Field-controlled ultrafast magnetization dynamics in two-dimensional nanoscale ferromagnetic antidot arrays

• Anulekha De,
• Sucheta Mondal,
• Sourav Sahoo,
• Saswati Barman,
• Yoshichika Otani,
• Rajib Kumar Mitra and
• Anjan Barman

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• 2D-PBC. Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial supports from S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (grant no. SNB/AB/12-13/96) and Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (grant No.SR/NM/NS-09/2011 (G)). A.D. and S.M. would like to acknowledge

Review on nanoparticles and nanostructured materials: history, sources, toxicity and regulations

• Jaison Jeevanandam,
• Ahmed Barhoum,
• Yen S. Chan,
• Alain Dufresne and
• Michael K. Danquah

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1050–1074, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.98

Mechanistic insights into plasmonic photocatalysts in utilizing visible light

• Kah Hon Leong,
• Azrina Abd Aziz,
• Lan Ching Sim,
• Pichiah Saravanan,
• Min Jang and
• Detlef Bahnemann

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• Society of Chemistry. Photodegradation of GO in the presence of an electron donor (Ag NPs). Reprinted with permission from [95], copyright 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry. (a) Pure metal nanoparticles (NPs) without any semiconductor. (b) Metal NPs partially embedded into the semiconductor and partially

Green synthesis of fluorescent carbon dots from spices for in vitro imaging and tumour cell growth inhibition

• Nagamalai Vasimalai,
• Vânia Vilas-Boas,
• Juan Gallo,
• María de Fátima Cerqueira,
• Mario Menéndez-Miranda,
• José Manuel Costa-Fernández,
• Lorena Diéguez,
• Begoña Espiña and
• María Teresa Fernández-Argüelles

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• Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) for her PhD grant SFRH/BD/82556/2011.

Engineering of oriented carbon nanotubes in composite materials

• Razieh Beigmoradi,
• Abdolreza Samimi and
• Davod Mohebbi-Kalhori

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 415–435, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.41

• of Advanced Materials. Schematic of a general dielectrophoresis (DEP) system to fabricate the oriented CNT patterns by an AC electric field. The SEM image of the aligned CNTs adapted with permission from [115], copyright 2011 American Chemical Society. XRD results and SEM images of CNTs with various

Review: Electrostatically actuated nanobeam-based nanoelectromechanical switches – materials solutions and operational conditions

• Liga Jasulaneca,
• Jelena Kosmaca,
• Raimonds Meija,
• Jana Andzane and
• Donats Erts

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 271–300, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.29

Dielectric properties of a bisimidazolium salt with dodecyl sulfate anion doped with carbon nanotubes

• Doina Manaila Maximean,
• Viorel Cîrcu and
• Constantin Paul Ganea

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 164–174, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.19

• and CNT-doped ILC. Acknowledgements Constantin Paul Ganea thanks the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research for financial support under PN16-480101 of CORE Program. Viorel Cîrcu acknowledges the funding from UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0384. Doina Manaila Maximean thanks Ligia

Review on optofluidic microreactors for artificial photosynthesis

• Xiaowen Huang,
• Jianchun Wang,
• Tenghao Li,
• Jianmei Wang,
• Min Xu,
• Weixing Yu,
• Abdel El Abed and
• Xuming Zhang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 30–41, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.5

• ) Concept and (B) besign of microreactor in which the cofactor regeneration takes place in the light-dependent reaction zone and the enzymatic synthesis in the light-independent zone. Adapted from [88], copyright 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry. Microfluidic chip based artificial photosystem I. (A

Synthesis of metal-fluoride nanoparticles supported on thermally reduced graphite oxide

• Alexa Schmitz,
• Kai Schütte,
• Vesko Ilievski,
• Juri Barthel,
• Laura Burk,
• Rolf Mülhaupt,
• Junpei Yue,
• Bernd Smarsly and
• Christoph Janiak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2474–2483, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.247

• Suzuki–Miyaura coupling reaction [14]. In 2011, metal carbonyls in dispersion with TRGO and ionic liquid (IL) were exposed to short low-energy microwave irradiation. The resulting Ru@TRGO and Rh@TRGO particles had high catalytic hydrogenation activity [12]. Metallic nanoparticles on graphene have

Evaluating the toxicity of TiO₂-based nanoparticles to Chinese hamster ovary cells and Escherichia coli: a complementary experimental and computational approach

• Alicja Mikolajczyk,
• Natalia Sizochenko,
• Ewa Mulkiewicz,
• Anna Malankowska,
• Michal Nischk,
• Przemyslaw Jurczak,
• Seishiro Hirano,
• Grzegorz Nowaczyk,
• Adriana Zaleska-Medynska,
• Jerzy Leszczynski,
• Agnieszka Gajewicz and
• Tomasz Puzyn

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2171–2180, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.216

• predicted values for cytotoxicity of TiO2-based NPs. Correlations value for each type of equation. Acknowledgements E.M., A.M., M.N., P.J., S.H., A.Z.-M., J.L., A.G., T.P. acknowledge the funding received from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES) under Grant Agreement

Synthesis and characterization of noble metal–titania core–shell nanostructures with tunable shell thickness

• Bartosz Bartosewicz,
• Marta Michalska-Domańska,
• Malwina Liszewska,
• Dariusz Zasada and
• Bartłomiej J. Jankiewicz

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• spectra and TBT concentration information. Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Polish National Science Centre [grant no. 2011/03/D/ST5/06038]. The TRPS instrument used in this research was obtained with funds from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education grant for investment in

Identifying the nature of surface chemical modification for directed self-assembly of block copolymers

• Laura Evangelio,
• Federico Gramazio,
• Matteo Lorenzoni,
• Michaela Gorgoi,
• Francisco Miguel Espinosa,
• Ricardo García,
• Francesc Pérez-Murano and
• Jordi Fraxedas

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• the projects CoLiSA (FP7-ICT-2013-11) and SNM (FP7-ICT-2011-8) and from MINECO (Nanointegra, TEC2015-69864-R). Financial support under the CALIPSO Programme (HZBPHOTONS_CALIPSO-96) is highly appreciated. ICN2 acknowledges support from the Severo Ochoa Program (MINECO, Grant SEV-2013-0295) and from the

Two-dimensional carbon-based nanocomposites for photocatalytic energy generation and environmental remediation applications

• Suneel Kumar,
• Ashish Kumar,
• Ashish Bahuguna,
• Vipul Sharma and
• Venkata Krishnan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1571–1600, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.159

Parylene C as a versatile dielectric material for organic field-effect transistors

• Tomasz Marszalek,
• Maciej Gazicki-Lipman and
• Jacek Ulanski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1532–1545, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.155

• amplitude map of the Parylene C/glass interface (left, bottom). Boundary box indicates the size of the volume 2000 × 2000 × 208 µm. Zoom-in image (right). Coating defects and gas chambers are clearly visible. Reprinted with the permission from [68], copyright 2011 Springer. Volumetric reconstruction of the

• ], copyright 2011 Springer. Transfer characteristics recorded under ambient conditions of a fullerene transistor without encapsulation (a), encapsulated with 1 μm thick layer of Parylene C (b) and encapsulated with 0.5 μm thick layer of Parylene C followed by 0.5 μm layer of benzocyclobutene (c). Reprinted

Atomic structure of Mg-based metallic glass investigated with neutron diffraction, reverse Monte Carlo modeling and electron microscopy

• Rafał Babilas,
• Dariusz Łukowiec and
• Laszlo Temleitner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1174–1182, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.119

• coordination numbers (N) of Mg65Cu20Y10Ni5 glass. Acknowledgements The work was financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland as the statutory financial grant of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering SUT in 2016 and partially by the National Science Centre under research project no.: 2011

The integration of graphene into microelectronic devices

• Guenther Ruhl,
• Sebastian Wittmann,
• Matthias Koenig and
• Daniel Neumaier

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• . Schematic illustration of dry and wet transfer processes. (a) Dry transfer onto shallow depressions. Wet transfer onto (b) perforated substrates and (c) flat substrates. The boxes with dashed lines in (a3) and (a4) show magnified views. Reprinted with permission from [19], copyright 2011 American Chemical

• CxHy size and silanol group density (expected). Reprinted with permission from [45], copyright 2011 AIP Publishing. (a) Schematic showing the layers of material used in fabrication of a back-gated graphene RF-transistor. (b) Transfer function of the transistor before and after passivation. Reproduced

Needs and challenges for assessing the environmental impacts of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs)

• Michelle Romero-Franco,
• Hilary A. Godwin,
• Muhammad Bilal and
• Yoram Cohen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 989–1014, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.101

• product meets the definition of “nano-relevant” using the European Union regulatory recommendation of 2011 [57]. According to this recommendation, a nanomaterial is defined as “an unknown material containing primary particles in an unbound state or as an aggregate or as an agglomerate and where, for 50

BTEX detection with composites of ethylenevinyl acetate and nanostructured carbon

• Santa Stepina,
• Astrida Berzina,
• Gita Sakale and
• Maris Knite

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 982–988, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.100

• detect gasoline and BTEX vapours and could be applied in future for fuel quality control. Schematic structure and dimensions of an EVA–CB sample. Reproduced with permission from [20], copyright 2011 Versita Warsaw and Springer-Verlag Wien. Expected relative change of the electrical resistance as a

Recombinant DNA technology and click chemistry: a powerful combination for generating a hybrid elastin-like-statherin hydrogel to control calcium phosphate mineralization

• Mohamed Hamed Misbah,
• Mercedes Santos,
• Luis Quintanilla,
• Christina Günter,
• Matilde Alonso,
• Andreas Taubert and
• José Carlos Rodríguez-Cabello

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 772–783, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.80

• -2011-278557, PITN-GA-2012-317306 and MSCA-ITN-2014-642687), the MINECO of the Spanish Government (MAT2013-42473-R and MAT2013-41723-R) and the Junta de Castilla y León (VA244U13, VA313U14 and GRS/516/A/10), Spain. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, TA571/11-1), and the University of Potsdam are

Selective detection of Mg²⁺ ions via enhanced fluorescence emission using Au–DNA nanocomposites

• Tanushree Basu,
• Khyati Rana,
• Niranjan Das and
• Bonamali Pal

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• the change in fluorescence quenching due to the interaction of the DNA–Ag nanocluster with Hg2+ ions in water. Also, Ma and co-workers reported the emission modulation of DNA-templated fluorescent Ag nanocomposites by divalent Mg2+ ions in 2011 [7]. Presently, there are many biosensors which are based

Modeling adsorption of brominated, chlorinated and mixed bromo/chloro-dibenzo-p-dioxins on C₆₀ fullerene using Nano-QSPR

• Piotr Urbaszek,
• Agnieszka Gajewicz,
• Celina Sikorska,
• Maciej Haranczyk and
• Tomasz Puzyn

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• energies for all chlorinated and/or brominated dibenzo-p-dioxin congeners are provided for training and validation sets and for the prediction set. Acknowledgements This material is based on research sponsored by the Polish National Science Center (grant no. UMO-2011/01/M/NZ7/01445). M.H. acknowledges

Vapor deposition routes to conformal polymer thin films

• Priya Moni,
• Ahmed Al-Obeidi and
• Karen K. Gleason

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 723–735, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.76

• initiator. Parts a) and b) reprinted with permission from [25], copyright 2010 John Wiley and Sons. c) Reprinted with permission from [21], copyright 2008 John Wiley and Sons. d) Reprinted with permission from [24], copyright 2011 American Chemical Society. a) Step coverage as function of aspect ratio and

• ], copyright 2011 American Chemical Society. SEM images of iCVD pEGDA on micro-trenches with aspect ratios of a) 1.4 b) 3.5, c) 5.5 and d) 8.4. e) Cross-sectional SEM of 25 µm stainless-steel wire with 16 µm fluoropolymer coating formed via iCVD. f) iCVD pDMAMS on nylon fiber ion beam ablated to reveal

Synthesis of graphene–transition metal oxide hybrid nanoparticles and their application in various fields

• Arpita Jana,
• Elke Scheer and
• Sebastian Polarz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 688–714, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.74

Photocatalysis applications of some hybrid polymeric composites incorporating TiO₂ nanoparticles and their combinations with SiO₂/Fe₂O₃

• Andreea Laura Chibac,
• Tinca Buruiana,
• Violeta Melinte and
• Emil C. Buruiana

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 272–286, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.30

• the financial support offered by CNCSIS-UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0164 (40/5.10.2011).

Nanocrystalline TiO₂/SnO₂ heterostructures for gas sensing

• Barbara Lyson-Sypien,
• Anna Kusior,
• Mieczylaw Rekas,
• Jan Zukrowski,
• Marta Gajewska,
• Katarzyna Michalow-Mauke,
• Thomas Graule,
• Marta Radecka and
• Katarzyna Zakrzewska

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 108–122, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.12

• : specific surface area. Theoretical and experimental results of power law analysis. Acknowledgements This work has been financed by the National Science Centre, Poland grant decision DEC-2011/03/B/ST7/01840. M Radecka has performed her research within National Science Centre, Poland project DEC-2012/07/B