significant increase was
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