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Instance maps as an organising concept for complex experimental workflows as demonstrated for (nano)material safety research
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 57–77, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.7
- into raw and processed data, as well as the processes of their collection. The pink section nodes represent the raw data sets collected, such as the pH value of soil after the addition of the nanomaterial, organism biomass data, metal concentrations in organism tissues, and any processed data derived
Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles derived from algae and their larvicidal properties to control Aedes aegypti
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1566–1575, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.123
- polycystum, Sargassum natans, Padina gymnospora), red algae (Hypnea musciformis, Centroceras clavulatum, Amphiroa rígida, Gracilaria firma), blue algae (Oscillatoria sancta), and green algae (Ulva lactuta) are reported as biomass for the green synthesis of AgNPs (Table 1). Murugan and collaborators, in their
Green synthesis of biomass-derived carbon quantum dots for photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 755–766, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.63
- . This study introduces an innovative approach to mitigate water pollution through the synthesis of nanomaterials using biomass-derived carbon quantum dots (CQDs) from grape pomace and watermelon peel. Utilizing the hydrothermal method at temperatures between 80 and 160 °C over periods ranging from 1 to
- -conversion luminescence. The results revealed effective photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue under sunlight, highlighting the potential for scalable production of these cost-effective catalytic nanomaterials for synthetic dye degradation. Keywords: biomass; carbon dots; catalysis; methylene blue
- quantum dots (CQDs) through a hydrothermal method using biomass from watermelon peels and grape pomace. This method is chosen for its ease of production, low cost, and scalability. We aim to evaluate the potential of CQDs as catalysts in the photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue (MB) dye in
Simultaneous electrochemical determination of uric acid and hypoxanthine at a TiO2/graphene quantum dot-modified electrode
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 719–732, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.60
- storage derived from their conjugate structure makes them effectively utilizable over the full light spectrum [13][14]. GQDs can be prepared through solvothermal/hydrothermal processes or carbonization from suitable organic molecules (polymers or biomass) [15]. Biomass waste (e.g., agricultural residues
Cholesterol nanoarchaeosomes for alendronate targeted delivery as an anti-endothelial dysfunction agent
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 517–534, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.46
- tebenquichense was grown in basal medium supplemented with yeast extract and glucose in a 25 L custom-made stainless steel bioreactor at 40 °C and harvested after 72 h growth. Total polar archaeolipids (TPA) were extracted from biomass using the Bligh and Dyer method modified for extreme halophiles [74]. Around
In situ magnesiothermic reduction synthesis of a Ge@C composite for high-performance lithium-ion batterie anodes
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 751–761, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.62
- performance of the electrode (432.3 mAh·g−1 at a specific current of 5000 mA·g−1) are attributed to the enhancement in distribution and chemical contact between Ge nanoparticles and the biomass-based carbon matrix. A comparison with other synthesis routes has been conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of
- GeO2 and biomass-derived carbon as precursor. A series of experiments using other methods to combine Ge and biomass carbon was also conducted for comparison. The in situ synthesized electrode exhibits superior electrochemical performance in lithium storage. This is attributed to a better contact
- patterns of pure Ge, biomass-derived activated carbon, and as-synthesized Ge@C composites are shown in Figure 1a. The pattern of Ge pattern exhibits reflections at 2θ = 27.3°, 45.3°, 53.7°, 66.0°, and 72.8°, corresponding to the (111), (220), (311), (400), and (331) crystal planes of cubic Ge (space group
Titania nanoparticles for photocatalytic degradation of ethanol under simulated solar light
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 616–630, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.51
- great interest because ethanol is an inexpensive compound and can be produced by biomass. However, it can be also largely found as pollutant in air and wastewater emerging from industrial activities. There are several pathways to convert ethanol to hydrogen, namely thermochemical, hydrothermal
- electrochemical, and photochemical methods [25]. Ethanol obtained from biomass is a renewable resource, and hydrogen has a high energy content and does not produce greenhouse gases by burning. Hence, it is an ideal combustible for the future [25]. TiO2 has some advantages over commonly used catalytic Pt- or Pt
Nanoarchitectonics to entrap living cells in silica-based systems: encapsulations with yolk–shell and sepiolite nanomaterials
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 522–534, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.43
- than free cells (Table 3). This behaviour may indicate that encapsulation indeed promotes a metabolic shift towards metabolite production rather than biomass formation. However, it is worth noting that after five days of growth, the ethanol concentration was probably sufficiently high to render the
- until reaching a depth of 5 mm. Then the material was air dried for at least 24 h until a viscous, non-sticky elastic film was formed. For sepiolite–chitosan foams, the same preparation procedure was followed, but the sepiolite–chitosan dispersion was not mixed with biomass and freeze-dried instead of
- nanoparticles to reach the desired weight percentage (5.0% to 7.0%). Eventually, the concentrated cell biomass (33% to 40% v/v) was then added and the mixture was placed in a 7 cm diameter Petri dish, where it gelled at room temperature after the addition of 0.2 M KOH to achieve pH 7–8. Table 1 gathers the
Application of nanoarchitectonics in moist-electric generation
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1185–1200, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.99
- materials such as paper [79], cellulose nanofibrils, which were exfoliated mechanically from naturally biomass [80], natural wood [81]. In other works with cellulose doping [55][82][83], voltages of, respectively, 250, 100, and 300 mV were obtained. Li et al. studied in detail the effects of various
Recent advances in green carbon dots (2015–2022): synthesis, metal ion sensing, and biological applications
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1068–1107, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.93
- . Sharma et al. reported an excellent review article on the green synthesis of CDs in 2017 [43]. Recently, Tejwan et al. [44] and Lin et al. [45] also reported review articles about synthesis and applications of CDs obtained from green precursors. Meng et al. reviewed CDs made from biomass and their
- synthesis of carbon dots Green synthesis of CDs mainly utilizes biomass. Biomass synthesis makes use of natural raw materials (organisms, waste material, protein products, or natural polymers), instead of reaction precursors usually used in the traditional methods, and also requires external energy supply
- -wavelength region). Since biomass is abundant in carbon and oxygen, the resulting CDs have carbonyl groups on their surface. Excited electrons resulting from n–π* transitions emit blue fluorescence on radiative recombination. In general, blue fluorescence arise as a result of π–π* transition of the carbon
Progress and innovation of nanostructured sulfur cathodes and metal-free anodes for room-temperature Na–S batteries
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 995–1020, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.75
- and improvement. Hard carbon anodes A somewhat more conventional approach to Na metal-free anodes is the use of hard carbon, also termed non-graphitizable carbon [82][85]. These are disorganized carbon materials with turbostratic nanoscale domains produced by pyrolysis of biomass, also including
The role of deep eutectic solvents and carrageenan in synthesizing biocompatible anisotropic metal nanoparticles
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 924–938, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.69
- cellulose biomass [77]. Although the applications of DESs mentioned above lie at the interface of material and biological science, the following section will only discuss application of DESs in nanomaterial synthesis. As mentioned earlier, the high solubility of metal salts in DESs makes them an ideal
Comprehensive review on ultrasound-responsive theranostic nanomaterials: mechanisms, structures and medical applications
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 808–862, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.64
Physical constraints lead to parallel evolution of micro- and nanostructures of animal adhesive pads: a review
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 725–743, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.57
- by more than one million described species, insects constitute the majority of animals on earth. With their astonishing diversity, they are one of the most remarkable lineages in the 3.5 billion years of life history on this planet [36]. Insects are, in terms of diversity, biomass, and organismic
A review on the biological effects of nanomaterials on silkworm (Bombyx mori)
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 190–202, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.15
- , 212018, PR China 10.3762/bjnano.12.15 Abstract The production of high-quality silkworm silk is of importance in sericulture in addition to the production of biomass, silk proteins, and animal feed. The distinctive properties of nanomaterials have the potential to improve the development of various
A review on the green and sustainable synthesis of silver nanoparticles and one-dimensional silver nanostructures
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 102–136, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.9
- synthesis of AgNPs, as they can accumulate Ag atoms on the cell walls [104]. The bacteriogenic synthesis process can be either extracellular or intracellular. AgNPs are synthesized either by the biomass [267] or the cell culture supernatant [259]. AgNPs synthesized using bacteriogenic pathogens are commonly
- amides corresponding to cellular proteins and enzymes, are responsible for the synthesis and stabilization of AgNPs (Table 2). These components are present in both the biomass and the cell culture supernatant. It was previously demonstrated that the synthesis rate can be faster for some bacterial strains
- ]. For most applications, the single-cell type of the organism known as microalgae is used to synthesize AgNPs [191]. This enables formation of homogeneous microalgal suspensions which can be used directly for the synthesis process. In the synthesis process, the microalgal biomass in the aqueous phase
Bio-imaging with the helium-ion microscope: A review
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1–23, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.1
- they investigated E.coli which were exposed to TiO2 nanoparticles with the sector-field spectrometer [36]. The authors report on secondary ion maps of CN− from the biomass as well as of Ti+ from the nanoparticles. So far, the mass resolution achieved does not allow for using HIM-SIMS to characterise
Self-standing heterostructured NiCx-NiFe-NC/biochar as a highly efficient cathode for lithium–oxygen batteries
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1809–1821, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.163
- porous cubic nanostructure exhibiting excellent catalytic properties [36][37]. Biomass materials can be used to prepare N-doped carbons since their proteins contain nitrogen atoms. This method is an economically viable way to produce N-doped carbons at a large scale [38][39]. Our group has synthesized a
- series of 3D self-standing electrodes [40][41][42][43] by depositing MOFs on biomass followed by either a carbonization or a phosphating step. These electrodes can be directly used as cathodes in Li–O2 batteries. In this work, the NiFe-PBA/pomelo peel (PP) precursors were prepared in a similar way as in
Silver-decorated gel-shell nanobeads: physicochemical characterization and evaluation of antibacterial properties
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 620–630, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.49
- silver nanoparticles. Radzig and co-workers observed that Ag nanoparticles of 8.3 ± 1.9 nm in size hamper the biofilm formation of E. coli and P. aeruginosa. The reduction of bacterial biomass in the biofilm was visible when the concentration was higher than 5 μg/mL for E. coli and 10 μg/mL for P
Soybean-derived blue photoluminescent carbon dots
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 606–619, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.48
- Engineering and Environmental Engineering, Liaoning Shihua University, Fushun, Liaoning, 113001, China 10.3762/bjnano.11.48 Abstract Biomass-derived carbon dots (CDs) are biocompatible and have potential for a variety of applications, including bioimaging and biosensing. In this work, we use ground soybean
- to introduce N-surface-functional groups to carbon nanoparticles made from biomass and biowaste and to produce stable photoluminescent CDs with excellent water-wettability. Keywords: biomass; carbon dots; hydrothermal process; laser ablation; N-doping; photoluminescence; Introduction Carbon-based
- luminescence properties. Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC), which can be considered as a “green technology”, has been used to produce photoluminescent CDs from biomass, including glucose, sucrose, citric acid [19], chitosan [20], orange juice [21], grass [22] and soy milk [10]. For example, Sahu et al. [21
Adsorptive removal of bulky dye molecules from water with mesoporous polyaniline-derived carbon
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 597–605, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.47
- regarded to be very effective and attractive because of its operation under mild conditions and no need of oxidant, active catalyst, and irradiation [8][9]. Therefore, adsorption with carbon nanotubes, activated carbon (AC), biomass, and metallic–organic frameworks (MOFs) has been actively studied for the
Synthesis of highly active ETS-10-based titanosilicate for heterogeneously catalyzed transesterification of triglycerides
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2039–2061, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.200
- removal [13]. Amongst the prospective solid catalysts designed for transesterification reactions, such as calcium [14] and other metal oxides [15], metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) [10], silica-supported catalysts [16], biochar [17] and other biomass-derived catalysts [18], zeolites and molecular sieves
Upcycling of polyurethane waste by mechanochemistry: synthesis of N-doped porous carbon materials for supercapacitor applications
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1618–1627, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.157
- from coconut shells and other biomass waste [19][20][21]. However, the industrial use of plastics for this purpose has not been established yet. The main properties of porous carbon materials [22][23] such as high specific surface area and high electrical conductivity allow for a variety of
Glucose-derived carbon materials with tailored properties as electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1089–1102, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.109
- -doped biomass-derived carbon materials were prepared by hydrothermal carbonization of glucose, and their textural and chemical properties were subsequently tailored to achieve materials with enhanced electrochemical performance towards the oxygen reduction reaction. Carbonization and physical activation
- nitrides [30], activated carbons [31] or mesoporous carbons [32][33]. Some of these materials are obtained from chemical compounds, fossil fuels or by complex and expensive synthesis procedures. In order to keep fuel cells as ecologically friendly as possible, the use of biomass as a carbon source appears
- to be an attractive alternative. In this context, hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) has appeared in recent years as an interesting strategy to obtain biomass-derived carbons due to its low cost and mild synthesis conditions, making the process environmentally friendly [34]. However, the main drawback
One-step nonhydrolytic sol–gel synthesis of mesoporous TiO2 phosphonate hybrid materials
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 356–362, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.35
- of heterogeneous catalysis or selective adsorption. Their high hydrolytic stability over a wide range of pH [15] and the possibility to functionalize them with a variety of functional groups makes them particularly promising for applications in aqueous phase catalysis (e.g., for biomass conversion
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