Au nanostructure fabrication by pulsed laser deposition in open air: Influence of the deposition geometry

• Rumen G. Nikov,
• Anna Og. Dikovska,
• Nikolay N. Nedyalkov,
• Georgi V. Avdeev and
• Petar A. Atanasov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2438–2445, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.242

• Young Scientists Scientific Program, BAS.

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

• after applying a 10 µL droplet of distilled water to the surface. The static contact angle was measured using an OCA 35 goniometer (Dataphysics, Filderstadt, Germany). The droplet shape was recorded with a horizontal CCD camera and was automatically calculated using the Laplace–Young fitting algorithm

Numerical investigation of the tribological performance of micro-dimple textured surfaces under hydrodynamic lubrication

• Kangmei Li,
• Dalei Jing,
• Jun Hu,
• Xiaohong Ding and
• Zhenqiang Yao

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2324–2338, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.232

• independence analysis. Parameters of the CFD simulation. Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51605296), Shanghai Sailing Program (Grant No. 16YF1408300) and Young Teachers Training Program of Shanghai College

Fabrication of gold-coated PDMS surfaces with arrayed triangular micro/nanopyramids for use as SERS substrates

• Jingran Zhang,
• Yongda Yan,
• Peng Miao and
• Jianxiong Cai

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2271–2282, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.227

• the National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professors.

In situ controlled rapid growth of novel high activity TiB₂/(TiB₂–TiN) hierarchical/heterostructured nanocomposites

• Jilin Wang,
• Hejie Liao,
• Yuchun Ji,
• Fei Long,
• Yunle Gu,
• Zhengguang Zou,
• Weimin Wang and
• Zhengyi Fu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2116–2125, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.211

• support from the Program for Guangxi Natural Science Foundation (No. 2014GXNSFFA118004 and No. 2016GXNSFBA380155), Improving the Basic Ability of Young and Middle-aged University Teachers in Guangxi (No.KY2016YB187) and Opening Fund of the Guangxi Key Laboratory of Building New Energy and Energy Saving

Spin-dependent transport and functional design in organic ferromagnetic devices

• Guichao Hu,
• Shijie Xie,
• Chuankui Wang and
• Carsten Timm

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1919–1931, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.192

• , 11674197), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province China (No. ZR2014AM017), the Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province, the Excellent Young Scholars Research Fund of Shandong Normal University, the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments, and the Deutsche

Stick–slip boundary friction mode as a second-order phase transition with an inhomogeneous distribution of elastic stress in the contact area

• Iakov A. Lyashenko,
• Vadym N. Borysiuk and
• Valentin L. Popov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1889–1896, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.189

• and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. I.A.L. and V.N.B. are grateful to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine for financial support under the project for young scientists “Thermodynamic theory of the phase transitions between structural states of the boundary lubricant with spatial

Self-assembly of chiral fluorescent nanoparticles based on water-soluble L-tryptophan derivatives of p-tert-butylthiacalix[4]arene

• Pavel L. Padnya,
• Irina A. Khripunova,
• Olga A. Mostovaya,
• Timur A. Mukhametzyanov,
• Vladimir G. Evtugyn,
• Vyacheslav V. Vorobev,
• Yuri N. Osin and
• Ivan I. Stoikov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1825–1835, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.184

• financially supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (the Agreement No 02.a03.0008), by RFBR (16-33-60141 mol_а_dk) and the Program of the President of the Russian Federation for the State support of young Russian scientists–scholarships (CP-3597.2016.4).

Collembola cuticles and the three-phase line tension

• Håkon Gundersen,
• Hans Petter Leinaas and
• Christian Thaulow

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1714–1722, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.172

• . Acknowledgements A draft of this article was included in the compilation thesis “Natural Superhydrophobic Surfaces – Nanostructures and Wetting States on Collembola Cuticles” by Håkon Gundersen, as doctoral dissertation in December 2016 at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Oxidative stabilization of polyacrylonitrile nanofibers and carbon nanofibers containing graphene oxide (GO): a spectroscopic and electrochemical study

• İlknur Gergin,
• Ezgi Ismar and
• A. Sezai Sarac

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1616–1628, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.161

• power supply (Gamma high voltage research) producing a voltage of 15 kV. Aligned nanofibers were deposited on the rotating drum collector at 21.50 Hz rotating frequency at a distance of 15 cm. After producing the nanofibers, oxidative stabilization was performed at 250 °C for 3 h in air atmosphere and

The effect of the electrical double layer on hydrodynamic lubrication: a non-monotonic trend with increasing zeta potential

• Dalei Jing,
• Yunlu Pan and
• Xiaoming Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1515–1522, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.152

• PBE and varying electrical conductivity. Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51505292 & No. 51505108) and the Young Teachers Training Program of Shanghai, China (No. ZZsl15025).

Adsorption and electronic properties of pentacene on thin dielectric decoupling layers

• Sebastian Koslowski,
• Daniel Rosenblatt,
• Alexander Kabakchiev,
• Klaus Kuhnke,
• Klaus Kern and
• Uta Schlickum

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1388–1395, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.140

• to these values). Experimental values for Ea, Ei, Egap/Egap,0 for pentacene as well as the values for Φ. Φ has been determined experimentally for the KCl layers on the different substrates by I(z) measurements performed within the Ph.D. Thesis of A. Kabakchiev [20]. For h-BN, a literature value is

Scaling law to determine peak forces in tapping-mode AFM experiments on finite elastic soft matter systems

• Horacio V. Guzman

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 968–974, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.98

• approximations have not been designed to describe the forces for finite soft-matter systems in highly damping environments. In this article we use the term soft matter to describe polymeric surfaces and/or biological systems (isolated or packed arrays of proteins) with Young moduli in the range of 30–300 MPa [11

• lower Young’s modulus values of the material. Figure 1b shows the comparison of the parametrical equation and numerical simulations for the whole range of Young moduli between 30 and 300 MPa for Asp = 0.9A0. Figure 1b and Figure 2 compare the parametrical equation of Equation 8 and the corresponding

• agreement between the parametrical equation and the numerical simulations remain within a relative error of 10%. However, the accuracy of the present equation decreases when the set-point amplitude value is reduced below 0.8A0, in particular for soft materials with a Young modulus below 60 MPa. The

Triptycene-terminated thiolate and selenolate monolayers on Au(111)

• Jinxuan Liu,
• Martin Kind,
• Björn Schüpbach,
• Daniel Käfer,
• Stefanie Winkler,
• Wenhua Zhang,
• Andreas Terfort and
• Christof Wöll

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 892–905, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.91

• structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy and thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS). Results Synthesis of Trp1SeAc While the syntheses of the other three target molecules have been described in scientific journals [28][29], Trp1SeAc has until now only been reported in the PhD thesis of one of us (B. S.) [30]. For

• [29]. The synthesis route for Trp1SeAc was newly developed in the doctoral thesis of one of us (B. S.) [30] and is presented here for a first time in a scientific journal. The synthesis starts from 9-(chloromethyl)anthracene (see Scheme S1 and experimental details of the synthesis route in the

Functional dependence of resonant harmonics on nanomechanical parameters in dynamic mode atomic force microscopy

• Federico Gramazio,
• Matteo Lorenzoni,
• Francesc Pérez-Murano,
• Enrique Rull Trinidad,
• Urs Staufer and
• Jordi Fraxedas

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 883–891, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.90

• such parameters [6][7][8][9][10]. The DMT model, which will be used in this work, has the following expression in the repulsive regime: where H is the Hamaker constant, a0 the intermolecular distance, d the tip–sample gap (related to z) and E* the reduced Young modulus, which includes the contribution

• trends are well reproduced by the experiments. As we can notice from the different trends, the 6th harmonic is most sensitive to changes in tip radius for values of tip radius below ca. 10 nm and Young modulus below ca. 20 GPa. If we consider the method for implementing tip radius real time monitoring

• , this will be more effective when sharp (new) tips are imaging stiff samples. Instead, in order to measure the surface Young modulus the modelling shows that the best results will be obtained using larger tip radius (10–15 nm) in order to have an almost constant radius-dependent contribution. So far the

Synthesis of coaxial nanotubes of polyaniline and poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate) by oxidative/initiated chemical vapor deposition

• Alper Balkan,
• Efe Armagan and
• Gozde Ozaydin Ince

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 872–882, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.89

• Sciences) Young Scientist Award Program.

Relationships between chemical structure, mechanical properties and materials processing in nanopatterned organosilicate fins

• Gheorghe Stan,
• Richard S. Gates,
• Qichi Hu,
• Kevin Kjoller,
• Craig Prater,
• Kanwal Jit Singh,
• Ebony Mays and
• Sean W. King

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 863–871, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.88

• , Intel Corporation, Hillsboro OR 97124, USA Logic Technology Development, Intel Corporation, 5200 NE Elam Young Parkway, Hillsboro OR 97124, USA 10.3762/bjnano.8.88 Abstract The exploitation of nanoscale size effects to create new nanostructured materials necessitates the development of an understanding

The role of 2D/3D spin-polarization interactions in hybrid copper hydroxide acetate: new insights from first-principles molecular dynamics

• Ziyad Chaker,
• Guido Ori,
• Mauro Boero and
• Carlo Massobrio

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 857–860, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.86

• –2016) managed by the French National Research Agency.

Dispersion of single-wall carbon nanotubes with supramolecular Congo red – properties of the complexes and mechanism of the interaction

• Anna Jagusiak,
• Barbara Piekarska,
• Tomasz Pańczyk,
• Małgorzata Jemioła-Rzemińska,
• Elżbieta Bielańska,
• Barbara Stopa,
• Grzegorz Zemanek,
• Janina Rybarska,
• Irena Roterman and
• Leszek Konieczny

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 636–648, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.68

• CR/SWNT ratio (1 mg SWNTs + 1 mL of 10 mg/mL CR): CR covers the entire surface of carbon nanotubes, the diameter of the SWNT–CR complex exceeds 40 nm and more. AFM analyses of sodium cholate dispersed SWNTs (1) and SWNT–CR complexes (2); maps of mechanical parameters: (1A; 2A) elasticity (Young

Biological and biomimetic materials and surfaces

• Stanislav Gorb and
• Thomas Speck

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 403–407, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.42

• Barthlott studied the micro- and nanostructures on the surfaces of plant leaves, flowers, seeds and pollen during his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Heidelberg using one of the first scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) available for German botanists. His main interest in these years was plant

Innovations from the “ivory tower”: Wilhelm Barthlott and the paradigm shift in surface science

• Christoph Neinhuis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 394–402, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.41

• the early work of Wilhelm Barthlott. Systematic botany, epicuticular waxes and a paradigm shift in interface science In the 1970th, a new era began for the young Ph.D. student Wilhelm Barthlott at the Institute for Botany of the University of Heidelberg. He received one of the first scanning electron

• appear sooner or later and, who knows, may be some eccentric, spleeny young student is already puzzling about the solution. This is a plea for the largest diversity possible under given circumstances in research and teaching. A reclusive existence in a niche at a university institute, a museum or even a

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

• /ST8/03879. B. Lyson-Sypien acknowledges the project of Ministry of Science and Higher Education (“Dean” Grant for Young Scientists) at the Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications AGH UST.

Graphene–polymer coating for the realization of strain sensors

• Carmela Bonavolontà,
• Carla Aramo,
• Massimo Valentino,
• Giampiero Pepe,
• Sergio De Nicola,
• Gianfranco Carotenuto,
• Angela Longo,
• Mariano Palomba,
• Simone Boccardi and
• Carosena Meola

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 21–27, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.3

• by using the follow relation [11]: where f is the displacement induced by the applied force F. E is the Young modulus and Ics the moment of inertia of the cross section. The lengths l and b are defined in Figure 2. In our case a force of 6 N is enough to induce a slat deflection f = 10 mm, that

Obtaining and doping of InAs-QD/GaAs(001) nanostructures by ion beam sputtering

• Sergei N. Chebotarev,
• Alexander S. Pashchenko,
• Leonid S. Lunin,
• Elena N. Zhivotova,
• Georgy A. Erimeev and
• Marina L. Lunina

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 12–20, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.2

• financially supporting this work the Russian Foundation for Basic Research [grant number 15-08-08263_a, grant number 16-38-60127 mol_a_dk]. The reported study was also funded by the Grant of the President of Russian Federation for young PhD [project MK-5115.2016.8].

Cubic chemically ordered FeRh and FeCo nanomagnets prepared by mass-selected low-energy cluster-beam deposition: a comparative study

• Veronique Dupuis,
• Anthony Robert,
• Arnaud Hillion,
• Ghassan Khadra,
• Nils Blanc,
• Damien Le Roy,
• Florent Tournus,
• Clement Albin,
• Olivier Boisron and
• Alexandre Tamion

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1850–1860, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.177

• -FeCo nanoparticles were measured with AXD after annealing at 500 °C for 2 h. The measurements were performed on the BM02-D2am French CGR beamline at the ESRF (Grenoble, France) at an X-ray energy fixed at 7.108 keV. The incidence angle was optimized after calibrations so as to have a good compromise

• from the french Synchrotron SOLEIL on the DEIMOS beamline for their respective investment in FeRh and FeCo XMCD measurements. Support is acknowledged from both GDR CNRS 3182 and COST-STSM-MP0903 on Nanoalloys. All cluster samples were prepared in the PLYRA platform while SQUID measurements were