Ni nanocrystals on HOPG(0001): A scanning tunnelling microscope study

• Michael Marz,
• Keisuke Sagisaka and
• Daisuke Fujita

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 406–417, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.48

• different mosaic spread were used; however, we did not observe any influence of this in our data and refer to all of them by using the term HOPG substrate.) This setup allows local heating of the sample and avoids contamination from degassing of the surrounding stainless-steel parts. In order to get a clean

Electrospinning preparation and electrical and biological properties of ferrocene/poly(vinylpyrrolidone) composite nanofibers

• Ji-Hong Chai and
• Qing-Sheng Wu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 189–197, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.19

• g in 10 wt % PVP solution. For each solution, they needed to be vigorous stirred for 6 h to a homogeneous orange solution. The obtained solution was then loaded into a plastic syringe equipped with a stainless steel needle with internal diameter of 0.6 mm. In the experiment, a voltage of 13 kV was

Catalytic activity of nanostructured Au: Scale effects versus bimetallic/bifunctional effects in low-temperature CO oxidation on nanoporous Au

• Lu-Cun Wang,
• Yi Zhong,
• Haijun Jin,
• Daniel Widmann,
• Jörg Weissmüller and
• R. Jürgen Behm

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 111–128, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.13

• a length of 90 mm, an outer diameter of 6 mm, and an inner diameter of 4 mm. The catalyst bed was located in its central part, fixed by two stainless steel sieves (Haver & Boecker OHG, transmission 25%). For all measurements, we used a three-zone catalyst bed containing 2 mg of NPG catalyst diluted

Zeolites as nanoporous, gas-sensitive materials for in situ monitoring of DeNO_x-SCR

• Thomas Simons and
• Ulrich Simon

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 667–673, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.76

• ]). For the measurements the IDE chip was placed in a stainless-steel measuring chamber (Figure 1), equipped with a ZnSe window for contactless temperature control by means of a spectral pyrometer (KT 19.82, Heitronics). For temperature regulation of the integrated heater a digital multimeter (Keithley

Nanotribology at high temperatures

• Saurav Goel,
• Alexander Stukowski,
• Gaurav Goel,
• Xichun Luo and
• Robert L. Reuben

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 586–588, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.68

• , Germany, has reversed the roles of the conventionally used cutting tool and the workpiece material and has succeeded in machining a diamond substrate using a steel rod as a tip [9]. This raises a key question concerning the stability of diamond tips during nanoscratch tests at elevated temperatures and

Spontaneous dissociation of Co₂(CO)₈ and autocatalytic growth of Co on SiO₂: A combined experimental and theoretical investigation

• Kaliappan Muthukumar,
• Harald O. Jeschke,
• Roser Valentí,
• Evgeniya Begun,
• Johannes Schwenk,
• Fabrizio Porrati and
• Michael Huth

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 546–555, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.63

• injection system for 30 min, causing a pressure increase to 3 × 10−5 mbar, which dropped within ten minutes to about 6 × 10−6 mbar. The gas injection system employs a stainless-steel precursor capsule with a fine-dosage valve. The precursor temperature was set by the ambient conditions to 27 °C. From the

Colloidal lithography for fabricating patterned polymer-brush microstructures

• Tao Chen,
• Debby P. Chang,
• Rainer Jordan and
• Stefan Zauscher

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 397–403, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.46

• -grade water, dried under a stream of nitrogen, and mounted on steel sample disks prior to AFM measurements. AFM topographic images were collected in contact mode by using V-shaped silicon nitride cantilevers (Nanoprobe, Veeco, spring constant 0.12 N/m; tip radius 20–60 nm) using a MultiMode atomic force

Reduced electron recombination of dye-sensitized solar cells based on TiO₂ spheres consisting of ultrathin nanosheets with [001] facet exposed

• Hongxia Wang,
• Meinan Liu,
• Cheng Yan and
• John Bell

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 378–387, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.44

• magnetic stirring of the mixture of the three components at room temperature. The precursor solution was then transferred to a Teflon-lined stainless steel autoclave (45 mL volume, Parr Instrument Co.) for the hydrothermal reaction. The hydrothermal process was carried out at 200 °C for 24 h in an electric

Structural, electronic and photovoltaic characterization of multiwalled carbon nanotubes grown directly on stainless steel

• Luca Camilli,
• Manuela Scarselli,
• Silvano Del Gobbo,
• Paola Castrucci,
• Eric Gautron and
• Maurizio De Crescenzi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 360–367, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.42

• advantage of the native surface roughness and the iron content of AISI-316 stainless steel to grow multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) by chemical vapour deposition without the addition of an external catalyst. The structural and electronic properties of the synthesized carbon nanostructures have been

• silicon substrate plays an important role in the production of electron–hole pairs. Keywords: carbon nanotubes; electronic properties; heterojunction; photovoltaic; stainless steel; Introduction Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess unique electronic, mechanical and optical properties that make them

• ; however, in some types of applications, such as in field-emission devices, the use of conductive substrates is particularly mandatory [3]. In particular, stainless steel (SS) is one of the most attractive conductive substrates, due to its low price and good processability. Recently, several efforts have

Mechanical characterization of carbon nanomembranes from self-assembled monolayers

• Xianghui Zhang,
• André Beyer and
• Armin Gölzhäuser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 826–833, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.92

• bulge testing in an AFM (NTEGRA, NT-MDT, Russia). The pressure cell was made from a hollow steel cylinder with two side openings for applying and measuring the gas pressure, and one circular opening at the topside, which was sealed by the membrane. In order to establish a gas-tight connection between

An MCBJ case study: The influence of π-conjugation on the single-molecule conductance at a solid/liquid interface

• Wenjing Hong,
• Hennie Valkenier,
• Gábor Mészáros,
• David Zsolt Manrique,
• Artem Mishchenko,
• Alexander Putz,
• Pavel Moreno García,
• Colin J. Lambert,
• Jan C. Hummelen and
• Thomas Wandlowski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 699–713, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.76

• STM-BJ experiments was chosen to scale the traces acquired in the MCBJ setup. Sample preparation For MCBJ experiments, the following sample preparation protocol was applied: The sample templates were spring steel sheets (30 mm × 10 mm with 0.2 mm thickness), which were cleaned in boiling 25% nitric

Femtosecond time-resolved photodissociation dynamics of methyl halide molecules on ultrathin gold films

• Mihai E. Vaida,
• Robert Tchitnga and
• Thorsten M. Bernhardt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 618–627, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.65

• dosed onto the gold substrate at 90 K by means of an UHV compatible pulsed valve that was connected to a stainless steel tube ending close to the surface. The fs pump (266 nm, third harmonic of fundamental, 80 fs, 1 mW/cm² average power, p-polarized) and probe (333 nm central wavelength, tuned by an OPA

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

• Locusta migratoria, forces on the pitcher surface were smaller than those on the smooth steel reference plate [26]. In all these studies, insects were tested walking in the upward direction of the pitcher. Our present data on beetles walking in both upward and downward directions on the intact pitcher are

Determination of object position, vortex shedding frequency and flow velocity using artificial lateral line canals

• Adrian Klein and
• Horst Bleckmann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 276–283, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.32

• vibrating sphere (diameter 1 cm, 50 Hz, 237 µm peak to peak displacement) that was attached to a stainless steel rod (length 10 cm, diameter 1.6 mm). The rod was mounted on a mini-shaker (Ling Dynamic System LTD, model V 101) that rested on a sliding bar assembly allowing for manual adjustment of the sphere

Recrystallization of tubules from natural lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) wax on a Au(111) surface

• Sujit Kumar Dora and
• Klaus Wandelt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 261–267, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.30

• steel base plate, and the first image acquisition started as soon as possible after the chloroform evaporation, typically after 8–10 minutes. AFM images were taken consecutively from the same substrate area over a period of several hours applying a constant scan rate (as denoted in the respective figure

Zirconium nanoparticles prepared by the reduction of zirconium oxide using the RAPET method

• Michal Eshed,
• Swati Pol,
• Aharon Gedanken and
• Mahalingam Balasubramanian

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 198–203, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.23

• reaction of commercial ZrO2 with Mg powder was carried out in a closed stainless steel cell, at 750 °C. On completion of the reaction, the additionally formed MgO is removed by treatment with acid. The characterization of the product was performed by XRD, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, SEM, TEM and

• Temperatures), and is described elsewhere in detail [11]. In general, a stainless steel cell is filled with a single reactant (or a combination of reactants) and heated at an appropriate temperature under its autogenic pressure. The pressure is generated by the thermal dissociation of reactants and the Let-Lok

• observed in the XRD pattern. In addition, XANES measurements found that in the Zr sample at least 75% of the Zr atoms are in the fully reduced Zr0 state. Experimental Chemicals, ZrO2, and Mg, were obtained from Aldrich. A 3 mL closed vessel cell was assembled from stainless steel (made by HAM-LET, Israel

Functional morphology, biomechanics and biomimetic potential of stem–branch connections in Dracaena reflexa and Freycinetia insignis

• Tom Masselter,
• Sandra Eckert and
• Thomas Speck

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 173–185, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.21

• in the main axis that could result as artefacts from the proximity of the branching region to the point where the main axis is cut off. A steel cable connected to the testing machine was placed around the branch (Figure 9). When the cross-head of the testing machine moves upwards, the steel cable

• lateral branch shortly before fracture. Breaking experiments. A critical force Fcrit is applied to a branch of Dracaena reflexa by means of a steel cable connected to an Instron testing device. For technical reasons (direction of movement of the cross-head) the branch–stem-junctions are oriented ‘upside

Fabrication and spectroscopic studies on highly luminescent CdSe/CdS nanorod polymer composites

• Jana Bomm,
• Andreas Büchtemann,
• Angela Fiore,
• Liberato Manna,
• James H. Nelson,
• Diana Hill and
• Wilfried G. J. H. M. van Sark

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 94–100, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.11

• into glass cuvettes and polymerized under a nitrogen atmosphere by illuminating the cuvettes from two sides with UV-A radiation (360 nm) for 15 min. The cuvettes consisted of two glass plates with an elastic distance holder (1 mm or 5 mm) between the plates, which were held together by steel clamps

Enhanced visible light photocatalysis through fast crystallization of zinc oxide nanorods

• Sunandan Baruah,
• Mohammad Abbas Mahmood,
• Myo Tay Zar Myint,
• Tanujjal Bora and
• Joydeep Dutta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 14–20, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.3

• , polypropylene, steel, cotton, amongst others, through proper seeding and hence is suitable for a large number of applications, e.g., wastewater treatment, etc. that is scalable for practical uses. Experimental Materials used Zinc acetate dihydrate [(CH3COO)2Zn·2H2O, Merck], sodium hydroxide [NaOH, Merck], zinc