Potential of a deep eutectic solvent in silver nanoparticle fabrication for antibiotic residue detection

• Le Hong Tho,
• Bui Xuan Khuyen,
• Ngoc Xuan Dat Mai and
• Nhu Hoa Thi Tran

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 426–434, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.38

• thermal stability, high polarity, low vapor pressure, and low toxicity, which makes DESs promising candidates for the replacement of thousands of industrial solvents [24][25]. DESs are so versatile that they have been used for nanomaterials synthesis [26][27]. Regarding plasmonic materials, gold

Unveiling the nature of atomic defects in graphene on a metal surface

• Karl Rothe,
• Nicolas Néel and
• Jörg Kröger

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 416–425, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.37

• molecular precursor C2H4 (purity: 99.9%) at a partial pressure of 10−5 Pa for 120 s [25][26]. Atomic-scale defects were created by bombarding graphene-covered Ir(111) with low-energy (140 eV) Ar+ ions (purity of the Ar gas: 99.999%) [27][28][29][30] at room temperature for 5 s followed by annealing (900 K

Classification and application of metal-based nanoantioxidants in medicine and healthcare

• Nguyen Nhat Nam,
• Nguyen Khoi Song Tran,
• Tan Tai Nguyen,
• Nguyen Ngoc Trai,
• Nguyen Phuong Thuy,
• Hoang Dang Khoa Do,
• Nhu Hoa Thi Tran and
• Kieu The Loan Trinh

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 396–415, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.36

• macrophages. Moreover, AuNPs with different sizes and shapes exhibit the capability to inhibit angiogenesis, especially at 20 nm size [178][186]. In 2022, García-Rubio and colleagues introduced a novel diagnostic approach to differentiate between normal blood pressure and hypertension. This method involves

On the mechanism of piezoresistance in nanocrystalline graphite

• Sandeep Kumar,
• Simone Dehm and
• Ralph Krupke

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 376–384, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.34

• and dislocations are currently under development [13][14]. This leads to the situation that the role of grain boundaries for graphene-based sensing of strain, pressure, and motion has not been explored and remains unresolved [15][16][17][18], although in CVD graphene the domain size is typically of

• measurements and Raman spectroscopy, is shown in Figure 1a. Two instances of zero and non-zero strain are also depicted. The setup has two stepper motors acquired from Standa Inc. The contacts on the NCG were made by gold-coated spring pressure contacts, which were then connected to a BNC connector and a

Controllable physicochemical properties of WO_x thin films grown under glancing angle

• Rupam Mandal,
• Aparajita Mandal,
• Alapan Dutta,
• Rengasamy Sivakumar,
• Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava and
• Tapobrata Som

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 350–359, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.31

• organic contaminants. Prior to the deposition, the substrates were properly air-dried. A 99.99% pure WO3 target (5 mm thick) was used to grow the WOx films. The initial pressure in the deposition chamber was 5 × 10−7 mbar, and the WOx films were deposited at 5 × 10−3 mbar working pressure by injecting

• K, 1 h) used in the present study may not be sufficient to induce crystallinity in the films. Usually, the work function of polycrystalline WOx films is reported to vary between 5.7 and 6.7 eV [49]. In the present work, no O2 partial pressure was used, so it is expected that all WOx films are

Comparative electron microscopy particle sizing of TiO₂ pigments: sample preparation and measurement

• Ralf Theissmann,
• Christopher Drury,
• Markus Rohe,
• Thomas Koch,
• Jochen Winkler and
• Petr Pikal

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 317–332, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.29

• the relative pressure range of 0.1–0.3 (pressure equilibration tolerance 0.1 mm Hg). ICP measurement method The presented results were obtained at Agilent's Waldbronn application laboratory using an Agilent 8900 ICP-MS, in collaboration with Dr. Balski from Agilent. Sample preparation took place at

Determining by Raman spectroscopy the average thickness and N-layer-specific surface coverages of MoS₂ thin films with domains much smaller than the laser spot size

• Felipe Wasem Klein,
• Jean-Roch Huntzinger,
• Vincent Astié,
• Damien Voiry,
• Romain Parret,
• Houssine Makhlouf,
• Sandrine Juillaguet,
• Jean-Manuel Decams,
• Sylvie Contreras,
• Périne Landois,
• Ahmed-Azmi Zahab,
• Jean-Louis Sauvajol and
• Matthieu Paillet

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 279–296, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.26

• injection pulsed-pressure chemical vapor deposition (DLI-PP-CVD). Such samples are constituted of nanoflakes (with a lateral size of typically 50 nm, i.e., well below the laser spot size), with possibly a distribution of thicknesses and twist angles between stacked layers. As an essential preliminary, we

• growth of wafer-scale MoS2 thin films on SiO2/Si substrates by direct liquid injection pulsed-pressure chemical vapor deposition (DLI-PP-CVD) using low-toxicity precursors [27]. Such MoS2 thin films showed good stoichiometry (Mo/S = 1.94–1.95) and the potential for high photoluminescence quantum yield

Multiscale modelling of biomolecular corona formation on metallic surfaces

• Parinaz Mosaddeghi Amini,
• Ian Rouse,
• Julia Subbotina and
• Vladimir Lobaskin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 215–229, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.21

• ions. The system’s pH value was maintained at a neutral level, and the NaCl salt concentration was set to 150 mM, mimicking the overall ionic strength of milk and equivalent to one salt molecule per 10 nm3. The system underwent equilibration for 1.0 ns under constant pressure conditions at 1.0 bar and

• -tempered metadynamics (AWT-MetaD) simulations, the adsorption energy was calculated at a temperature of 300 K, a pressure of 1.0 bar, and a neutral pH within the NVT ensemble. Additionally, we measured the interaction energy as a function of surface separation distance (SSD) as a collective variable

Ion beam processing of DNA origami nanostructures

• Leo Sala,
• Agnes Zerolová,
• Violaine Vizcaino,
• Alain Mery,
• Alicja Domaracka,
• Hermann Rothard,
• Philippe Boduch,
• Dominik Pinkas and
• Jaroslav Kocišek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 207–214, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.20

• nanostructure height must be associated with the energy transfer within the DNA nanostructure or highly localized effects, such as thermal and pressure shock waves in the vicinity of the track [40]. We are now preparing experiments to explore this issue. The formation of craters on the nanostructures was

Graphene removal by water-assisted focused electron-beam-induced etching – unveiling the dose and dwell time impact on the etch profile and topographical changes in SiO₂ substrates

• Aleksandra Szkudlarek,
• Jan M. Michalik,
• Inés Serrano-Esparza,
• Zdeněk Nováček,
• Veronika Novotná,
• Piotr Ozga,
• Czesław Kapusta and
• José María De Teresa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 190–198, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.18

• formed, and they start to chemically react with graphene. There are a few possible reaction paths which could occur during this process: A first series of water FEBIE experiments have been performed on single, bi-, and triple layers of graphene in ESEM mode at a background pressure of 130 Pa, with a beam

• AFM profiles measured in situ, we cannot exclude that it appears after taking out the sample and exposing it to air and ambient pressure. This effect, to the best of our knowledge, is firstly reported in this work and has not been mentioned in prior research on water-assisted FEBIE etching of graphene

• electrons at a given process time. From the pressure P inside the SEM chamber one can calculate the number of impinging molecules by using the formula J = PNA/(2πMRT)1/2, given in the reference [31], where NA is the Avogadro number, M is the molar mass of impinging molecules, R is the universal gas constant

CdSe/ZnS quantum dots as a booster in the active layer of distributed ternary organic photovoltaics

• Gabriela Lewińska,
• Piotr Jeleń,
• Zofia Kucia,
• Maciej Sitarz,
• Łukasz Walczak,
• Bartłomiej Szafraniak,
• Jerzy Sanetra and
• Konstanty W. Marszalek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 144–156, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.14

• pressure of approximately 8 × 10−10 mbar, using the XPS/UPS/ARPES PREVAC setup. The analysis chamber was equipped with a PREVAC Ea15 hemispherical analyzer and a PREVAC EA15 40B source (UV power U = 0.56 kV, PUV = 55 W, He I). The beam energy scale was calibrated at the Fermi level of 16.87 eV. The samples

Development and characterization of potential larvicidal nanoemulsions against Aedes aegypti

• Jonatas L. Duarte,
• Leonardo Delello Di Filippo,
• Anna Eliza Maciel de Faria Mota Oliveira,
• Rafael Miguel Sábio,
• Gabriel Davi Marena,
• Tais Maria Bauab,
• Cristiane Duque,
• Vincent Corbel and
• Marlus Chorilli

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 104–114, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.10

• [14]. NEs can be obtained through two general approaches, that is, high-energy methods and low-energy methods. The high-energy methods are characterized by using equipment such as sonicators, high-speed homogenizers, and high-pressure homogenizers, which provide high energy input during processing

Measurements of dichroic bow-tie antenna arrays with integrated cold-electron bolometers using YBCO oscillators

• Leonid S. Revin,
• Dmitry A. Pimanov,
• Alexander V. Chiginev,
• Anton V. Blagodatkin,
• Viktor O. Zbrozhek,
• Andrey V. Samartsev,
• Anastasia N. Orlova,
• Dmitry V. Masterov,
• Alexey E. Parafin,
• Victoria Yu. Safonova,
• Anna V. Gordeeva,
• Andrey L. Pankratov,
• Leonid S. Kuzmin,
• Anatolie S. Sidorenko,
• Silvia Masi and
• Paolo de Bernardis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 26–36, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.3

• of 1.2 nm of Fe and 30 nm of Al on top; then, 60 nm of aluminum are deposited at an angle of 45°. Thus, we form a superconductor–normal metal (SN) Andreev contact. Subsequently, oxidation is carried out at a relatively high pressure (1–2 Torr) in the working chamber of the sputtering unit. The last

Nanotechnological approaches in the treatment of schistosomiasis: an overview

• Lucas Carvalho,
• Michelle Sarcinelli and
• Beatriz Patrício

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 13–25, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.2

• classic nanocarriers are not present in SLN, such as lack of biocompatibility, difficulty to produce on a large scale, and high raw material cost [36]. Many methods are used to prepare SLN, and they are divided into (1) high-energy methods, for dispersion of the lipid phase (such as high-pressure

• used in the future [8]. In another work, Gonzalez et al. [48] increased the dissolution of PZQ by producing nanocrystals through high-pressure homogenization, followed by drying through spray-drying. After that, they resuspended the powder in Oral plus® and Oral Sweet®, which are suspension vehicles

TEM sample preparation of lithographically patterned permalloy nanostructures on silicon nitride membranes

• Joshua Williams,
• Michael I. Faley,
• Joseph Vimal Vas,
• Peng-Han Lu and
• Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1–12, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.1

• magnetron sputtering through the resist aperture. We used DC magnetron sputtering in a pure Ar environment at a pressure of 1 Pa to deposit Py at room temperature. The effective permalloy target had a diameter of 8 mm. The sputtered material almost forms a parallel beam when it approaches the substrate at a

• , we initially fabricated the nanostructures on a 200 µm thick Si substrate with 100 nm thick SiN buffer layers on both sides. The buffer layers were deposited with low-pressure CVD to ensure stress-free films. The fabrication process is shown in Figure 10. First, we made the nanostructure using lift

A combined gas-phase dissociative ionization, dissociative electron attachment and deposition study on the potential FEBID precursor [Au(CH₃)₂Cl]₂

• Elif Bilgilisoy,
• Ali Kamali,
• Thomas Xaver Gentner,
• Gerd Ballmann,
• Sjoerd Harder,
• Hans-Peter Steinrück,
• Hubertus Marbach and
• Oddur Ingólfsson

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 1178–1199, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.98

• that we attribute to electron-induced secondary and tertiary reactions in the deposition process. We find this precursor to be stable at ambient conditions and to have sufficient vapor pressure to be suitable for use in HV instruments. More importantly, in the UHV setup, FEBID with [Au(CH3)2Cl]2

• most significant DI processes from below their thresholds to 50 eV. The intensities are normalized to the pressure and the signal intensity of Ar+ from Ar at an electron energy of 50 eV. Table 3 shows the integral intensities of these fragments over the presented energy range, along with their relative

Density functional theory study of Au-fcc/Ge and Au-hcp/Ge interfaces

• Olga Sikora,
• Małgorzata Sternik,
• Benedykt R. Jany,
• Franciszek Krok,
• Przemysław Piekarz and
• Andrzej M. Oleś

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 1093–1105, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.90

• in the bulk and in the supercell configurations. Structural models Under ambient pressure, germanium and gold crystallize in the diamond () and the fcc (Fm3m) structure, respectively. Their experimental lattice constants are aGe = 5.66 Å for germanium and aAu−fcc = 4.08 Å for gold [31]. The hexagonal

Properties of tin oxide films grown by atomic layer deposition from tin tetraiodide and ozone

• Kristjan Kalam,
• Peeter Ritslaid,
• Tanel Käämbre,
• Aile Tamm and
• Kaupo Kukli

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 1085–1092, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.89

• authors aim to provide a comprehensive description of said process and the resulting films. Experimental The films studied in this work were grown in a low-pressure flow-type ALD reactor [16]. Tin(IV) iodide, SnI4 (99.999%, Sigma-Aldrich), used as the tin precursor was evaporated at 83 °C from a half-open

Experimental investigation of usage of POE lubricants with Al₂O₃, graphene or CNT nanoparticles in a refrigeration compressor

• Kayhan Dağıdır and
• Kemal Bilen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 1041–1058, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.86

• . Details of the experimental investigation are presented in the following sections. Experimental setup The experimental setup includes a semi-hermetic reciprocating compressor. This compressor is compatible with the refrigerant R1234yf. The experimental setup is shown in Figure 1. Pressure and temperature

• measurement devices were placed to control operating conditions at the inlet and outlet of the compressor. Pressure and temperature values were measured at the inlet and outlet to ensure safe operation of the refrigeration compressor. Piezoresistive pressure transmitters (PPT) and resistance temperature

• detector (RTD) sensors were used for pressure and temperature measurements, respectively. Besides, required electrical power of the compressor was measured using a digital wattmeter. During the tests, the pressure and temperatures at the compressor inlet and outlet were kept approximately constant. The

Nanoarchitectonics of photothermal materials to enhance the sensitivity of lateral flow assays

• Elangovan Sarathkumar,
• Rajasekharan S. Anjana and
• Ramapurath S. Jayasree

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 988–1003, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.82

• . Thus, the test results from LFAs are not comparable with standard centralized laboratory techniques such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, real-time polymerase chain reaction, and high-pressure liquid chromatography, which have a detection limit from nanomolar to attomolar concentrations, whereas

Fragmentation of metal(II) bis(acetylacetonate) complexes induced by slow electrons

• Janina Kopyra and
• Hassan Abdoul-Carime

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 980–987, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.81

• , 0.498, 0.44, and 0.16 eV for CuL2, NiL2, and CoL2, MnL2, and ZnL2, respectively [15][16][17][18][19]. As the molecules are sublimated, the pressure of the molecular beam, P, that is, the number of precursors in the gas phase, follows the Clausius–Clapeyron relation (log(P) = C − ΔHsub/T), where C is a

• of an electron source, an oven, and a quadrupole mass analyzer (QMA). The components are housed in a UHV chamber at a base pressure of around 2 × 10−8 mbar. A well-defined electron beam generated from a trochoidal electron monochromator (resolution approx. 210 meV FWHM), orthogonally intersects an

Isolation of cubic Si₃P₄ in the form of nanocrystals

• Polina K. Nikiforova,
• Sergei S. Bubenov,
• Vadim B. Platonov,
• Andrey S. Kumskov,
• Nikolay N. Kononov,
• Tatyana A. Kuznetsova and
• Sergey G. Dorofeev

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 971–979, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.80

• synthesized either under atmospheric or high pressure. Since pseudocubic Si3P4 is bound to be metastable according to the phase diagram [8], any method of its synthesis must involve out-of-equilibrium conditions. The majority of theoretical studies on numerous Si3P4 phases have shown pseudocubic (tetragonal

• temperatures as low as 400 °C with no elevated pressure. Prior to this study, bulk cubic sphalerite-type SiP had only been synthesized above 1700 °C under a pressure of 40–50 kbar [20]. Results and Discussion Initially, the objective of the experiment was to obtain silicon NPs with a controlled distribution of

• . In order to obtain silicon phosphide samples, weighted amounts of hydrogenated Si NPs (ca. 10 mg) and red phosphorus (ca. 15 mg) were transferred to a clean degassed quartz ampoule, which was sealed under the residual pressure of 5 × 10−2 mbar. Annealings were carried out in a muffle furnace SNOL-3

Metal-organic framework-based nanomaterials for CO₂ storage: A review

• Ha Huu Do,
• Iqra Rabani and
• Hai Bang Truong

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 964–970, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.79

• [16][17][18][19]. However, several studies have indicated that the surface area is not the sole determining factor in CO2 storage at low pressure. For instance, despite having a lower surface area than MOF-177, HKUST-1 exhibited a greater CO2 adsorption capacity of 4.16 mmol·g−1 at 298 K and 1 bar [20

• investigations under 10 bar and 298 K. At pressures higher than 10 bar, computational and experimental results were significantly different because of the unsuitable force field under high pressure conditions. Recently, Stanton et al. also used the GCMC technique to predict the CO2 adsorption of various MOF

• , which promotes their interaction with OMSs within the MOF structures. In this regard, MOFs tend to exhibit instability under such conditions. Therefore, design and selection of MOFs are imperative for effective CO2 adsorption, such as in the case of MOF-808. Furthermore, CO2 storage at low pressure is

Low temperature atomic layer deposition of cobalt using dicobalt hexacarbonyl-1-heptyne as precursor

• Mathias Franz,
• Mahnaz Safian Jouzdani,
• Lysann Kaßner,
• Marcus Daniel,
• Frank Stahr and
• Stefan E. Schulz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 951–963, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.78

• Microelectronics of Chemnitz University of Technology, and FAP Forschungs- und Applikationslabor Plasmatechnik GmbH. The reactor is a single-wafer reactor for 200 mm wafers and consists of an inner and an outer reactor with a typical base pressure of 3 × 10−6 mbar. A simplified schematic sketch is shown in Figure

•  1. The reactor is designed to offer a wide variability as it consists of two bubblers, two Vapbox evaporators (Kemstream SAS), and two CEM systems (Bronkhorst High-Tech B.V.) for precursor delivery. In that way, one can evaporate liquids with high and low vapour pressure, as well as solids in

• under inert gas atmosphere. The bubbler was heated to 30 °C, which will result in a vapour pressure of 15.7 mbar according to the published Antoine parameters of Georgi and co-workers [23]. Pure argon (6N) was used as carrier gas for bubbling. The depositions in CVD mode were done with a continuous

Ni, Co, Zn, and Cu metal-organic framework-based nanomaterials for electrochemical reduction of CO₂: A review

• Ha Huu Do and
• Hai Bang Truong

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 904–911, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.74

• sacrificial agents to create metal or metal compounds embedded in carbon matrices was considered a potential direction in CO2RR application. Systematic studies should be conducted to control morphological structure and composition by changing reaction conditions (time, temperature, and pressure) when