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

• of the NP, which is influenced by its physicochemical composition, (ii) the interface between the solid NP and the surrounding liquid environment, where notable changes occur upon interaction, and (iii) the contact zone between the solid–liquid interface and biological substrates (Figure 2) [22]. In

unDrift: A versatile software for fast offline SPM image drift correction

• Tobias Dickbreder,
• Franziska Sabath,
• Lukas Höltkemeier,
• Ralf Bechstein and
• Angelika Kühnle

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 1225–1237, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.101

• ]. Hence, many processes relevant at room temperature or elevated temperatures are impossible to study in a cryogenic environment. The same applies to SPM studies at the solid–liquid interface. For these measurements, the effect of thermal drift needs to be compensated. A variety of different strategies

Two-dimensional molecular networks at the solid/liquid interface and the role of alkyl chains in their building blocks

• Suyi Liu,
• Yasuo Norikane and
• Yoshihiro Kikkawa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 872–892, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.72

• this review, we focus on the role of alkyl chains in the formation of ordered 2D assemblies at the solid/liquid interface. The alkyl chain effects on the 2D assemblies are introduced together with examples documented in the past decades. Keywords: alkyl chains; scanning tunneling microscopy; self

• -assembly; solid/liquid interface; two-dimensional networks; Introduction The fabrication of ordered nanostructures using the concept of nanoarchitectonics [1][2][3][4] for various applications such as nanomachines, nanoelectronics, catalysis, and nanopatterning remains challenging [5][6][7]. Design and

• instruments as well as thermally stable samples that do not decompose under sublimation during sample preparation. By contrast, STM at the solid/liquid interface is efficient for various sample types and requires only a simple apparatus [24]. Physisorbed monolayers at the solid/liquid interface have been

Temperature and chemical effects on the interfacial energy between a Ga–In–Sn eutectic liquid alloy and nanoscopic asperities

• Yujin Han,
• Pierre-Marie Thebault,
• Corentin Audes,
• Xuelin Wang,
• Haiwoong Park,
• Jian-Zhong Jiang and
• Arnaud Caron

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 817–827, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.72

• drop is not disrupted during application onto a substrate. In contrast, when the oxide skin breaks, new oxide forms at the solid–liquid interface with a substrate, which results in adhesion. Also, the wetting of a liquid Ga–In alloy has been related to the adsorption energy of gallium on three

A review on slip boundary conditions at the nanoscale: recent development and applications

• Ruifei Wang,
• Jin Chai,
• Bobo Luo,
• Xiong Liu,
• Jianting Zhang,
• Min Wu,
• Mingdan Wei and
• Zhuanyue Ma

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1237–1251, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.91

• reservoirs; Introduction A basic postulate in the study and design of macroscopic fluidic systems based on the knowledge of fluid mechanics is that the no-slip boundary condition is valid at the solid–liquid interface [1]. In the last two centuries, this no-slip boundary condition has been successfully

• microscopic description. In 1823, Navier proposed the partial slip boundary condition, and the concept of slip length b was introduced to reflect the amount of liquid slip at a given surface. The slip length is the distance beyond the solid–liquid interface where the liquid velocity linearly extrapolates to

• experience a slippage [80]. In addition, the hydrodynamic slippage at the solid–liquid interface can in turn largely enhance the electro-osmotic velocity, which increases the urgency for a deep research on the liquid slippage phenomena in electrokinetics. Owing to the direct influence of surface charge

Molecular assemblies on surfaces: towards physical and electronic decoupling of organic molecules

• Sabine Maier and
• Meike Stöhr

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 950–956, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.71

• electronically decoupled single molecules and molecular assemblies on surfaces. Several decoupling strategies at the solid–vacuum and solid–liquid interface were explored to elucidate structural, electronic, vibronic, and chemical properties of decoupled molecular structures. Physical decoupling by molecular

• molecular design, the built-in functionality of the active part of the molecule can be preserved upon adsorption on a surface. An example of the preservation of catalytic properties is demonstrated for the redox behavior of manganese porphyrins at the solid–liquid interface. Redox reactions at the axial

• this Thematic Issue discuss structural templating effects at the solid–liquid interface by systematically looking at the influence of organic decoupling layers. Reynaerts et al. [76] investigated the suitability of long-chain alkanes as physical decoupling layers from a graphite surface. The occurrence

The preparation temperature influences the physicochemical nature and activity of nanoceria

• Robert A. Yokel,
• Wendel Wohlleben,
• Johannes Georg Keller,
• Matthew L. Hancock,
• Jason M. Unrine,
• D. Allan Butterfield and
• Eric A. Grulke

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 525–540, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.43

• +, consistent with the interpretation that nanoceria dissolution occurs at the solid–liquid interface [14]. Cerium ions may then complex with phosphate. Nanoceria dissolution is pH-dependent ([14][39][70] and Figure 11). Nanoceria dissolution presumably results from an interaction between the hydrogen ion and

Walking energy harvesting and self-powered tracking system based on triboelectric nanogenerators

• Mingliang Yao,
• Guangzhong Xie,
• Qichen Gong and
• Yuanjie Su

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1590–1595, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.141

• totally different from its application in the previously reported work [34]. In the latter, the undulated elastic electrode configuration was utilized to harvest the impact from the water waves together with a solid–liquid interface generator to collect the electrostatic energy from the water body. In

Role of redox-active axial ligands of metal porphyrins adsorbed at solid–liquid interfaces in a liquid-STM setup

• Thomas Habets,
• Sylvia Speller and
• Johannes A. A. W. Elemans

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1264–1271, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.110

• active acetate instead of chloride axial ligands, the currents remained absent. Keywords: manganese; porphyrins; redox reactions; scanning tunneling microscopy; solid–liquid interface; Introduction Manganese(III) porphyrins are well-known catalysts for the epoxidation of alkenes [1][2][3][4]. The

• single-molecule level, employing scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) [7][8][9]. Since our aim was to stay as close as possible to the laboratory conditions at which catalysis takes place (typically in an organic solvent under ambient conditions), we carried out our STM studies at a solid–liquid interface

• ) center to Mn(II), or (ii) the surface actively reduces MnTUPCl by donating an electron, followed by dissociation of a chloride anion. In this paper, we investigate in more detail the role of the axially coordinating Cl ligand of MnTUPCl at a solid–liquid interface in a liquid-STM setup. By systematically

A 3D-polyphenylalanine network inside porous alumina: Synthesis and characterization of an inorganic–organic composite membrane

• Jonathan Stott and
• Jörg J. Schneider

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 938–951, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.78

• roughness of the outer surface [52][53][54]. where θ is the Young contact angle on smooth surfaces, rf is the roughness ratio, which is defined by the ratio of the true surface area and the apparent surface area of the solid–liquid interface, and f is the fraction of the projected area of the solid that is

Capillary force-induced superlattice variation atop a nanometer-wide graphene flake and its moiré origin studied by STM

• Loji K. Thomas and
• Michael Reichling

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 804–810, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.80

• -sized graphene flake wherein we have induced a further rotation of the flake utilizing the capillary forces at play at a solid–liquid interface using STM tip motion. We propose a more “realistic” tip–surface meniscus relevant to STM at solid–liquid interfaces and show that the capillary force is

• sufficient to account for the total expenditure of energy involved in the process. Keywords: capillary force; graphene; graphite; HOPG; moiré; solid–liquid interface; STM; superlattice; Introduction Graphite is a layered material with graphene sheets arranged in ABAB stacking. HOPG is an ordered form of

• direction (numbered (1)) and folding axis (numbered (2)) along two arm-chair crystallographic directions that differ by 120°, in agreement with previous studies [5][9][21][34]. Theory There are three significant forces existing at a solid–liquid interface [17]: (a) van der Waals; (b) electrostatic

Interface conditions of roughness-induced superoleophilic and superoleophobic surfaces immersed in hexadecane and ethylene glycol

• Yifan Li,
• Yunlu Pan and
• Xuezeng Zhao

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2504–2514, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.250

• slip length is negative and decreases with an increasing root mean squared (RMS) roughness of surfaces, as the increasing roughness enhances the area with discontinuous slip at the solid–liquid interface. The underlying mechanisms are analyzed. The amplitude parameters of surface roughness could

• interfaces. Keywords: boundary slip; roughness; superoleophilic; superoleophobic; Introduction In micro/nanofluidic systems, the increasing surface to volume ratio leads to unignorable fluid drag at the solid–liquid interface. The reduction of fluid drag is an important issue to improve the efficiency of

• liquid delivery in confined systems in biological, chemical and medical applications [1]. Interface conditions can affect fluid drag in micro/nanofluidic systems. First introduced by Navier, the slip boundary condition in hydrodynamics suggests that the velocity of fluid flow at a solid–liquid interface

Ester formation at the liquid–solid interface

• Nguyen T. N. Ha,
• Thiruvancheril G. Gopakumar,
• Nguyen D. C. Yen,
• Carola Mende,
• Lars Smykalla,
• Maik Schlesinger,
• Roy Buschbeck,
• Tobias Rüffer,
• Heinrich Lang,
• Michael Mehring and
• Michael Hietschold

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2139–2150, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.213

• ] and at the solid–liquid interface [21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. Nath et al. showed the coadsorption of TMA with alcohols at an alcohol/graphite interface [26][27]. Although an ester formation is expected when mixing alcohol and acid, in situ ester formation was not found in their experiments under

• the solid–liquid interface. Initial efforts have been made to perform chemical reactions leading to covalently stabilized adlayers at metal crystal/UHV interfaces [2][10][11][12]. However, the size of covalently linked domains is often limited in UHV due to low diffusion of the components forming the

A comparative study of the nanoscale and macroscale tribological attributes of alumina and stainless steel surfaces immersed in aqueous suspensions of positively or negatively charged nanodiamonds

• Colin K. Curtis,
• Antonin Marek,
• Alex I. Smirnov and
• Jacqueline Krim

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2045–2059, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.205

• complex solid–liquid–nanoparticle interface may be unknown, changes in the quality factor reflect outright the frictional resistance forces at the interface, and in particular whether the combined resistance to shear motion at the solid–liquid interface. Frequency shifts due to changes in temperature and

• resistance to shear motion at the solid liquid interface were observed upon an introduction of the +ND. Such changes might result from loosely bound particles enabling some decoupling of the mass of the fluid surrounding the QCM with no significant reductions in the friction energy losses at the interface

• explained by the suspended −ND nanoparticles acting as a lubricious slurry reducing resistance at the solid–liquid interface through potentially electrostatic repulsion with the rest of the −NDs in the surrounding suspension [20][43]. This suggestion, which is somewhat analogous to boundary lubrication and

The effect of the electrical double layer on hydrodynamic lubrication: a non-monotonic trend with increasing zeta potential

• Dalei Jing,
• Yunlu Pan and
• Xiaoming Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1515–1522, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.152

• pairs of ceramics which have numerous applications of water as a lubricant. EDL is a physical structure spontaneously formed near the charged solid–liquid interface due to the electrostatic interaction between the charged interface and free ions within the liquid when the interface is charged due to

• the coordinate perpendicular to the lower bearing surface, ζ is the zeta potential at the solid–liquid interface and h is the lubricant film thickness. By solving the modified Navier–Stokes equation describing the velocity field of the lubricant flowing in a 1D parallel plate channel with a height of

• the EDL on modifying the conventional Reynolds equation, analyzing the hydrodynamic lubrication. They found that the minimum lubricant film thickness increased with the increasing absolute value of zeta potential (an important parameter of EDL to manifest the surface charge at the solid–liquid

Streptavidin-coated gold nanoparticles: critical role of oligonucleotides on stability and fractal aggregation

• Roberta D'Agata,
• Pasquale Palladino and
• Giuseppe Spoto

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1–11, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.1

• –liquid interface [41][42][43][44][45][46][47]. When confined at the solid–liquid interface the whole interaction is influenced by factors that significantly affect the kinetics of the reaction. In particular, rate constants of the streptavidin–biotin dissociation in solution are smaller by a factor

• properties of AuNP-SA-BiotinDNA, the competitive displacement of the biotinylated oligonucleotide from functionalized AuNPs was carried out. The dissociation of the very strong streptavidin–biotin complex (Kd ≈ 4 × 10−14 M) has been widely investigated both in homogeneous solution as well as at the solid

Evolution of the graphite surface in phosphoric acid: an AFM and Raman study

• Rossella Yivlialin,
• Luigi Brambilla,
• Gianlorenzo Bussetti,
• Matteo Tommasini,
• Andrea Li Bassi,
• Carlo Spartaco Casari,
• Matteo Passoni,
• Franco Ciccacci,
• Lamberto Duò and
• Chiara Castiglioni

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1878–1884, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.180

• roughness. This result suggests that, despite of the good graphite delamination yield, the microscopic processes occurring at the solid–liquid interface could be different from those described in the case of H2SO4 and HClO4 solutions. In this paper, we focus our investigation on the processes occurring at

Characterization of spherical domains at the polystyrene thin film–water interface

• Khurshid Ahmad,
• Xuezeng Zhao,
• Yunlu Pan and
• Danish Hussain

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 581–590, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.51

• example, to study boundary slip and micro-/nanobubble formation [15][16][17][18][19]. Nanobubbles are gaseous domains that may be found at a solid–liquid interface. Over the past few decades, dedicated research has been carried out on nanobubbles at the solid–liquid interface. AFM has been proven to be a

Rigid multipodal platforms for metal surfaces

• Michal Valášek,
• Marcin Lindner and
• Marcel Mayor

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 374–405, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.34

• surface, by replacing the S–H bonds with S–metal bonds. The three-point chemisorption of these tripods was confirmed by PM-IRRAS, which showed the absence of a S–H stretching band at ca. 2570 cm−1. Furthermore, the initial STM analysis of SAMs prepared from 17 at the solid–liquid interface revealed the

Electroviscous effect on fluid drag in a microchannel with large zeta potential

• Dalei Jing and
• Bharat Bhushan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2207–2216, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.226

• surface charge, boundary slip, nanobubble and surface roughness, which can be neglected in macroscale fluidics, are believed to significantly affect the micro/nano fluid flow [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. When a droplet of certain liquid contacts with a solid surface, the solid–liquid interface

• can become spontaneously charged based on different mechanisms, such as adsorption of ions or deionization [5][14][15][16]. The charged solid–liquid interface affects the ion distribution and causes local net charge in the liquid. Because of the electrostatic interaction, the counter-ions (ions having

• electroosmotic and pressure-driven flow in a microchannel with no slip condition. In addition, the electrical conductivity of the electrolyte is related to the ionic concentration of the electrolyte, thus, the ions redistribution caused by the charged solid–liquid interface results in the change of the

Nanostructured superhydrophobic films synthesized by electrodeposition of fluorinated polyindoles

• Gabriela Ramos Chagas,
• Thierry Darmanin and
• Frédéric Guittard

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2078–2087, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.212

• Wenzel equation [36] (cos θ = r·cos θY, where r is a roughness parameter), the surface roughness can increase θ, but only if θY > 90°. Hence, it is possible to have an extremely high θwater, but the contact angle hysteresis (H) is usually high because the surface roughness increases also the solid–liquid

• interface and thereby, increasing the adhesion between the water drop and the surface. Only the Cassie–Baxter equation [37] (cos θ = rf·f·cos θY + f − 1, where rf is the roughness ratio of the substrate wetted by the liquid, f the solid fraction and (1 − f) the air fraction) can predict the

Electrocatalysis on the nm scale

• R. Jürgen Behm

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1008–1009, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.103

• description of processes occurring at the electrochemical solid–liquid interface. The experimental methods provide, at least in principle, the opportunity to gain insight into the processes occurring at the solid–electrolyte interface on an unprecedented, atomic/molecular level. The theory has not only

• approaches for a more realistic modeling of the electrochemical solid–liquid interface from first principles. Although there is still a long way to go, it is not unrealistic to assume that an atomic/molecular scale understanding of the elementary processes occurring at the electrochemical interface (similar

Automatic morphological characterization of nanobubbles with a novel image segmentation method and its application in the study of nanobubble coalescence

• Yuliang Wang,
• Huimin Wang,
• Shusheng Bi and
• Bin Guo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 952–963, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.98

• -range attractive hydrophobic forces [19][20]. The coalescence of NBs on hydrophobic surfaces is believed to form a gas bridge and leads to long-range attractive forces [19][21]. They are also believed to be the reason for the breakdown of the no-slip boundary condition at the solid–liquid interface on

In situ scanning tunneling microscopy study of Ca-modified rutile TiO₂(110) in bulk water

• Giulia Serrano,
• Beatrice Bonanni,
• Tomasz Kosmala,
• Marco Di Giovannantonio,
• Ulrike Diebold,
• Klaus Wandelt and
• Claudio Goletti

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 438–443, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.44

• microscopy; solid/liquid interface; titanium dioxide reconstruction; Introduction Metal oxide surfaces (in particular titanium dioxide (TiO2) surfaces) covered by an alkaline-earth-metal overlayer have been investigated in recent years in experiments [1][2][3][4][5] and theoretical studies [6], considering

Kelvin probe force microscopy in liquid using electrochemical force microscopy

• Liam Collins,
• Stephen Jesse,
• Jason I. Kilpatrick,
• Alexander Tselev,
• M. Baris Okatan,
• Sergei V. Kalinin and
• Brian J. Rodriguez

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 201–214, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.19

• (KPFM) has emerged as a powerful technique for probing electric and transport phenomena at the solid–gas interface. The extension of KPFM capabilities to probe electrostatic and electrochemical phenomena at the solid–liquid interface is of interest for a broad range of applications from energy storage

• properties at the solid–liquid interface. Keywords: diffuse charge dynamics; double layer charging; electrochemical force microscopy; electrochemistry; Kelvin probe force microscopy; Introduction Many important physical, chemical and biological processes including wetting, adsorption, electronic transfer

• and catalysis take place at the solid–liquid interface [1][2]. Very often these processes involve charge storage through the formation of electric double layers adjacent to an electrode surface (i.e., capacitive storage) and/or transfer of electrons across an electrode–electrolyte interface (i.e