Quantification of lead through rod-shaped silver-doped zinc oxide nanoparticles using an electrochemical approach

• Ravinder Lamba,
• Gaurav Bhanjana,
• Neeraj Dilbaghi,
• Vivek Gupta and
• Sandeep Kumar

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• . (2025) https://BioRender.com/g83x775. Afterwards it was adapted with PowerPoint. This content is not subject to CC BY 4.0. Funding The authors thank the MoE, Government of India, for a research grant vide letter No. SPARC/2019-2020/P2065/SL, dated 28-07-2023. Mr. Ravinder Lamba is thankful to UGC, Govt

• providing a research initiation grant (No. PEC/DSR&IC/54 dated 10-04-2024) and the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India for the DST-PURSE grant (No. SR/PURSE/2024/350 dated 14-10-2024).

Biomimetics and bioinspired surfaces: from nature to theory and applications

• Rhainer Guillermo Ferreira,
• Thies H. Büscher,
• Manuela Rebora,
• Poramate Manoonpong,
• Zhendong Dai and
• Stanislav N. Gorb

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• applications have been published with his participation. Sadly, the biomimetic community lost this major personality on the 5th of September, 2024, who passed away at the age of 90 years old. We dedicate this thematic issue on biomimetic surfaces to commemorate his achievements and motivation. Werner

Emerging strategies in the sustainable removal of antibiotics using semiconductor-based photocatalysts

• Yunus Ahmed,
• Keya Rani Dutta,
• Parul Akhtar,
• Md. Arif Hossen,
• Md. Jahangir Alam,
• Obaid A. Alharbi,
• Hamad AlMohamadi and
• Abdul Wahab Mohammad

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 264–285, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.21

Synthesis and the impact of hydroxyapatite nanoparticles on the viability and activity of rhizobacteria

• Bedah Rupaedah,
• Indrika Novella,
• Atiek Rostika Noviyanti,
• Diana Rakhmawaty Eddy,
• Anna Safarrida,
• Abdul Hapid,
• Zhafira Amila Haqqa,
• Suryana Suryana,
• Irwan Kurnia and
• Fathiyah Inayatirrahmi

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• rhizobacteria. Acknowledgements This research received funding through RP ORNM BRIN (National Research and Innovation Agency) 2024 under contract number B-1484/III.10/TK.01.00/2/2024 and also RIIM Batch 4 2024 under contract number 37/II.7/HK/2023. The research was also supported by the facilities and

• , University of Indonesia. Funding This research received funding through RP ORNM BRIN (National Research and Innovation Agency) 2024 under contract number B-1484/III.10/TK.01.00/2/2024 and also RIIM Batch 4 2024 under contract number 37/II.7/HK/2023.

Recent advances in photothermal nanomaterials for ophthalmic applications

• Jiayuan Zhuang,
• Linhui Jia,
• Chenghao Li,
• Rui Yang,
• Jiapeng Wang,
• Wen-an Wang,
• Heng Zhou and
• Xiangxia Luo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 195–215, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.16

• ]. The Global Sight Database reported that, in 2020, the world had 43.3 million individuals suffering from blindness and an additional 295 million with moderate to severe visual impairments [2]. The past decade has seen notable advancements in ophthalmic treatment techniques, including the widespread

A review of metal-organic frameworks and polymers in mixed matrix membranes for CO₂ capture

• Charlotte Skjold Qvist Christensen,
• Nicholas Hansen,
• Mahboubeh Motadayen,
• Nina Lock,
• Martin Lahn Henriksen and
• Jonathan Quinson

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 155–186, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.14

Clays enhanced with niobium: potential in wastewater treatment and reuse as pigment with antibacterial activity

• Silvia Jaerger,
• Patricia Appelt,
• Mario Antônio Alves da Cunha,
• Fabián Ccahuana Ayma,
• Ricardo Schneider,
• Carla Bittencourt and
• Fauze Jacó Anaissi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 141–154, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.13

• +) favoring of the BEOx catalyst hindered its photocatalytic activity [8]. In a study by Asencios et al. (2019) [8], niobium-modified clay was explored for the photocatalysis of rhodamine B dye, yielding removal rates close to 95%. Additionally, Lacerda et al. (2020) [25] achieved up to 90% efficiency in the

Comparison of organic and inorganic hole transport layers in double perovskite material-based solar cell

• Deepika K and
• Arjun Singh

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• 25.44% with VOC = 1.1027 V, JSC = 27.89 mA/cm2, and FF = 82.69%, suggesting the suitability of La2NiMnO6. In 2024, Singh et al. proposed a planar DPSC with La2NiMnO6 as absorber layer, Cu2O as HTL, and WS2 as ETL, and several parameters of the absorber layer including thickness, defect density, series

• are given in Table 1. Experimental Verification In 2024, a lead-free DPSC was both designed and fabricated. The included LNMO material was synthesized using the sol–gel method. The experimental and simulated J–V curves showed PCEs of 4.5 % and 10%, respectively. For the simulation, TiO2 was used as

Characterization of ZnO nanoparticles synthesized using probiotic Lactiplantibacillus plantarum GP258

• Prashantkumar Siddappa Chakra,
• Aishwarya Banakar,
• Shriram Narayan Puranik,
• Vishwas Kaveeshwar,
• C. R. Ravikumar and
• Devaraja Gayathri

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• abstract was created in BioRender. Hasan, S. (2024) https://BioRender.com/s21n461. Funding The authors gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support provided by 'KSTePS, DST, Govt. of Karnataka' (Karnataka Science and Technology Promotion Society, Department of Science and Technology) Vision Group

Instance maps as an organising concept for complex experimental workflows as demonstrated for (nano)material safety research

• Benjamin Punz,
• Maja Brajnik,
• Joh Dokler,
• Jaleesia D. Amos,
• Litty Johnson,
• Katie Reilly,
• Anastasios G. Papadiamantis,
• Amaia Green Etxabe,
• Lee Walker,
• Diego S. T. Martinez,
• Steffi Friedrichs,
• Klaus M. Weltring,
• Nazende Günday-Türeli,
• Claus Svendsen,
• Christine Ogilvie Hendren,
• Mark R. Wiesner,
• Martin Himly,
• Iseult Lynch and
• Thomas E. Exner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 57–77, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.7

Advanced atomic force microscopy techniques V

• Philipp Rahe,
• Ilko Bald,
• Nadine Hauptmann,
• Regina Hoffmann-Vogel,
• Harry Mönig and
• Michael Reichling

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• , Nijmegen, and Münster, December 2024

Bioinspired nanofilament coatings for scale reduction on steel

• Siad Dahir Ali,
• Mette Heidemann Rasmussen,
• Jacopo Catalano,
• Christian Husum Frederiksen and
• Tobias Weidner

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• bound to polymer, glass, and textiles. Figure 1A was adapted with permission from [5], Copyright 2020 American Chemical Society. This content is not subject to CC BY 4.0. (A) Rendering of medium-pressure, medium-temperature, constant sheer stress device. Maximum operating temperature of 200 °C and

Orientation-dependent photonic bandgaps in gold-dust weevil scales and their titania bioreplicates

• Norma Salvadores Farran,
• Limin Wang,
• Primoz Pirih and
• Bodo D. Wilts

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 1–10, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.1

• -dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, using Ansys Lumerical 2024 R1 (Ansys Inc., Canonsburg, PA, USA). The diamond nanostructures were approximated via an idealized single diamond network approximated by triply periodic minimal surface model from its level-set equation [52]. Diamond

Mechanistic insights into endosomal escape by sodium oleate-modified liposomes

• Ebrahim Sadaqa,
• Satrialdi,
• Fransiska Kurniawan and
• Diky Mudhakir

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1667–1685, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.131

Attempts to preserve and visualize protein corona on the surface of biological nanoparticles in blood serum using photomodification

• Julia E. Poletaeva,
• Anastasiya V. Tupitsyna,
• Alina E. Grigor’eva,
• Ilya S. Dovydenko and
• Elena I. Ryabchikova

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• photomodification to obtain NPs bearing a full protein corona on the lipid surface, the proteins of which could be identified by mass analysis [23]. Hossein Mohammad-Beigi and colleagues published another approach in 2020 [7]. They used methods of click chemistry to fix proteins on the surface of silica and

Fabrication of hafnium-based nanoparticles and nanostructures using picosecond laser ablation

• Abhishek Das,
• Mangababu Akkanaboina,
• Jagannath Rathod,
• R. Sai Prasad Goud,
• Kanaka Ravi Kumar,
• Raghu C. Reddy,
• Ratheesh Ravendran,
• Katia Vutova,
• S. V. S. Nageswara Rao and
• Venugopal Rao Soma

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1639–1653, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.129

Heterogeneous reactions in a HFCVD reactor: simulation using a 2D model

• Xochitl Aleyda Morán Martínez,
• José Alberto Luna López,
• Zaira Jocelyn Hernández Simón,
• Gabriel Omar Mendoza Conde,
• José Álvaro David Hernández de Luz and
• Godofredo García Salgado

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1627–1638, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.128

• 00335-PV/2024 and CONAHCYT scholarship CVU:461337. Acknowledgements The authors thankfully acknowledge computer resources, technical advice, and support provided by Laboratorio Nacional de Supercómputo del sureste de México (LNS), member of the CONAHCYT National Laboratories Group, under project no

Biomimetic nanocarriers: integrating natural functions for advanced therapeutic applications

• Hugo Felix Perini,
• Beatriz Sodré Matos,
• Carlo José Freire de Oliveira and
• Marcos Vinicius da Silva

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• (B), characteristics of cell membranes (C), and biomimetic nanocarriers (D). Created in BioRender. Sodré, B. (2024) https://BioRender.com/n85g617. This content is not subject to CC BY 4.0. Action of biomimetic nanocarriers. Inorganic and organic nanoparticles with transport function (A); target with

• potential binding sites for drug delivery; (B) and coated nanocarriers improve functional activity and carrier efficiency (C). Created in BioRender. Sodré, B. (2024) https://BioRender.com/c20d446. This content is not subject to CC BY 4.0. Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to the Fundação

• Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG). The graphical abstract was created in BioRender. Sodré, B. (2024) https://BioRender.com

Natural nanofibers embedded in the seed mucilage envelope: composite hydrogels with specific adhesive and frictional properties

• Agnieszka Kreitschitz and
• Stanislav N. Gorb

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• Action TD0906 (COST-STSM-ECOST-STSM-TD0906-020513-030288), by the German Academic Exchange Office (DAAD) (grant No. 323/A/10/02617), German Science Foundation (DFG) - the Short Stay Program No. GZ: GO 995/21-1, AOBJ: 611170 and funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

Liver-targeting iron oxide nanoparticles and their complexes with plant extracts for biocompatibility

• Shushanik A. Kazaryan,
• Seda A. Oganian,
• Gayane S. Vardanyan,
• Anatolie S. Sidorenko and
• Ashkhen A. Hovhannisyan

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• and toxicity effects; as of May 2024, the website clinicaltrials.gov listed data on the development of 51 clinical protocols involving iron oxides NPs [25][26][27]. Surface chemistry and delivery route of MNPs affect their biodistribution patterns and circulation time in the body [28]. It is known

Facile synthesis of size-tunable L-carnosine-capped silver nanoparticles and their role in metal ion sensing and catalytic degradation of p-nitrophenol

• Akash Kumar,
• Ridhima Chadha,
• Abhishek Das,
• Nandita Maiti and
• Rayavarapu Raja Gopal

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1576–1592, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.124

Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles derived from algae and their larvicidal properties to control Aedes aegypti

• Matheus Alves Siqueira de Assunção,
• Douglas Dourado,
• Daiane Rodrigues dos Santos,
• Gabriel Bezerra Faierstein,
• Mara Elga Medeiros Braga,
• Severino Alves Junior,
• Rosângela Maria Rodrigues Barbosa,
• Herminio José Cipriano de Sousa and
• Fábio Rocha Formiga

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1566–1575, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.123

• Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, through the Strategic Projects FCT-MEC UIDB/04539/2020, UIDP/04539/2020, and FCT-CAPES FCT/4990/6/4/2018/S. Acknowledgements The Graphical Abstract was created in BioRender. Rocha Formiga, F. (2024) https

• to be elucidated to obtain a better understanding of their efficacy and safety. “Top-down” and “Bottom-up” approaches for synthesis of silver nanoparticles. Created in BioRender. Rocha Formiga, F. (2024) https://BioRender.com/a60t035. This content is not subject to CC BY 4.0. Green synthesis of

• silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) by seaweeds extracts. Created in BioRender. Rocha Formiga, F. (2024) https://BioRender.com/q62f029. This content is not subject to CC BY 4.0. Potential of silver nanoparticles to be used in vector control against Aedes aegypti, according to [63]. Created in BioRender. Rocha

Ultrablack color in velvet ant cuticle

• Vinicius Marques Lopez,
• Wencke Krings,
• Juliana Reis Machado,
• Stanislav Gorb and
• Rhainer Guillermo-Ferreira

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• were adapted (cropped) from https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/62624578, https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/62624589, https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/62624582, and https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/62624568 (© 2020 shrike2, published by iNaturalist, distributed under the terms of the Creative

• permission to use their photographs in this manuscript. This work is based on the doctoral thesis of the first author (V. M. Lopez, “Evolutionary ecology of antipredator coloration in velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae),” University of São Paulo, 2024). Funding This study was supported by the National

• Council for Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq (proc.142299/2020-0) and Minas Gerais State Research Support Foundation - FAPEMIG (proc. APQ-05401-23). RGF thanks CNPq (Proc. 312847/2022-0) for a productivity grant. We thank the Public Prosecutor's Office of Minas Gerais (MPMG, through the

The round-robin approach applied to nanoinformatics: consensus prediction of nanomaterials zeta potential

• Dimitra-Danai Varsou,
• Arkaprava Banerjee,
• Joyita Roy,
• Kunal Roy,
• Giannis Savvas,
• Haralambos Sarimveis,
• Ewelina Wyrzykowska,
• Mateusz Balicki,
• Tomasz Puzyn,
• Georgia Melagraki,
• Iseult Lynch and
• Antreas Afantitis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1536–1553, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.121

• Information File 25: Details of the AdaBoost regression model presented following the QMRF format. Supporting Information File 26: Details of the stacked PLS and MLP q-RASPR models presented following the QMRF format. Funding Initial consensus models were developed during the EU Horizon 2020 project

Electrochemical nanostructured CuBTC/FeBTC MOF composite sensor for enrofloxacin detection

• Thi Kim Ngan Nguyen,
• Tien Dat Doan,
• Huy Hieu Luu,
• Hoang Anh Nguyen,
• Thi Thu Ha Vu,
• Quang Hai Tran,
• Ha Tran Nguyen,
• Thanh Binh Dang,
• Thi Hai Yen Pham and
• Mai Ha Hoang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1522–1535, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.120