Direct observation of the CVD growth of monolayer MoS₂ using in situ optical spectroscopy

• Claudia Beatriz López-Posadas,
• Yaxu Wei,
• Wanfu Shen,
• Daniel Kahr,
• Michael Hohage and
• Lidong Sun

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 557–564, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.57

• monolayer of MoS2. On the front surface, incompletely merged triangular-shaped MoS2 single crystals are observed, along with large nanoparticles at the edges of the crystalline MoS2 and small ones distributed elsewhere on the surface. The lateral size of the crystalline MoS2 grains is in the order of

• micrometers. In contrast, the large nanoparticles at the edges of MoS2 single crystals exhibit diameters of approximately 50 nm and heights around 10 nm, whereas the small ones show diameters around 20 nm and heights around 1 nm (see Supporting Information File 1, Figure S1). Similar morphology has been

Widening of the electroactivity potential range by composite formation – capacitive properties of TiO₂/BiVO₄/PEDOT:PSS electrodes in contact with an aqueous electrolyte

• Konrad Trzciński,
• Mariusz Szkoda,
• Andrzej P. Nowak,
• Marcin Łapiński and
• Anna Lisowska-Oleksiak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 483–493, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.49

• potential. It is related to the reduction/oxidation of titanium on the surface bonded to OH groups [58]. The reduction/oxidation activity is commonly described as H+ doping/dedoping with simultaneous reduction/oxidation of Ti4+/Ti3+ for TiO2 in the form of both nanotubes [59] and single crystals [60]. BiVO4

Heating ability of magnetic nanoparticles with cubic and combined anisotropy

• Nikolai A. Usov,
• Mikhail S. Nesmeyanov,
• Elizaveta M. Gubanova and
• Natalia B. Epshtein

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 305–314, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.29

• nanoparticles single crystals or do they have a mostly polycrystalline structure? What is the influence of the shape anisotropy on the particle behavior? The knowledge of the actual experimental situation is necessary to predict the heating ability of a real assembly of magnetic nanoparticles. It has been

Magnetic and luminescent coordination networks based on imidazolium salts and lanthanides for sensitive ratiometric thermometry

• Pierre Farger,
• Cédric Leuvrey,
• Mathieu Gallart,
• Pierre Gilliot,
• Guillaume Rogez,
• João Rocha,
• Duarte Ananias,
• Pierre Rabu and
• Emilie Delahaye

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2775–2787, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.259

• ·xH2O with the 1,3-bis(carboxymethyl)imidazolium [HL] ligand and oxalic acid (H2ox) in a water/ethanol solution. The crystal structure of these compounds has been solved on single crystals and the magnetic and luminescent properties have been investigated relying on intrinsic properties of the

• -resolved photo-luminescent properties of the latter indicate possible applications in thermometry. Results and Discussion Synthesis The 1,3-bis(carboxymethyl-)-imidazolium ligand [HL] was synthesized according to protocols published in the literature [41][42]. Single crystals and homogeneous powders of [Ln

• Information Supporting Information contains a representation of the coordination polyhedron, a table of selected bonds, a comparison of the experimental powder X-ray diffraction patterns of the different compounds and the simulated pattern from single crystals X-ray data, SEM analysis, TGA/TDA analysis, a

High-temperature magnetism and microstructure of a semiconducting ferromagnetic (GaSb)_1−x(MnSb)_x alloy

• Leonid N. Oveshnikov,
• Elena I. Nekhaeva,
• Alexey V. Kochura,
• Alexander B. Davydov,
• Mikhail A. Shakhov,
• Sergey F. Marenkin,
• Oleg A. Novodvorskii,
• Alexander P. Kuzmenko,
• Alexander L. Vasiliev,
• Boris A. Aronzon and
• Erkki Lahderanta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2457–2465, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.230

• , which was sputtered by the second harmonic radiation of a Q-switched YAG:Nd laser (λ = 532 nm). Al2O3(0001) single crystals were used as substrates. A more detailed description of the growth technology can be found in [15]. Magnetization was measured at temperatures of T = 5–310 K in magnetic fields up

Recent highlights in nanoscale and mesoscale friction

• Andrea Vanossi,
• Dirk Dietzel,
• Andre Schirmeisen,
• Ernst Meyer,
• Rémy Pawlak,
• Thilo Glatzel,
• Marcin Kisiel,
• Shigeki Kawai and
• Nicola Manini

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1995–2014, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.190

• made accessible for structures prepared by thermal evaporation [44][45][46][47][48] or lithographic techniques [49][50][51][52][53][54]. Alternatively, molecular-scale structures such as PTCDA [55], polyfluorene chains [56], graphene nanoflakes on graphene [57] or graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) on single

• crystals [58] can be analyzed (see [59] for a detailed review on single-molecule manipulation in nanotribology). These experimental efforts are accompanied by increasing theoretical work, where the analysis of specific nanoscale systems and systematic variation of their key characteristics provides

Synthesis of hafnium nanoparticles and hafnium nanoparticle films by gas condensation and energetic deposition

• Irini Michelakaki,
• Nikos Boukos,
• Dimitrios A. Dragatogiannis,
• Spyros Stathopoulos,
• Costas A. Charitidis and
• Dimitris Tsoukalas

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1868–1880, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.179

• ]. The size of the crystallites was calculated to be ca. 11 nm. This value is smaller than the average nanoparticle diameter defined from TEM images equal to D = 16 nm. This observation indicates that the nanoparticles are not single crystals, which is expected in our case, because the nanoparticles have

Multimodal noncontact atomic force microscopy and Kelvin probe force microscopy investigations of organolead tribromide perovskite single crystals

• Yann Almadori,
• David Moerman,
• Jaume Llacer Martinez,
• Philippe Leclère and
• Benjamin Grévin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1695–1704, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.161

• du Parc 20, B7000 Mons, Belgium 10.3762/bjnano.9.161 Abstract In this work, methylammonium lead tribromide (MAPbBr3) single crystals are studied by noncontact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) and Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM). We demonstrate that the surface photovoltage and crystal

• . Keywords: carrier lifetime; ion migration; Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM); noncontact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM); organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites; photostriction; single crystals; surface photovoltage (SPV); time-resolved surface photovoltage; Introduction Organic–inorganic hybrid

• halide perovskite thin films remains a difficult task. Over the last few years single crystals [11][12] have constituted an interesting alternative for basic research on hybrid perovskites. Thanks to the absence of grain boundaries (and noncrystalline domains) they can be advantageously used to probe the

Room-temperature single-photon emitters in titanium dioxide optical defects

• Kelvin Chung,
• Yu H. Leung,
• Chap H. To,
• Aleksandra B. Djurišić and
• Snjezana Tomljenovic-Hanic

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1085–1094, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.100

• morphologies was to determine if room-temperature single-photon emitters exist. Figure 2 shows representative 100 × 100 μm2 confocal scans of the TiO2 samples including thin films, single crystal and nanopowders. The films were synthesized as described above, single crystals and nanopowders were purchased (MTI

• signals in the emission peaks by suppressing the contributions due to phonon sidebands. Conclusion This study investigated thin films, single crystals and nanopowders of TiO2 via confocal microscopy. For the first time, it has been observed that TiO2 defects exhibit antibunching behaviour within thin

Single-crystalline FeCo nanoparticle-filled carbon nanotubes: synthesis, structural characterization and magnetic properties

• Rasha Ghunaim,
• Maik Scholz,
• Christine Damm,
• Bernd Rellinghaus,
• Rüdiger Klingeler,
• Bernd Büchner,
• Michael Mertig and
• Silke Hampel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1024–1034, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.95

• analysis of the TEM measurements (dTEM = 58 ± 20 nm, Figure 4b), indicating that the TEM images show single crystals. Note, however, that the error bars in dXRD refer to the measurement error while for dTEM it indicates the observed size distribution. The diameter for the as-prepared sample is dXRD = 19

Fatigue crack growth characteristics of Fe and Ni under cyclic loading using a quasi-continuum method

• Ren-Zheng Qiu,
• Yi-Chen Lin and
• Te-Hua Fang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1000–1014, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.93

• , strong materials. Considerable attention has been focused on the investigation of the fatigue crack growth behavior in single crystals under cyclic loading using molecular dynamics (MD), which is an effective tool for analyzing the mechanical deformation and mechanical properties of materials at the

Facile chemical routes to mesoporous silver substrates for SERS analysis

• Elina A. Tastekova,
• Alexander Y. Polyakov,
• Anastasia E. Goldt,
• Alexander V. Sidorov,
• Alexandra A. Oshmyanskaya,
• Irina V. Sukhorukova,
• Dmitry V. Shtansky,
• Wolgang Grünert and
• Anastasia V. Grigorieva

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 880–889, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.82

• , while in presence of PVP, the average particle diameter was 33 ± 10 nm. The characteristic feature of the crystallites was sphere-like or ellipse shaped. PVP produced no macroporous aggregates, because no large single crystals of Ag2O were in the film, but improved the porosity of the Ag film (Figure 2b

The rational design of a Au(I) precursor for focused electron beam induced deposition

• Ali Marashdeh,
• Thiadrik Tiesma,
• Niels J. C. van Velzen,
• Sjoerd Harder,
• Remco W. A. Havenith,
• Jeff T. M. De Hosson and
• Willem F. van Dorp

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2753–2765, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.274

• EDAX detector for energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). The samples were inserted free of oxygen and water. The composition and morphology were characterized directly after inserting, and after 12 h in high vacuum. X-ray diffraction High-quality single crystals of MeAuPMe3 were grown by

• recrystallization of micro-crystalline material: slow evaporation of the solvent from a diethylether solution in the inert atmosphere of a glovebox gave single crystals between 0.1 and 0.5 mm. The crystals were measured on a SuperNova diffractometer (Rigaku-Oxford diffractions) with Mo and Cu microsources and an

Synthesis of [{AgO₂CCH₂OMe(PPh₃)}_n] and theoretical study of its use in focused electron beam induced deposition

• Jelena Tamuliene,
• Julian Noll,
• Peter Frenzel,
• Tobias Rüffer,
• Alexander Jakob,
• Bernhard Walfort and
• Heinrich Lang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2615–2624, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.262

• (Experimental; Supporting Information File 1, Figures S6 and S7). These results suggest the processing of 2 in nanoelectrospray liquid precursor injection as well as standard gas-phase FEBID [14]. Suitable single crystals of [{AgO2CCH2OMe(PPh3)}n] were obtained by layering a concentrated solution of

The interplay between spin densities and magnetic superexchange interactions: case studies of mono- and trinuclear bis(oxamato)-type complexes

• Azar Aliabadi,
• Bernd Büchner,
• Vladislav Kataev and
• Tobias Rüffer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2245–2256, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.224

• sensitivity than NMR spectroscopy. One possibility to investigate the electron spin density by ESR is, as nicely described in [33], the fabrication of single crystals composed of the paramagnetic complex of interest co-crystallized in the host lattice of a corresponding and structural analogous diamagnetic

• complex, which usually should be even isomorphic. The single crystals itself should be large enough in order to be able to manipulate them reliably. In an initial study we co-crystallized a Cu(II)-containing type-II complex in the host lattice of the corresponding Ni(II) complex [42]. In doing so, we

• managed to obtain diamagnetically diluted single crystals. X-band ESR studies gave access to all components of the g-factor tensor, the tensors of on-site CuA and transferred NA hyperfine interactions [42]. The orientation of the single crystals within the ESR spectrometer is of crucial importance, as for

Group-13 and group-15 doping of germanane

• Nicholas D. Cultrara,
• Maxx Q. Arguilla,
• Shishi Jiang,
• Chuanchuan Sun,
• Michael R. Scudder,
• R. Dominic Ross and
• Joshua E. Goldberger

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1642–1648, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.164

• technique (Figure 5b). Two-probe I–V measurements were carried out on single crystals with device geometries that typically featured a channel length of 25 µm, a width of 2–4 mm and a thickness of 5–20 µm (Figure 5b). After exploring numerous metals, nearly ohmic contacts (under vacuum) to Ga:GeH were

• different phases, none of which were structurally similar to any known layered CaGe2 polymorph. Subsequently, the single crystals of the x:CaGe2 (x = Al, Ga, As) were placed in −40 °C HCl for at least 8 days, until deintercalation was complete and a lack of crystalline CaGe2 peaks appeared in the XRD. The

Light-induced magnetoresistance in solution-processed planar hybrid devices measured under ambient conditions

• Sreetama Banerjee,
• Daniel Bülz,
• Danny Reuter,
• Karla Hiller,
• Dietrich R. T. Zahn and
• Georgeta Salvan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1502–1507, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.150

• different contributions to the device degradation. It was also shown by Jurchescu et al. [16] that pentacene single crystals behave differently when the electrical conductivity is measured in ambient or dry air, with and without illumination. It should be mentioned here that previously we found the decrease

Formation of ferromagnetic molecular thin films from blends by annealing

• Peter Robaschik,
• Ye Ma,
• Salahud Din and
• Sandrine Heutz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1469–1475, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.146

• fabrication advantages of molecular materials. The β-phase is particularly attractive for MnPc, where it leads to ferromagnetism in polycrystalline powders and single crystals [10][11]. Due to the arrangement in molecular columns with a stacking angle of 45° the Mn ion lies directly underneath a nitrogen atom

Spin-chemistry concepts for spintronics scientists

• Konstantin L. Ivanov,
• Alexander Wagenpfahl,
• Carsten Deibel and
• Jörg Matysik

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1427–1445, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.143

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

• . Description of the crystal structure of 6 and 7 Attempts to grow single crystals of 6–8 met with little success. Only preliminary X-ray crystallographic data for the complexes 6 and 7 can be presented. Although the quality of the structure determination is low and insufficient for publication, these data can

Adsorption characteristics of Er₃N@C₈₀on W(110) and Au(111) studied via scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy

• Sebastian Schimmel,
• Zhixiang Sun,
• Danny Baumann,
• Denis Krylov,
• Nataliya Samoylova,
• Alexey Popov,
• Bernd Büchner and
• Christian Hess

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1127–1134, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.114

• in situ in a variable temperature STM. To provide contamination free substrate surfaces, cleaning treatments were applied to the used single crystals, prior to the measurement. According to the proceeding suggested by Bode et al. [10], the W(110)-surface was cleaned by repeated cycles of annealing (T

Tuning the spin coherence time of Cu(II)−(bis)oxamato and Cu(II)−(bis)oxamidato complexes by advanced ESR pulse protocols

• Ruslan Zaripov,
• Evgeniya Vavilova,
• Iskander Khairuzhdinov,
• Kev Salikhov,
• Violeta Voronkova,
• Mohammad A. Abdulmalic,
• Francois E. Meva,
• Saddam Weheabby,
• Tobias Rüffer,
• Bernd Büchner and
• Vladislav Kataev

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 943–955, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.96

• single crystals of diamagnetically diluted mononuclear [n-Bu4N]2[Cu(opba)] (1%) in the host lattice of [n-Bu4N]2[Ni(opba)] (99%, opba = o-phenylenebis(oxamato)) and of diamagnetically diluted mononuclear [n-Bu4N]2[Cu(opbon-Pr2)] (1%) in the host lattice of [n-Bu4N]2[Ni(opbon-Pr2)] (99%, opbon-Pr2 = o

• diamagnetic Ni(II)-containing complexes [n-Bu4N]2[Ni(opba)] and [n-Bu4N]2[Ni(opbon-Pr2)] have been studied with pulse ESR techniques at X- and Q-band microwave frequencies of ≈9.8 GHz and 33.9 GHz, respectively. The accessibility of such diamagnetically diluted single crystals has been recently described by

• nearly ideally planar [28]. Moreover, the complex fragment P1 in the diamagnetically diluted single crystals described here is expected to have crystallographically imposed C2 symmetry, as [n-Bu4N]2[Cu(opba)] and [n-Bu4N]2[Ni(opba)] are structurally isomorphic and possess C2 symmetric complex fragments

Probing the magnetic superexchange couplings between terminal Cu^II ions in heterotrinuclear bis(oxamidato) type complexes

• Mohammad A. Abdulmalic,
• Saddam Weheabby,
• Francois E. Meva,
• Azar Aliabadi,
• Vladislav Kataev,
• Bernd Büchner,
• Frederik Schleife,
• Berthold Kersting and
• Tobias Rüffer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 789–800, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.82

• -Bu4N][ClO4], respectively, could be smoothly separated as they are soluble in 4:1 THF/Et2O mixtures, while the desired complexes 1–3 are insoluble in such mixtures. The isolated powders of 1–3 had to be stored under inert gas atmosphere, as they are hygroscopic. Single crystals of 1–3 could be obtained

• as described next by crystallisation experiments performed under inert atmosphere. Single crystal X-ray diffraction studies Slow diffusion of Et2O vapour into CH2Cl2 solutions of 1 and 3 and into a MeCN solution of 2 afforded single crystals suitable for crystallographic studies of the compositions

• attributed to remaining amounts of packing solvent molecules and thus errors in the determination of the molecular weight. It could be attributed furthermore to the hygroscopic nature of vacuum-dried single crystals of 1’–3’ and as the sample preparation was performed under aerobic conditions, cf

Methods for preparing polymer-decorated single exchange-biased magnetic nanoparticles for application in flexible polymer-based films

• Laurence Ourry,
• Delphine Toulemon,
• Souad Ammar and
• Fayna Mammeri

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 408–417, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.43

• various material processing routes to prepare weakly interacting and densely arranged hybrid ENPs. The ENPs used were prepared by seed-mediated growth in a polyol medium; they consist of ferrimagnetic CoxFe3−xO4 single crystals, almost isotropic in shape and of about 10 nm in diameter, coated in a

Electron energy relaxation under terahertz excitation in (Cd_1−xZn_x)₃As₂ Dirac semimetals

• Alexandra V. Galeeva,
• Ivan V. Krylov,
• Konstantin A. Drozdov,
• Anatoly F. Knjazev,
• Alexey V. Kochura,
• Alexander P. Kuzmenko,
• Vasily S. Zakhvalinskii,
• Sergey N. Danilov,
• Ludmila I. Ryabova and
• Dmitry R. Khokhlov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 167–171, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.17

• apply this approach to the solid solutions of Dirac semimetals (Cd1−xZnx)3As2 undergoing an analogous transition from the inverted to the direct spectrum in the bulk at x > 0.08 [13]. The samples under study were single crystals of (Cd1−xZnx)3As2 grown from the vapor phase. The sample composition was