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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

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  • different, forming parallel and V-shaped arrangements, respectively. A wheat-like structure was observed in the 2-HA-OC15 monolayer (Figure 11a–c), containing three different orientations of anthraquinone head groups (arrows A, A′, and B in Figure 11a,b). Lines A and A′ exhibited a V-shaped orientation of
  • phase transition temperature (melting point) for 1-HA-OCn (blue) and 2-HA-OCn (red) as a function of the number of carbon atoms in the alkyl chains. (a–c) Wheat-like structure formed by different orientations of anthraquinone pairs; (d–f) knot-like structure in which the clusters of the anthraquinone
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Published 23 Aug 2023

Biomimetics on the micro- and nanoscale – The 25th anniversary of the lotus effect

  • Matthias Mail,
  • Kerstin Koch,
  • Thomas Speck,
  • William M. Megill and
  • Stanislav N. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 850–856, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.69

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  • -coated artificial leaf surfaces with chemical composition and wettability of wheat (Triticum aestivum) leaves. Such artificial leaves are of interest for in vitro studies of interactions of plant surfaces with living organisms and the non-living environment, as demonstrated by Huth et al. [11], where the
  • artificial leaves were used to investigate the influence of wax chemistry and surface wettability on the development of Blumeria graminis, the pathogenic wheat powdery mildew. In “Interaction between honeybee mandibles and propolis”, Saccardi et al. [12] report on the honeybee propolis, a substance used by
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Published 03 Aug 2023

SERS performance of GaN/Ag substrates fabricated by Ag coating of GaN platforms

  • Magdalena A. Zając,
  • Bogusław Budner,
  • Malwina Liszewska,
  • Bartosz Bartosewicz,
  • Łukasz Gutowski,
  • Jan L. Weyher and
  • Bartłomiej J. Jankiewicz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 552–564, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.46

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  • to the samples fabricated by MS, the surface of the Ag layer obtained by PLD is more developed and structured. As shown in Figure 3, pillars with a Ag layer have shapes similar to wheat ears. The Ag coatings formed on the pillars have preferred growth planes spatially oriented at a specific angle
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Published 03 May 2023

Recent advances in green carbon dots (2015–2022): synthesis, metal ion sensing, and biological applications

  • Aisha Kanwal,
  • Naheed Bibi,
  • Sajjad Hyder,
  • Arif Muhammad,
  • Hao Ren,
  • Jiangtao Liu and
  • Zhongli Lei

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1068–1107, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.93

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  • , wheat straw, and rice straw by Ding et al. These CDs were utilized to detect Fe3+, which could be useful in areas of environmental remediation and medical diagnosis [77]. A hydrothermal technique employing near-critical water has been utilized recently to develop a simple, cost-effective, and
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Published 05 Oct 2022

Design of a biomimetic, small-scale artificial leaf surface for the study of environmental interactions

  • Miriam Anna Huth,
  • Axel Huth,
  • Lukas Schreiber and
  • Kerstin Koch

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 944–957, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.83

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  • composition play significant roles. Here, the ability of self-assembly of wax after isolation from the leaves was used to develop a small-scale wax-coated artificial leaf surface with the chemical composition and wettability of wheat (Triticum aestivum) leaves. By thermal evaporation of extracted plant waxes
  • and adjustment of the evaporated wax amounts, the wettability and chemical character of the microstructure of the surface of wheat leaves were transferred onto a technical surface. For the use of these artificial leaves as a test system for biotic (e.g., germination of fungal pathogens) and non-biotic
  • electron microscopy, gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, and by the determination of water contact angles, contact angle hysteresis, and tilting angles. Wheat leaves of different ages were covered exclusively with wax platelets. The extracted wheat wax was composed of alcohols, aldehydes, esters, and
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Published 13 Sep 2022

Bio-imaging with the helium-ion microscope: A review

  • Matthias Schmidt,
  • James M. Byrne and
  • Ilari J. Maasilta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1–23, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.1

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  • [15]. For this study, the authors used the proximal tubule marker gp330/megalin and wheat germ agglutinin to label surface glycoproteins of the proximal tubule in mouse kidneys. Conjugation to 26 nm colloidal gold allowed the authors to visualise the label with the HIM (Figure 6). Soon afterwards, a
  • abstract of LeTourneau et al. on rhizobacterial biofilms in the proceedings of Microscopy and Microanalytics 2015 [89]. On wheat roots, they grew a phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (PCA)-producing fluorescent pseudomonad strain and an isogenic mutant impaired in the synthesis of PCA. The formation of the
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Published 04 Jan 2021

Cu2O nanoparticles for the degradation of methyl parathion

  • Juan Rizo,
  • David Díaz,
  • Benito Reyes-Trejo and
  • M. Josefina Arellano-Jiménez

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1546–1555, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.137

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  • OPPs will be used worldwide [8]. In Mexico, roughly 5,732 metric tons of MP are mainly used annually for the production of beans, cabbage, soy, wheat, lettuce, and tomatoes [5][6], despite the fact that MP is a forbidden pesticide by the United Nations Rotterdam Convention. Due to the large volumes of
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Published 12 Oct 2020

Microfluidics as tool to prepare size-tunable PLGA nanoparticles with high curcumin encapsulation for efficient mucus penetration

  • Nashrawan Lababidi,
  • Valentin Sigal,
  • Aljoscha Koenneke,
  • Konrad Schwarzkopf,
  • Andreas Manz and
  • Marc Schneider

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2280–2293, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.220

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  • , Germany). Pulmonary human mucus was collected by the endotracheal tube method after informed consent from patients (Winterberg Hospital, Saarbrücken, Germany). AlexaFluor-WGA (wheat germ agglutinin) was purchased from Invitrogen (Oregon, USA). All materials employed in the preparation of nanoparticles
  • mucus without air bubbles was labelled with 1 µL of AlexaFluor-wheat germ agglutinin. Afterwards, the stained mucus was placed in an imaging chamber made by nail polish on a cover slip resulting in an equally thick mucus layer [55]. At time zero, PLGA NPs were added on top of the mucus and z-stacks
  • NPs were imaged along 40 µm of pulmonary human mucus at predetermined time intervals. The mucus was stained with wheat germ agglutinin (green fluorescence). Design and flow pattern of the microfluidic system. Sketch of the reaction scheme for PLGA labelling with rhodamine B. The carboxy group of the
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Published 19 Nov 2019

Serum type and concentration both affect the protein-corona composition of PLGA nanoparticles

  • Katrin Partikel,
  • Robin Korte,
  • Dennis Mulac,
  • Hans-Ulrich Humpf and
  • Klaus Langer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1002–1015, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.101

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  • (DMEM) and all used supplements were received from Biochrom AG. Vectashield® Mounting medium with DAPI was purchased from Vector Laboratories Inc. (Burlingname, USA) and wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) AlexaFluor® 350 from Life Technologies (Carlsbad, USA). All other chemicals and organic solvents were
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Published 06 May 2019

The structural and chemical basis of temporary adhesion in the sea star Asterina gibbosa

  • Birgit Lengerer,
  • Marie Bonneel,
  • Mathilde Lefevre,
  • Elise Hennebert,
  • Philippe Leclère,
  • Emmanuel Gosselin,
  • Peter Ladurner and
  • Patrick Flammang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2071–2086, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.196

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  • the outer parts of adhesive secretory granules. Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and Datura Stramonium lectin (DSL) resulted in a strong labelling in the basal area of the gland cells, but in a weaker staining in the distal gland cell necks (Figure 6C1 and Supporting Information File 1, Figure 2A1–3
  • (VVA), and succinylated wheat germ agglutinin (sWGA), labelled the gland cells at the same area, but in contrast to WGA and DSL, led to a distinct staining of spherical to ellipsoid structures (Figure 6D,E, Supporting Information File 1, Figure 2B–D). For all five lectins, the structures were only
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Published 30 Jul 2018

Surfactant-induced enhancement of droplet adhesion in superhydrophobic soybean (Glycine max L.) leaves

  • Oliver Hagedorn,
  • Ingo Fleute-Schlachter,
  • Hans Georg Mainx,
  • Viktoria Zeisler-Diehl and
  • Kerstin Koch

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2345–2356, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.234

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  • are usually water repellent. Many economically important crops like wheat (Triticum aestivum) or rice (Oryza sativa) are characterized by leaf surfaces with superhydrophobic properties, thus the uptake of water-based agrochemicals, e.g., herbicides, is low [29] because applied droplets are likely to
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Published 08 Nov 2017

Comparison of four functionalization methods of gold nanoparticles for enhancing the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)

  • Paula Ciaurriz,
  • Fátima Fernández,
  • Edurne Tellechea,
  • Jose F. Moran and
  • Aaron C. Asensio

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 244–253, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.27

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  • (adsorption, directional, covalent and a combination thereof). As a result, AuNP probes prepared by direct adsorption were the most effective method. AuNPs probes were then used to detect gliadin, one of the main components of wheat gluten, the protein composite that causes celiac disease. With this optimized
  • , the strategy which demonstrated better sensitivity was used for detection of gliadin from wheat gluten, one of the main proteins of wheat gluten [24]. Gluten refers to a group of proteins contained in wheat, barley and rye and is thought to be the cause of celiac disease (CD). CD is an autoimmune
  • , gliadin. Gliadin (which can be also subdivided into α-gliadin, γ-gliadin and ω-gliadin) is a prolamin protein present in wheat gluten and one of the presumed causes of celiac disease [24]. The official detection method by Codex Alimenatarius Commission is a sandwich ELISA assay. For this reason, it was
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Published 25 Jan 2017

Functional diversity of resilin in Arthropoda

  • Jan Michels,
  • Esther Appel and
  • Stanislav N. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1241–1259, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.115

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  • [1]. They feature a great diversity including well-known examples such as elastin, titin and fibrillin present in vertebrate muscles and connective tissues, byssus and abductin of bivalve molluscs and gluten of wheat [1]. Besides spider silk proteins, resilin is certainly the best-known among the
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Published 01 Sep 2016

Cantilever bending based on humidity-actuated mesoporous silica/silicon bilayers

  • Christian Ganser,
  • Gerhard Fritz-Popovski,
  • Roland Morak,
  • Parvin Sharifi,
  • Benedetta Marmiroli,
  • Barbara Sartori,
  • Heinz Amenitsch,
  • Thomas Griesser,
  • Christian Teichert and
  • Oskar Paris

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 637–644, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.56

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  • , humidity-induced bending of bilayer structures is frequently used for actuation purposes. Prominent examples are the opening of tree cones [5], or the complex movement of the dispersal units of wild wheat [6] and ice plants [7]. In all these systems the movement is caused by the bending of bilayer
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Published 28 Apr 2016

Carbon nano-onions (multi-layer fullerenes): chemistry and applications

  • Juergen Bartelmess and
  • Silvia Giordani

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1980–1998, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.207

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  • 2011 John Wiley and Sons. High-resolution TEM images of pristine CNOs (left). AFM topographs of pristine CNOs deposited on mica (center). Confocal microscopy of C57BL/6 BMDCs incubated in the presence of fluorescein-labelled-CNOs and stained with wheat germ agglutinin-Alexa Fluor594 (red), fluorescein
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Published 04 Nov 2014

Precise quantification of silica and ceria nanoparticle uptake revealed by 3D fluorescence microscopy

  • Adriano A. Torrano and
  • Christoph Bräuchle

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1616–1624, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.173

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  • growth. Before addition to cells, the solution was vortexed for 10 s, treated in an ultrasonic bath for 10 min and vortexed again for 10 s. After the incubation time, and just before measurements, the cell membrane was stained with a solution of 10 µg·mL−1 wheat germ agglutinin, Alexa Fluor® 488 (Life
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Published 23 Sep 2014

In vitro interaction of colloidal nanoparticles with mammalian cells: What have we learned thus far?

  • Moritz Nazarenus,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Mahmoud G. Soliman,
  • Pablo del Pino,
  • Beatriz Pelaz,
  • Susana Carregal-Romero,
  • Joanna Rejman,
  • Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser,
  • Martin J. D. Clift,
  • Reinhard Zellner,
  • G. Ulrich Nienhaus,
  • James B. Delehanty,
  • Igor L. Medintz and
  • Wolfgang J. Parak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1477–1490, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.161

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  • , labelled with different fluorophores (green and magenta)) after 24 h of incubation at a concentration of 1 µg/mL, which are located in individual vesicles. Nuclei are stained with DAPI (blue) and the cell membrane with Wheat Germ Agglutinin (red). Note that due to limited lateral resolution of optical
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Published 09 Sep 2014

Liquid fuel cells

  • Grigorii L. Soloveichik

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1399–1418, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.153

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  • of sugars, glycerol by transesterification of fats and oil triglycerides (biodiesel process), and furfural by hydrolysis of lignocellulose and agricultural byproducts (corncobs, wheat bran, etc.), which makes them especially attractive. In addition to individual compounds, mixtures can be used to
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