Extended iron phthalocyanine islands self-assembled on a Ge(001):H surface

• Rafal Zuzak,
• Marek Szymonski and
• Szymon Godlewski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 232–241, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.19

• , Poland (2019/35/B/ST5/02666) and the EU project PAMS (610446). The STM experiments were carried out using equipment purchased with financial support from the European Regional Development Fund within the framework of the Polish Innovation Economy Operational Program (contract no. POIG.02.01.00-12-023/08

Paper-based triboelectric nanogenerators and their applications: a review

• Jing Han,
• Nuo Xu,
• Yuchen Liang,
• Mei Ding,
• Junyi Zhai,
• Qijun Sun and
• Zhong Lin Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 151–171, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.12

The role of gold atom concentration in the formation of Cu–Au nanoparticles from the gas phase

• Yuri Ya. Gafner,
• Svetlana L. Gafner,
• Darya A. Ryzkova and
• Andrey V. Nomoev

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 72–81, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.6

• study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant No. 19-48-190002) and by the Russian Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 0336-2019-0008).

Nanocasting synthesis of BiFeO₃ nanoparticles with enhanced visible-light photocatalytic activity

• Thomas Cadenbach,
• Maria J. Benitez,
• A. Lucia Morales,
• Cesar Costa Vera,
• Luis Lascano,
• Francisco Quiroz,
• Alexis Debut and
• Karla Vizuete

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1822–1833, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.164

• Quito’s Collaboration Grant 2018 and POLI Grant 2019 programs.

Molecular dynamics modeling of the influence forming process parameters on the structure and morphology of a superconducting spin valve

• Alexander Vakhrushev,
• Aleksey Fedotov,
• Vladimir Boian,
• Roman Morari and
• Anatolie Sidorenko

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1776–1788, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.160

• authors are thankful to Prof. Lenar Tagirov and Prof. Alexander Golubov for useful discussions. Funding This study was financially supported by the project 0427-2019-0029 Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Study of the laws of formation and calculation of macroparameters of nanostructures and

Functional nanostructures for electronics, spintronics and sensors

• Anatolie S. Sidorenko

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1704–1706, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.152

• international SPINTECH conference “NANO-2019: Limits of Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies” and the summer school it followed, “S/F Hybrid Structures for Spintronics”, that took place in September 2019 in Chisinau, Moldova. Presented by many of the participants of the conference and lecturers of the summer school

• experienced experts from 15 countries who presented novel, original results at the NANO-2019 conference and those who submitted valuable contributions to this issue. We believe that this thematic issue will attract the attention of scientists, technologists, and engineers and will be useful for a broad

Design of V-shaped cantilevers for enhanced multifrequency AFM measurements

• Mehrnoosh Damircheli and
• Babak Eslami

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1525–1541, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.135

• dynamic properties. Geometrical specifications provided by manufacturer. Constants for Equation 22. Supporting Information Supporting Information File 164: Simulated tip–sample force interactions. Funding This project was funded by Provost Grant 2019-20 and Faculty Development Grant 2020-21 from Widener

Antimicrobial metal-based nanoparticles: a review on their synthesis, types and antimicrobial action

• Matías Guerrero Correa,
• Fernanda B. Martínez,
• Cristian Patiño Vidal,
• Camilo Streitt,
• Juan Escrig and
• Carol Lopez de Dicastillo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1450–1469, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.129

• , Lopez de Dicastillo et al. (2018, 2019) have recently developed hollow titanium dioxide nanotubes and nanospheres through the deposition of tetrakis(dimethylamide) titanium and water, as precursors, on polymeric structures obtained via electrospinning. The resulting hollow nanotubes and nanospheres had

• et al. (2019) used fruit peel waste to synthesize silver nanoparticles with antimicrobial activity against foodborne pathogens [93]. Ibrahim et al. (2015) have also synthesized spherical silver nanoparticles (23.7 nm) by using banana peels. These Ag NPs have exhibited antimicrobial activity against

• ]. Chen et al. (2019) also developed an antimicrobial-based biocomposite containing Ag NPs with good antibacterial properties against E. coli and S. aureus, as shown by the disk diffusion method [102]. Copper nanoparticles are nanomaterials with good chemical stability, heat resistance, and excellent

One-step synthesis of carbon-supported electrocatalysts

• Sebastian Tigges,
• Nicolas Wöhrl,
• Ivan Radev,
• Ulrich Hagemann,
• Markus Heidelmann,
• Thai Binh Nguyen,
• Stanislav Gorelkov,
• Stephan Schulz and
• Axel Lorke

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1419–1431, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.126

• reach a value of $9.5 billion USD by 2024, resulting in a compound annual growth rate of 13.2% during 2019–2024 [1]. Especially in the transport industry, fuel cells are expected to play a significant economic and ecological role when it comes to environmentally friendly energy production due to their

Nonadiabatic superconductivity in a Li-intercalated hexagonal boron nitride bilayer

• Kamila A. Szewczyk,
• Izabela A. Domagalska,
• Artur P. Durajski and
• Radosław Szczęśniak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1178–1189, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.102

• connecting two boron atoms in the upper and lower layers of hBN, which results from the low electronegativity of boron atoms. From the experimental point of view, it is worth paying attention to the results of research conducted in 2019 by S. Moriyama and co-workers [50]. A superconducting state has been

Photothermally active nanoparticles as a promising tool for eliminating bacteria and biofilms

• Mykola Borzenkov,
• Piersandro Pallavicini,
• Angelo Taglietti,
• Laura D’Alfonso,
• Maddalena Collini and
• Giuseppe Chirico

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1134–1146, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.98

• activity against Gram-negative (E. coli) and Gram-positive (S. aureus) bacterial strains. In order to overcome the NIR laser limits and to irradiate larger areas, the nanocages were used to induce the photothermal sterilization upon solar light irradiation [75]. In a very recent article, published in 2019

• P. aeruginosa biofilm growth. Another recent study, also published in 2019, validated an exogenous antibacterial agent consisting of zinc-doped Prussian blue nanoparticles against the methicillin-resistant S. aureus in vitro and in a rat model for a cutaneous wound infection [77]. The authors

• nanotubes functionalized with NIR-absorbing fluorophores was introduced in a work published in 2019 [88]. This nanohybrid platform was found to be an effective photothermal agent against bacteria. Temperatures as high as 92 °C were observed after 15 min of NIR laser irradiation (808 nm, 1 W/cm2), resulting

Applications of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles in drug and therapeutic delivery, and biotechnological advancements

• Maria Suciu,
• Corina M. Ionescu,
• Alexandra Ciorita,
• Septimiu C. Tripon,
• Dragos Nica,
• Hani Al-Salami and
• Lucian Barbu-Tudoran

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1092–1109, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.94

• of 2000–2019. Review Benefits of SPIONs or what makes SPIONs such a promising aspect for therapeutics and adjunct treatments Firstly, certain SPIONs are already clinically approved for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) [24][25][26]. For this application, SPIONs have been functionalized with dextran

• the environment. Why is it so difficult to assess the safety of SPIONs? There are literary thousands of papers that analyze the effects of SPIONs in biological settings (11640 according to WoS and 10790 according to Medline search, in the period between 2000 and 2019; Figure 2). Each paper brings new

Hexagonal boron nitride: a review of the emerging material platform for single-photon sources and the spin–photon interface

• Stefania Castelletto,
• Faraz A. Inam,
• Shin-ichiro Sato and
• Alberto Boretti

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 740–769, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.61

Adsorptive removal of bulky dye molecules from water with mesoporous polyaniline-derived carbon

• Hyung Jun An,
• Jong Min Park,
• Nazmul Abedin Khan and
• Sung Hwa Jhung

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 597–605, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.47

• experimental procedure “Adsorption of dyes from water” and additional experimental results. Funding This research was supported by Kyungpook National University Development Project Research Fund, 2019.

Identification of physicochemical properties that modulate nanoparticle aggregation in blood

• Ludovica Soddu,
• Duong N. Trinh,
• Eimear Dunne,
• Dermot Kenny,
• Giorgia Bernardini,
• Ida Kokalari,
• Arianna Marucco,
• Marco P. Monopoli and
• Ivana Fenoglio

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 550–567, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.44

• (CNPs) were produced starting from glucose using a one-step hydrothermal process as previously described by Kokalari et al. 2019 [24]. Briefly, glucose was dissolved in 50 mL of ultrapure water followed by the addition of 15 mg of sodium polyacrilate. The solution was introduced in a pressure reactor

• EPSPG/2019/511).

Luminescent gold nanoclusters for bioimaging applications

• Nonappa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 533–546, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.42

• adapted and panel 2B is reused with permission from [83], copyright 2012 American Chemical Society. Figure panels 2C–E are reused with permission from [84], copyright 2019 Americal Chemical Society. Schematic representation of AuNCIA in the detection of HIV-1 p24 antigen inspired by [85]. Cellular

• cells treated with the PML-MF nanocarriers. Figure panels 5A–C are reused with permission from [90], copyright 2019 Americal Chemical Society. A) Confocal fluorescent microscopy images showing the metabolism of Au-BSA NCs and Au-NAC-CS NCs in living Hela cells beginning 1 h after incubation and imaged

• permission from [53], copyright 2019 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. In vivo bioimaging using luminescent AuNCs. A) NIR fluorescence imaging of BALB/c mouse treated with the Au-BSA NCs. The blue line shows the autofluorescence and Au-BSA NCs signal in red in the fluorescence spectra. B) In vivo

Multilayer capsules made of weak polyelectrolytes: a review on the preparation, functionalization and applications in drug delivery

• Varsha Sharma and
• Anandhakumar Sundaramurthy

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 508–532, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.41

High dynamic resistance elements based on a Josephson junction array

• Konstantin Yu. Arutyunov and
• Janne S. Lehtinen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 417–420, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.32

• the structure. (b) Dynamic resistance Rdyn ≡ dV/dI obtained by numeric differentiation of the I–V dependence. Funding The article was prepared within the framework of the Academic Fund Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in 2019–2020 (grant No. 19-01-050) and

Rational design of block copolymer self-assemblies in photodynamic therapy

• Maxime Demazeau,
• Laure Gibot,
• Anne-Françoise Mingotaud,
• Patricia Vicendo,
• Clément Roux and
• Barbara Lonetti

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 180–212, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.15

Recent progress in perovskite solar cells: the perovskite layer

• Xianfeng Dai,
• Ke Xu and
• Fanan Wei

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 51–60, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.5

• , light-emitting diodes and photodetectors. Reproduced with permission from [63], copyright 2019 Royal Society of Chemistry. Scanning electron microscopy images of perovskite films prepared by the antisolvent deposition method treated with different solvents: (a) without antisolvent, (b) toluene, (c

Synthesis of amorphous and graphitized porous nitrogen-doped carbon spheres as oxygen reduction reaction catalysts

• Maximilian Wassner,
• Markus Eckardt,
• Andreas Reyer,
• Thomas Diemant,
• Michael S. Elsaesser,
• R. Jürgen Behm and
• Nicola Hüsing

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1–15, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.1

• ). SEM images of (a) the carbon spheres with Fe2O3 before acid treatment, (b, c) the different non-graphitized and (d, e) the graphitized carbon spheres. TEM images of (a–d) the NCS catalysts and (e–h) the g-NCS catalysts. The TEM images in (a–d) are reprinted with permission from [27], copyright 2019

• , NCS-850, NCS-700 and NCS-550 are reprinted with permission from [27], copyright 2019 Elsevier. Raman spectra of the NCS and g-NCS catalysts (the x-axis represents the Raman shift relative to the excitation laser wavelength given in cm−1). N2 sorption isotherms of the (a) NCS and (b) g-NCS catalyst

The different ways to chitosan/hyaluronic acid nanoparticles: templated vs direct complexation. Influence of particle preparation on morphology, cell uptake and silencing efficiency

• Arianna Gennari,
• Julio M. Rios de la Rosa,
• Erwin Hohn,
• Maria Pelliccia,
• Enrique Lallana,
• Roberto Donno,
• Annalisa Tirella and
• Nicola Tirelli

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2594–2608, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.250

Fully amino acid-based hydrogel as potential scaffold for cell culturing and drug delivery

• Dávid Juriga,
• Evelin Sipos,
• Orsolya Hegedűs,
• Gábor Varga,
• Miklós Zrínyi,
• Krisztina S. Nagy and
• Angéla Jedlovszky-Hajdú

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2579–2593, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.249

Long-term stability and scale-up of noncovalently bound gold nanoparticle-siRNA suspensions

• Anna V. Epanchintseva,
• Julia E. Poletaeva,
• Dmitrii V. Pyshnyi,
• Elena I. Ryabchikova and
• Inna A. Pyshnaya

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2568–2578, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.248

Advanced hybrid nanomaterials

• Andreas Taubert,
• Fabrice Leroux,
• Pierre Rabu and
• Verónica de Zea Bermudez

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2563–2567, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.247

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