A comprehensive review on electrospun nanohybrid membranes for wastewater treatment

• Senuri Kumarage,
• Imalka Munaweera and
• Nilwala Kottegoda

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 137–159, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.10

• /TMPTMS alone without surfactant. The sorbent membrane was regenerated by simply using 0.1 M HNO3 as a desorbing agent [62]. Electrospun nanohybrids have also been utilized to remove radioactive metals. Talebi et al. investigated the sorption of Th4+ and U6+ ions by an electrospun nanomembrane of a

• sunflower oil–water. The beeswax/PCL hybrid nanomembrane was then analyzed regarding sorption capacity and separation efficiency in gravity filtration. It showed higher sorption capacity for gingelly oil (25.17 g/g) and sunflower oil (31.05 g/g) than for petrol (19.38 g/g), kerosene (20.72 g/g) and diesel

• achieved. The membrane also showed antifouling properties and was reusable for several dye removing cycles [77]. Furthermore, Gopi and co-workers reported a PVDF electrospun nanomembrane functionalized with chitin nanowhiskers (ChNW) using a needleless electrospinning technique. ChNW transforms the

A review of defect engineering, ion implantation, and nanofabrication using the helium ion microscope

• Frances I. Allen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 633–664, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.52

• -linked) regions behind, presenting an alternative to the conventional methods for carbon nanomembrane production in which cross-linking is induced by electron or UV exposure. Figure 5e shows a carbon nanomembrane from the above reference, fabricated by the HIBL method. Finally

Fusion of purple membranes triggered by immobilization on carbon nanomembranes

• René Riedel,
• Natalie Frese,
• Fang Yang,
• Martin Wortmann,
• Raphael Dalpke,
• Daniel Rhinow,
• Norbert Hampp and
• Armin Gölzhäuser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 93–101, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.8

• Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Department of Structural Biology, Max-von-Laue-Str. 3, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany 10.3762/bjnano.12.8 Abstract A freestanding ultrathin hybrid membrane was synthesized comprising two functional layers, that is, first, a carbon nanomembrane (CNM) produced by

• PM on a solid support. The resulting hybrid membrane has a potential application as a light-driven two-dimensional proton-pumping membrane, for instance, for light-driven seawater desalination as envisioned soon after the discovery of PM. Keywords: bacteriorhodopsin; carbon nanomembrane

• study protein behavior and also do not provide the means to construct an oriented PM monolayer for potential technical applications [33][34]. In this work, we report the successful assembly of a unidirectionally oriented PM quasi-monolayer on an ultrathin carbon nanomembrane (CNM) substrate. CNMs are

The role of ligands in coinage-metal nanoparticles for electronics

• Ioannis Kanelidis and
• Tobias Kraus

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2625–2639, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.263

• interface, and transferred to a substrate by using a Langmuir–Blodgett trough. The single-layer nanomembrane that formed on the water surface had excellent optical transmittance of 90–97% and an electrical resistance of 1.14 × 106 Ω/sq; it reacted to mechanical bending with a 14% increase in resistance

Amplified cross-linking efficiency of self-assembled monolayers through targeted dissociative electron attachment for the production of carbon nanomembranes

• Sascha Koch,
• Christopher D. Kaiser,
• Paul Penner,
• Michael Barclay,
• Lena Frommeyer,
• Daniel Emmrich,
• Patrick Stohmann,
• Tarek Abu-Husein,
• Andreas Terfort,
• D. Howard Fairbrother,
• Oddur Ingólfsson and
• Armin Gölzhäuser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2562–2571, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.256

• nanomembrane; dissociative electron attachment; dissociative ionization; helium ion microscopy; self-assembled monolayers; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Introduction Carbon nanomembranes (CNMs) are two-dimensional molecular sheets with a thickness of one to a few nanometers, high mechanical strength, and

• -induced C–H bond cleavage in the monomers, but also C–C cleavage [17]. In turn, the reactive radical site, generated by such bond cleavage, leads to cross-linking to neighboring monomers within the SAMs, eventually converting them into a laterally cross-linked monomolecular film (i.e., a nanomembrane

• exposure of up to 15 min (9 mC/cm2). These experiments suggested that these layers were not stable enough to survive the transfer process, thus it was not possible to image an intact carbon nanomembrane derived from these precursors neither by optical microscopy nor by HIM. Conclusion The high DEA cross

Deposition of exchange-coupled dinickel complexes on gold substrates utilizing ambidentate mercapto-carboxylato ligands

• Martin Börner,
• Laura Blömer,
• Marcus Kischel,
• Peter Richter,
• Georgeta Salvan,
• Dietrich R. T. Zahn,
• Pablo F. Siles,
• Maria E. N. Fuentes,
• Carlos C. B. Bufon,
• Daniel Grimm,
• Oliver G. Schmidt,
• Daniel Breite,
• Bernd Abel and
• Berthold Kersting

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1375–1387, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.139

• the gold substrates of about 0.6 nm (measured by AFM). Transport measurements Devices used for transport measurements were fabricated on silicon substrates employing standard photolithographic processes combined with thermal deposition. The top electrode was prepared by rolling a metallic nanomembrane

Charge transport in organic nanocrystal diodes based on rolled-up robust nanomembrane contacts

• Vineeth Kumar Bandari,
• Lakshmi Varadharajan,
• Longqian Xu,
• Abdur Rehman Jalil,
• Mirunalini Devarajulu,
• Pablo F. Siles,
• Feng Zhu and
• Oliver G. Schmidt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1277–1282, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.129

• space-charge-limited current under different conditions, for instance, temperature and bias. Keywords: charge transport; nanomembrane; organic diode; organic nanocrystal; rolled-up nanotechnology; Introduction Organic semiconductors have been widely applied in developing optoelectronic devices

• understanding of charge transport mechanisms across the organic nanostructure is a key topic nowadays for developing and optimizing novel nanostructured devices [8][9][32][33]. In this work, we fabricate organic nanocrystal diodes sandwiched between flat metal electrode and rolled-up nanomembrane electrode

Imaging of carbon nanomembranes with helium ion microscopy

• André Beyer,
• Henning Vieker,
• Robin Klett,
• Hanno Meyer zu Theenhausen,
• Polina Angelova and
• Armin Gölzhäuser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1712–1720, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.175

• nanomembrane; helium ion microscopy; self-assembled monolayers; Introduction Carbon nanomembranes (CNMs) are extremely thin and homogeneous two-dimensional objects consisting of a monolayer of laterally cross-linked molecules. They are made by exposing a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of aromatic molecules

Mechanical characterization of carbon nanomembranes from self-assembled monolayers

• Xianghui Zhang,
• André Beyer and
• Armin Gölzhäuser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 826–833, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.92

• -based CNMs are investigated and discussed. Keywords: bulge test; carbon nanomembrane; mechanical characterization; self-assembled monolayers; two-dimensional materials; Introduction Ultrathin freestanding nanomembranes have recently attracted much attention as promising materials in nanotechnology [1