The effect of surface anisotropy in the slippery zone of Nepenthes alata pitchers on beetle attachment

• Elena V. Gorb and
• Stanislav N. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 302–310, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.35

• beetles were studied in the SEM at an acceleration voltage of 3 kV. For this purpose, insects were air-dried, mounted with their dorsal side to aluminium holders, sputter-coated with gold-palladium (thickness 6 nm), and examined in SEM, as described above. The diameter of the claw tip (D) was estimated

Effect of large mechanical stress on the magnetic properties of embedded Fe nanoparticles

• Srinivasa Saranu,
• Sören Selve,
• Ute Kaiser,
• Luyang Han,
• Ulf Wiedwald,
• Paul Ziemann and
• Ulrich Herr

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 268–275, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.31

• film on top using thermal evaporation. Ta foil of 200 µm thickness was used as a substrate for the stress application. One side of the Ta foil was polished to an RMS roughness of less than 5 nm using chemo-mechanical polishing. The other side of the Ta foil was coated with 100 nm of palladium, which

Room temperature synthesis of indium tin oxide nanotubes with high precision wall thickness by electroless deposition

• Mario Boehme,
• Emanuel Ionescu,
• Ganhua Fu and
• Wolfgang Ensinger

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 119–126, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.14

• metallic Ag which form Ag0 clusters on the template surface (Equation 2). Using an aqueous PdCl2 solution, the Ag0 clusters are oxidized to Ag+ and pass into solution whilst the Pd2+ ions are reduced to Pd0 to form palladium clusters on the template surface (Equation 3). Following these steps using the

• parameter named in the experimental section of this report, we were able to produce more than 2000 clusters per µm², which is one of the keys to achieve ITO nanotubes with the reported dimensions. Senzitation: Activation: Palladium cluster formation To discuss the growth mechanism of the ITO-NTs induced by

• palladium clusters placed on the surface prior to deposition. As the reaction proceeds, more ITO crystallites appear in the solution, and the nanotubes are formed. The conditions of the aqueous solutions can be controlled by adjusting the concentrations, temperature, pH and the quantities and type of