Functionalized nanostructures for enhanced photocatalytic performance under solar light

• Liejin Guo,
• Dengwei Jing,
• Maochang Liu,
• Yubin Chen,
• Shaohua Shen,
• Jinwen Shi and
• Kai Zhang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 994–1004, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.113

• controlled NiS/Cd0.5Zn0.5S photocatalyst. Reprinted from with permission from [29]. Copyright (2010) Elsevier. CdS nanoparticle enwrapped by the surrounding TNTs showed a significant enhancement of charge separation and therefore a high activity. Reproduced with permission from [33]. Copyright (2011) The

Antimicrobial nanospheres thin coatings prepared by advanced pulsed laser technique

• Alina Maria Holban,
• Valentina Grumezescu,
• Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu,
• Bogdan Ştefan Vasile,
• Roxana Truşcă,
• Rodica Cristescu,
• Gabriel Socol and
• Florin Iordache

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 872–880, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.99

• Resources Development, financed from the European Social Fund, and by the Romanian Government under the contract number ID 132397 (ExcelDOC). Also, by the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS-UEFISCDI, projects no. PCCA 153/02.07.2012 and PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0888 (209/5.10.2011).

Manipulation of isolated brain nerve terminals by an external magnetic field using D-mannose-coated γ-Fe₂O₃ nano-sized particles and assessment of their effects on glutamate transport

• Tatiana Borisova,
• Natalia Krisanova,
• Arsenii Borуsov,
• Roman Sivko,
• Ludmila Ostapchenko,
• Michal Babic and
• Daniel Horak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 778–788, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.90

• decapitated. Experimental protocols were approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of the Palladin Institute of Biochemistry (Protocol from 19/09-2011). Isolation of rat brain nerve terminals (synaptosomes) Synaptosomes were prepared from rat brain as described in [30]. Cerebral hemispheres of decapitated

Energy dissipation in multifrequency atomic force microscopy

• Valentina Pukhova,
• Francesco Banfi and
• Gabriele Ferrini

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 494–500, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.57

• from the oscillator parameters (mc/4). Acknowledgements This work has been partially supported by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore through D.2.2 grants and the Fondazione Cariplo through grant ID 2011-0387 Controlled Nanostructures.

Encapsulation of nanoparticles into single-crystal ZnO nanorods and microrods

• Jinzhang Liu,
• Marco Notarianni,
• Llew Rintoul and
• Nunzio Motta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 485–493, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.56

• . Acknowledgements We thank the QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship and financial support of the ARC through the Discovery project DP130102120, and of the Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme Fellowship (PIRSES-GA-2011-295216) within the 7th European Community Framework Programme. Y. Wei is

The softening of human bladder cancer cells happens at an early stage of the malignancy process

• Jorge R. Ramos,
• Joanna Pabijan,
• Ricardo Garcia and
• Malgorzata Lekka

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 447–457, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.52

• statistical analysis. This work was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Consolider Force-For-Future, CSD2010-00024, MAT2009-08650), the project NCN DEC-2011/01/M/ST3/00711 (Poland), and the Cost Action TD1002.

Design criteria for stable Pt/C fuel cell catalysts

• Josef C. Meier,
• Carolina Galeano,
• Ioannis Katsounaros,
• Jonathon Witte,
• Hans J. Bongard,
• Angel A. Topalov,
• Claudio Baldizzone,
• Stefano Mezzavilla,
• Ferdi Schüth and
• Karl J. J. Mayrhofer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 44–67, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.5

Synthesis of indium oxi-sulfide films by atomic layer deposition: The essential role of plasma enhancement

• Cathy Bugot,
• Nathanaëlle Schneider,
• Daniel Lincot and
• Frédérique Donsanti

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 750–757, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.85

• tuned. Keywords: atomic layer deposition; buffer layer; indium oxi-sulfide; plasma enhancement; thin film solar cells; Introduction Chalcopyrite-type thin film solar cells that are based on a Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) absorber have reached high efficiencies, up to 20.3% [1] in 2011 and 20.4% [2] on flexible

A nano-graphite cold cathode for an energy-efficient cathodoluminescent light source

• Alexander N. Obraztsov,
• Victor I. Kleshch and
• Elena A. Smolnikova

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 493–500, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.58

• (Grant PIRSES-GA-2011-295241).

Novel composite Zr/PBI-O-PhT membranes for HT-PEFC applications

• Mikhail S. Kondratenko,
• Igor I. Ponomarev,
• Marat O. Gallyamov,
• Dmitry Y. Razorenov,
• Yulia A. Volkova,
• Elena P. Kharitonova and
• Alexei R. Khokhlov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 481–492, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.57

• 2011-1.2.1-212-022-001) and by the Russian Academy of Sciences within the Basic Research Program of the Presidium No 7. M.S.K., M.O.G., and A.R.Kh. gratefully acknowledge support of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (project RUS 09/036). The authors express their sincere appreciation to

Digging gold: keV He⁺ ion interaction with Au

• Vasilisa Veligura,
• Gregor Hlawacek,
• Robin P. Berkelaar,
• Raoul van Gastel,
• Harold J. W. Zandvliet and
• Bene Poelsema

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 453–460, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.53

• it is backscattered, and some diffuses into the bulk or out of the material. SRIM-2011 [40] has been used to assess the percentage of backscattered helium. A gold slab with a thickness of 200 nm and 105 ions have been used in the calculations. According to these simulations 16% of the incident helium

A highly pH-sensitive nanowire field-effect transistor based on silicon on insulator

• Denis E. Presnov,
• Sergey V. Amitonov,
• Pavel A. Krutitskii,
• Valentina V. Kolybasova,
• Igor A. Devyatov,
• Vladimir A. Krupenin and
• Igor I. Soloviev

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 330–335, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.38

• is partly sponsored by grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (11-02-12122-ofi-m-2011, 11-07-00748) and Ministry of education and science of Russia (GK 16.513.11.3063).

Grating-assisted coupling to nanophotonic circuits in microcrystalline diamond thin films

• Patrik Rath,
• Svetlana Khasminskaya,
• Christoph Nebel,
• Christoph Wild and
• Wolfram H.P. Pernice

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 300–305, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.33

• collected with a second fibre at the output coupling port, the transmitted signal is recorded with a low-noise photoreceiver (New Focus 2011). The device is aligned against the fibre array using a computer-controlled motorized three-axis piezo stage. Typical spectra recorded from devices as shown in Figure

Functionalization of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes

• Eloise Van Hooijdonk,
• Carla Bittencourt,
• Rony Snyders and
• Jean-François Colomer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 129–152, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.14

• surface treatment of non-aligned carbon nanotubes by different plasma technologies was published by Ruelle et al. [22] in 2011. The present review is focused on the different methods available to functionalize vertically aligned carbon nanotubes, including plasma functionalization, wet chemical

Plasmonic oligomers in cylindrical vector light beams

• Mario Hentschel,
• Jens Dorfmüller,
• Harald Giessen,
• Sebastian Jäger,
• Andreas M. Kern,
• Kai Braun,
• Dai Zhang and
• Alfred J. Meixner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 57–65, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.6

• of complex plasmonic oligomers with tailorable optical properties. Adapted with permission from [21]. Copyright (2011) American Chemical Society. (b) Scanning-electron micrographs of oligomers clusters, demonstrating the unique capability of electron-beam lithography to create many of the different

Characterization and properties of micro- and nanowires of controlled size, composition, and geometry fabricated by electrodeposition and ion-track technology

• Maria Eugenia Toimil-Molares

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 860–883, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.97

Effect of spherical Au nanoparticles on nanofriction and wear reduction in dry and liquid environments

• Dave Maharaj and
• Bharat Bhushan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 759–772, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.85

• ], copyright 2011. (b) Showing the process of oil detection with nanoparticles. The carbon-black nanoparticles are coated with an oil-detecting agent. After injection into the ground, the agent is released on contact with hydrocarbons and this is used as an indication of the presence of oil on recovery and

Large-scale analysis of high-speed atomic force microscopy data sets using adaptive image processing

• Blake W. Erickson,
• Séverine Coquoz,
• Jonathan D. Adams,
• Daniel J. Burns and
• Georg E. Fantner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 747–758, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.84

• work has been funded by the following sources: Swiss National Science Foundation (205321_134786), National Institutes of Health under Award No. RO1 GM65354, and the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2011 under grant agreement n° 286146.

The memory effect of nanoscale memristors investigated by conducting scanning probe microscopy methods

• César Moreno,
• Carmen Munuera,
• Xavier Obradors and
• Carmen Ocal

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 722–730, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.82

• JCI-2011-08815.

Channeling in helium ion microscopy: Mapping of crystal orientation

• Vasilisa Veligura,
• Gregor Hlawacek,
• Raoul van Gastel,
• Harold J. W. Zandvliet and
• Bene Poelsema

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 501–506, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.57

• into the vacuum chamber. In addition the samples were cleaned for 15 min in the load lock by using a 10 W air plasma. SRIM-2011 [5] was used to assess the damage caused by the swift helium atoms. The Monte Carlo code was setup to track the full damage cascade and 1 × 106 ions were used. To obtain a

Ultraviolet photodetection of flexible ZnO nanowire sheets in polydimethylsiloxane polymer

• Jinzhang Liu,
• Nunzio Motta and
• Soonil Lee

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 353–359, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.41

• this research. This work was also partially supported by the NIRAP program “Solar Powered Nanosensors” of the Queensland Government and the National Research Foundation of Korea through the Priority Research Centers Program (KRF-2011-0030745)

Nanostructures for sensors, electronics, energy and environment

• Nunzio Motta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 351–352, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.40

• this respect the present Thematic Series is an interesting follow-up to the series “Transport through molecular junctions” published in the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology in 2011 [1]. Many of these advances have been possible thanks to the discovery of new aggregation forms of materials at the

Graphite, graphene on SiC, and graphene nanoribbons: Calculated images with a numerical FM-AFM

• Fabien Castanié,
• Laurent Nony,
• Sébastien Gauthier and
• Xavier Bouju

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 301–311, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.34

• SiC substrate (yellow, silicon atoms; black, carbon atoms). Acknowledgements Authors acknowledge the Agence Nationale de la Recherche with the PNANO project MolSiC (ANR-08-P058-36). This researchers were granted access to the HPC resources of CALMIP under the allocation 2011-[P0832]. F.C. thanks N

Noncontact atomic force microscopy

• Udo D. Schwarz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 172–173, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.17

• conference from this series was held in Lindau, Germany, from September 18–22, 2011. Once again, substantial progress was presented; NC-AFM is now able to quantitatively map three-dimensional force fields of surfaces with atomic resolution in ultrahigh vacuum as well as in liquids, and methodological

Surface functionalization of aluminosilicate nanotubes with organic molecules

• Wei Ma,
• Weng On Yah,
• Hideyuki Otsuka and
• Atsushi Takahara

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 82–100, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.10

• water by electrostatic repulsion; (b) chemisorption of dodecylphosphate onto the outer surface of individually dispersed imogolite nanotubes; (c) purifying the product and solidifying it by freeze-drying. Reprinted with permission from W. Ma et al., Chem. Lett. 2011, 40, 159–161 [33]. © 2011, The

• Chemical Society of Japan. Thermogravimetric profiles of the original imogolite, DDPO4H2, and DDPO4-imogolite in N2 atmosphere at a heating rate of 10 K min−1. High-resolution XPS spectra for Al2p of the original imogolite and DDPO4-imogolite. Adapted with permission from W. Ma et al., Chem. Lett. 2011

• , 40, 159–161 [33]. © 2011, The Chemical Society of Japan. WAXD profiles of (a) original imogolite and (b) DDPO4-imogolite. Adapted with permission from W. Ma et al., Chem. Lett. 2011, 40, 159–161 [33]. © 2011, The Chemical Society of Japan. TEM image of DDPO4-imogolite. Reprinted with permission from