Heterometal nanoparticles from Ru-based molecular clusters covalently anchored onto functionalized carbon nanotubes and nanofibers

• Deborah Vidick,
• Xiaoxing Ke,
• Michel Devillers,
• Claude Poleunis,
• Arnaud Delcorte,
• Pietro Moggi,
• Gustaaf Van Tendeloo and
• Sophie Hermans

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1287–1297, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.133

• . 262348 European Soft Matter Infrastructure).

Overview of nanoscale NEXAFS performed with soft X-ray microscopes

• Peter Guttmann and
• Carla Bittencourt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 595–604, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.61

• Peter Guttmann Carla Bittencourt Institute for Soft Matter and Functional Materials, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany ChIPS, University of Mons, B-7000, Mons, Belgium 10.3762/bjnano.6.61 Abstract Today, in material science

Entropy effects in the collective dynamic behavior of alkyl monolayers tethered to Si(111)

• Christian Godet

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 583–594, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.60

• ][33][34][35]. These robust densely packed insulating molecular layers play the role of nanometer-thick tunnel barriers [25][27][31][32][36][37][38][39]. Although conformational changes are intrinsic to soft matter, the consequences of temperature-induced [25][26][27][31] and pressure-induced [7][9

Dynamic force microscopy simulator (dForce): A tool for planning and understanding tapping and bimodal AFM experiments

• Horacio V. Guzman,
• Pablo D. Garcia and
• Ricardo Garcia

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 369–379, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.36

• material (Figure 4c). Viscoelastic materials Experiments involving soft matter usually imply the existence of a viscoelastic response. Figure 5a shows the viscoelastic force calculated with the Garcia–San Paulo expression (Equation 20). Far from the sample surface, the force is zero (not including long

Accurate, explicit formulae for higher harmonic force spectroscopy by frequency modulation-AFM

• Kfir Kuchuk and
• Uri Sivan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 149–156, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.14

• force maps that carry unprecedented information on the interfacial properties of soft matter [3], water structure [1][2] and ion ordering [4]. The generation of such force maps relies invariably on AC detection methods, most commonly at frequencies in the vicinity of the cantilever’s fundamental

Inorganic Janus particles for biomedical applications

• Isabel Schick,
• Steffen Lorenz,
• Dominik Gehrig,
• Stefan Tenzer,
• Wiebke Storck,
• Karl Fischer,
• Dennis Strand,
• Frédéric Laquai and
• Wolfgang Tremel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2346–2362, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.244

• single particle. De Gennes was one of the first to point out the significance and potential of Janus particles in his Nobel lecture entitled “Soft Matter” in 1991 [21]. Eponym is the two-faced Roman god Janus, the god of beginning and ending, doors and gates [22]. Initiated by the lecture of de Gennes, a

Nanobioarchitectures based on chlorophyll photopigment, artificial lipid bilayers and carbon nanotubes

• Marcela Elisabeta Barbinta-Patrascu,
• Stefan Marian Iordache,
• Ana Maria Iordache,
• Nicoleta Badea and
• Camelia Ungureanu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2316–2325, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.240

• could open new perspectives for biomedical and biotechnological applications. The increased interest in use of phospholipids is due to the fact that they are basic structural components of biomembranes and artificial lipid membranes (liposomes). Liposomes are spherical, soft-matter vesicles composed of

Near-field photochemical and radiation-induced chemical fabrication of nanopatterns of a self-assembled silane monolayer

• Ulrich C. Fischer,
• Carsten Hentschel,
• Florian Fontein,
• Linda Stegemann,
• Christiane Hoeppener,
• Harald Fuchs and
• Stefanie Hoeppener

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1441–1449, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.156

• Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC) and Jena Center for Soft Matter (JCSM), Friedrich Schiller University, Humboldtstr. 10, 07743 Jena, Germany 10.3762/bjnano.5.156 Abstract A general concept for parallel near-field photochemical and radiation-induced chemical processes for the fabrication of nanopatterns of a self

Single-asperity contact mechanics with positive and negative work of adhesion: Influence of finite-range interactions and a continuum description for the squeeze-out of wetting fluids

• Martin H. Müser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 419–437, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.50

Unlocking higher harmonics in atomic force microscopy with gentle interactions

• Sergio Santos,
• Victor Barcons,
• Josep Font and
• Albert Verdaguer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 268–277, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.29

• orthogonality. Furthermore 2(N−1) observables, i.e., higher harmonic amplitudes and phases, are made available even with peak forces no higher than 200 pN, as they are required [25][39] for high resolution and minimally invasive imaging of soft matter. Thermal fluctuations are also considered here in order to

• , harmonic amplitudes rapidly decrease with increasing harmonic number particularly when imaging soft matter [6][15][46]. The main discussion above has focused on externally driving higher harmonics to amplitudes that could be experimentally detected. Then, once these amplitudes are sufficiently high, the

Peak forces and lateral resolution in amplitude modulation force microscopy in liquid

• Horacio V. Guzman and
• Ricardo Garcia

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 852–859, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.96

• consequence, the Tatara model allows a maximum vertical deformation equal to Reff and is particularly suited to describe large deformations (with respect to the original size) of relatively soft matter, in which a vertical force generates both vertical and lateral deformations. To apply contact mechanics

Dynamic nanoindentation by instrumented nanoindentation and force microscopy: a comparative review

• Sidney R. Cohen and
• Estelle Kalfon-Cohen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 815–833, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.93

• , and for seeing heterogeneities at the nanoscale, as well as local effects which occur due to a vertical polymer confinement [5]. The time dimension is of particular use in determining the viscoelastic response, which cannot be neglected in analysis of many polymers, biomaterials, and other soft matter

Low-dose patterning of platinum nanoclusters on carbon nanotubes by focused-electron-beam-induced deposition as studied by TEM

• Xiaoxing Ke,
• Carla Bittencourt,
• Sara Bals and
• Gustaaf Van Tendeloo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 77–86, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.9

• . Ke, S. Bals and G. Van Tendeloo appreciate financial support from the European Union under the Seventh Framework Program (Integrated Infrastructure Initiative N. 262348 European Soft Matter Infrastructure, ESMI). X. Ke and G. Van Tendeloo are grateful to the ERC advanced grant “COUNTATOM”. S. Bals

Towards atomic resolution in sodium titanate nanotubes using near-edge X-ray-absorption fine-structure spectromicroscopy combined with multichannel multiple-scattering calculations

• Carla Bittencourt,
• Peter Krüger,
• Maureen J. Lagos,
• Xiaoxing Ke,
• Gustaaf Van Tendeloo,
• Chris Ewels,
• Polona Umek and
• Peter Guttmann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 789–797, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.88

• des Matériaux de Nantes (IMN), Université de Nantes, CNRS, Nantes, France Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Center of Excellence NAMASTE, Jamova cesta 39, 10000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Institute for Soft Matter and

X-ray absorption spectroscopy by full-field X-ray microscopy of a thin graphite flake: Imaging and electronic structure via the carbon K-edge

• Carla Bittencourt,
• Adam P. Hitchock,
• Xiaoxing Ke,
• Gustaaf Van Tendeloo,
• Chris P. Ewels and
• Peter Guttmann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 345–350, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.39

• Jean Rouxel (IMN), Université de Nantes, CNRS, Nantes, France Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Institute for Soft Matter and Functional Materials, D-12489 Berlin, Germany 10.3762/bjnano.3.39 Abstract We demonstrate that near-edge X-ray-absorption fine-structure spectra

Pulse-response measurement of frequency-resolved water dynamics on a hydrophilic surface using a Q-damped atomic force microscopy cantilever

• Masami Kageshima

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 260–266, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.29

• studying the dynamical properties of matter, especially so-called soft matter. It is remarkable that the time-scales of hydration dynamics reported, based on AFM [11][13][15][19] and other mechanical measurements [20][21], differ by orders of magnitude from even those reported from conventional macroscopic

• water using the AFM have mostly been carried out only at a single frequency. As a matter of course, interest is oriented toward the mapping of the frequency-resolved viscoelasticity spectrum. The number of reports of the frequency-resolved viscoelasticity analysis of soft matter using the AFM is quite

• limited [22][23][24][25]. Using the method of exciting the AFM cantilever with a well-characterized magnetic force [26][27], attempts have been made to measure the frequency-resolved viscoelasticity spectrum of soft-matter systems. The most straightforward approach is a frequency-domain measurement, in