Tailoring of physical properties of RF-sputtered ZnTe films: role of substrate temperature

• Kafi Devi,
• Usha Rani,
• Arun Kumar,
• Divya Gupta and
• Sanjeev Aggarwal

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 333–348, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.25

• application of the fabricated ZnTe films in solar cells. Refractive index The refractive index is one of the important optical parameters as it is connected to the electronic polarizability, local fields in the semiconducting material, and transmission. The refractive index is related to the transmission of

Preferential enrichment and extraction of laser-synthesized nanoparticles in organic phases

• Theo Fromme,
• Maximilian L. Spiekermann,
• Florian Lehmann,
• Stephan Barcikowski,
• Thomas Seidensticker and
• Sven Reichenberger

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2025, 16, 254–263, doi:10.3762/bjnano.16.20

• temperature. (a) Scheme of the six used metals ordered by the respective standard electrochemical reduction potential of the bulk material and the respective nanoparticle polarizability. The position of the nanoparticles is indicated by a gray coloring, while pure solvent is colored in blue. (b) Mass fraction

AI-assisted models to predict chemotherapy drugs modified with C₆₀ fullerene derivatives

• Jonathan-Siu-Loong Robles-Hernández,
• Dora Iliana Medina,
• Katerin Aguirre-Hurtado,
• Marlene Bosquez,
• Roberto Salcedo and
• Alan Miralrio

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1170–1188, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.95

• phase of a two-phase octanol–water mixture [39]. Similarly, LogS, related to the water solubility of a substance, was considered. Besides, PSA, as molecular surface associated with charge accumulation due to heteroatoms and polar groups, as well as polarizability (α) associated with the tendency of a

• between 0 and 6. In addition, the polar surface area had variations between 12.47 and 221.29 Å2. The cases of thiotepa and aldoxorubicin were not considered because they are part of the validation set. Rotatable bonds were obtained ranging from 0 to 15. The polarizability varied from 9.46 to 87.46 Å3

• (Supporting Information File 1) shows the correlation matrix between the ten most relevant quantum descriptors used to obtain the mathematical models. There are significant correlations between the molecular weight and the polarizability of about 0.93 and between polarizability and the number of rings of

Quantum-to-classical modeling of monolayer Ge₂Se₂ and its application in photovoltaic devices

• Anup Shrivastava,
• Shivani Saini,
• Dolly Kumari,
• Sanjai Singh and
• Jost Adam

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1153–1169, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.94

• (evaluated at the energy En(k)). The response coefficients, that is, the relative dielectric permittivity (εr), the polarizability (α), and the optical conductivity (σ), are related to the susceptibility as: with i,j ∈ {1,2,3}. Solving and separating Equation 9 for the imaginary part of dielectric function

Electron-induced ligand loss from iron tetracarbonyl methyl acrylate

• Hlib Lyshchuk,
• Atul Chaudhary,
• Thomas F. M. Luxford,
• Miloš Ranković,
• Jaroslav Kočišek,
• Juraj Fedor,
• Lisa McElwee-White and
• Pamir Nag

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 797–807, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.66

• the low-energy DEA is the long-range electron–molecule interaction [11]. In nonpolar Fe(CO)5, this is mediated by a high polarizability. The calculated isotropic polarizability of Fe(CO)4MA (144 a.u.) is lower than that of Fe(CO)5 (189 a.u.); however, it is a polar molecule with a calculated total

On the additive artificial intelligence-based discovery of nanoparticle neurodegenerative disease drug delivery systems

• Shan He,
• Julen Segura Abarrategi,
• Harbil Bediaga,
• Sonia Arrasate and
• Humberto González-Díaz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 535–555, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.47

• , Dn9, Dn10, Dn11, Dn12, Dn13, Dn14, Dn15, Dn16, Dn17, Dn18, Dn19, Dn20]. Specifically, they are Dn1 = NMUn (number of monomer units), Dn2 = Lnp (NP length), Dn3 = Vnu (NP volume), Dn4 = Enu (NP electronegativity), Dn5 = Pnu (NP polarizability), Dn6 = Uccoat (unsaturation count), Dn7 = Uicoat

Fragmentation of metal(II) bis(acetylacetonate) complexes induced by slow electrons

• Janina Kopyra and
• Hassan Abdoul-Carime

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 980–987, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.81

• TNI decomposition [23]. ML2 compounds usually possess high dipole moment, quadrupole moment, and/or polarizability [15][16][17][18][19], which allow this mechanism to occur. All these processes are involved in the yield functions reported below in Figures 1–6. At first glance, the formation of the

Plasmonic nanotechnology for photothermal applications – an evaluation

• A. R. Indhu,
• L. Keerthana and
• Gnanaprakash Dharmalingam

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 380–419, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.33

• charges are arranged in the direction of electric field and negative charges opposite to the field, causing a polarisation. The wavelength-dependent electric field and dipole moment determine the dielectric property of the material and also the plasmon absorption (by affecting the polarizability, as was

• polarizability (causing interband transitions), and χD is the corresponding susceptibility of the conduction electrons (modelled through the Drude assumption of a free electron “sea”). Hence, PT applications targeting plasmonic materials must account for the contributions to the dielectric function of the terms

• radiation, is derived starting from Laplace’s equation with an electric potential (ϕ), Calculation of the resulting scalar potentials inside and outside the particle leads to the expression for the polarizability (α) of the particle, εm is the dielectric constant of the surrounding medium. The extinction

Recent advances in green carbon dots (2015–2022): synthesis, metal ion sensing, and biological applications

• Aisha Kanwal,
• Naheed Bibi,
• Sajjad Hyder,
• Arif Muhammad,
• Hao Ren,
• Jiangtao Liu and
• Zhongli Lei

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1068–1107, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.93

• contrast to nitrogen, phosphorus atoms are larger than carbon atoms. As a result, it has the potential to act as an n-type donor and create substitutional defects in the carbon cluster, changing the electronic and optical characteristics of CDs with great impact on polarizability, quantum yield, and

Revealing local structural properties of an atomically thin MoSe₂ surface using optical microscopy

• Lin Pan,
• Peng Miao,
• Anke Horneber,
• Alfred J. Meixner,
• Pierre-Michel Adam and
• Dai Zhang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 572–581, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.49

• single-molecule detection level [18][19]. The Raman enhancement originates from an electromagnetic mechanism, provided by the excitation of surface plasmons, and a chemical mechanism which is related to the modification of Raman polarizability of molecules [20]. It has been reported that 2D materials

• the Raman polarizability of the molecule; thus, it is essential to investigate the dependency of chemical enhancement on the local structure of 2D-TMDC materials. In this article, the structure-related optical properties of a triangular MoSe2 flake covered with a 5 nm film of CuPc molecules are

Identifying diverse metal oxide nanomaterials with lethal effects on embryonic zebrafish using machine learning

• Richard Liam Marchese Robinson,
• Haralambos Sarimveis,
• Philip Doganis,
• Xiaodong Jia,
• Marianna Kotzabasaki,
• Christiana Gousiadou,
• Stacey Lynn Harper and
• Terry Wilkins

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1297–1325, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.97

First-principles study of the structural, optoelectronic and thermophysical properties of the π-SnSe for thermoelectric applications

• Muhammad Atif Sattar,
• Najwa Al Bouzieh,
• Maamar Benkraouda and
• Noureddine Amrane

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 1101–1114, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.82

• , the computation of the optical properties is decreased towards the assessment of the response function, which is called dielectric tensor or polarizability. For practical optoelectronics applications, it is essential to investigate the optical response of the π-SnSe alloy. For this purpose, we have

Structural and optical characteristics determined by the sputtering deposition conditions of oxide thin films

• Petronela Prepelita,
• Florin Garoi and
• Valentin Craciun

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 354–365, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.29

• of the oxide films. This allowed for the assessment of the permittivity and polarizability of the material, as well as the density of states in the band interval. Based on calculus, the value of the real dielectric constant (εr) can be obtained by: and the relationship to compute the imaginary

The influence of an interfacial hBN layer on the fluorescence of an organic molecule

• Christine Brülke,
• Oliver Bauer and
• Moritz M. Sokolowski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1663–1684, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.149

• and the substrate occurs due to the chemisorptive bonding, which leads to a change in the polarizability of the molecule and thus to an enhancement of the Raman signal. It is also possible that electronic excitations of the adsorbed molecule allow for a resonance Raman effect, which causes an

• by the polar character of the B–N bonds, which induced a dipole in the adsorbed molecule. The resulting interfacial dipole–dipole interactions are thought to have a similar effect on the polarizability of the adsorbed molecule as a CT. Regarding the Raman enhancement effect of a noble metal surface

Electrokinetic characterization of synthetic protein nanoparticles

• Daniel F. Quevedo,
• Cody J. Lentz,
• Adriana Coll de Peña,
• Yazmin Hernandez,
• Nahal Habibi,
• Rikako Miki,
• Joerg Lahann and
• Blanca H. Lapizco-Encinas

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1556–1567, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.138

• a device for further data collection and analysis [19]. Both AC and DC electric potentials can be used to exploit differences in specific biological particle properties, such as electrical charge, size, shape, and polarizability [20][21]. An important fraction of miniaturized EK devices employ a

• migrating (i.e., become trapped) at a certain voltage at the constrictions between the insulating posts. The voltage at which a particle is trapped is directly related to the properties of the particle (i.e., electrical charge, size, shape, and polarizability). Therefore, every particle will be trapped at a

• migration due to the polarizability of particles when exposed to a non-homogenous electric field. The DEP velocity is characterized by the following equation: where µDEP is the DEP mobility. Therefore, summarizing the four phenomena discussed above, the total particle velocity within our system (Figure 2b

Analysis of catalyst surface wetting: the early stage of epitaxial germanium nanowire growth

• Owen C. Ernst,
• Felix Lange,
• David Uebel,
• Thomas Teubner and
• Torsten Boeck

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1371–1380, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.121

• of solid–fluid and AFF of fluid-fluid interactions: The Hamaker constants are a gauge for the interaction between particles of certain materials and the electric fields they generate [28]. This electrical responsiveness (or susceptibility) is closely related to the permittivity/polarizability, α, of

• difference between the surface energy of the pristine substrate, γS, and the sum of the surface energy values of the wetted substrate (γSF + γF): In an ideal van der Waals system, it can be shown that the surface energy values are also associated with polarizability [34]. For real systems, however, it is

• hysteresis effects, making the interpretation of the results even more complicated [39]. ii. The vW model: As mentioned before, the surface energy values are also connected with the polarizability of the system (i.e., with the Hamaker constants). In order to approximate the interfacial energy, it can be

Role of redox-active axial ligands of metal porphyrins adsorbed at solid–liquid interfaces in a liquid-STM setup

• Thomas Habets,
• Sylvia Speller and
• Johannes A. A. W. Elemans

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1264–1271, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.110

• rates. First, only the overall potential difference between the tip and the sample is known. The potential drops from the surfaces to the solution are governed by the material of the surface and structural properties of the interface, the type and polarizability of the solvent, the solutes (and their

Measurement of electrostatic tip–sample interactions by time-domain Kelvin probe force microscopy

• Christian Ritz,
• Tino Wagner and
• Andreas Stemmer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 911–921, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.76

• . Similarly, other sources of asymmetry may be included here, although the detectability of the system needs to be confirmed. For instance, the polarizability of a sample could be added through an additional state γ and by modifying Equation 10, e.g., according to Equation 8 in [28]. For the sake of

The role of Ag⁺, Ca²⁺, Pb²⁺ and Al³⁺ adions in the SERS turn-on effect of anionic analytes

• Stefania D. Iancu,
• Andrei Stefancu,
• Vlad Moisoiu,
• Loredana F. Leopold and
• Nicolae Leopold

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2338–2345, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.224

• surface of the cit-AgNPs such as surface defects and kinks [36][37] and will increase the number of available positively charged adsorption sites for anionic analytes. As highlighted by Attard, the polarizability of the adion will influence greatly its surface activity [35]. This explains why cations with

• a high polarizability such as Ca2+, Pb2+ or Al3+ promote the specific adsorption of anionic analytes, whereas cations with a low polarizability such as Na+ have a negligible effect on the surface adsorption. In order to provide further evidence in support of this model, we showed that only the

Synthesis of highly active ETS-10-based titanosilicate for heterogeneously catalyzed transesterification of triglycerides

• Muhammad A. Zaheer,
• David Poppitz,
• Khavar Feyzullayeva,
• Marianne Wenzel,
• Jörg Matysik,
• Radomir Ljupkovic,
• Aleksandra Zarubica,
• Alexander A. Karavaev,
• Andreas Pöppl,
• Roger Gläser and
• Muslim Dvoyashkin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2039–2061, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.200

• micropores. In the case of treatment of ETS-10 titanosilicates with H2O2 at elevated temperatures, if accompanied by microexplosions [39], the appearance of such domains is possible. To address this, a number of NMR experiments with adsorbed Xe possessing a polarizability that is high enough to distinguish

Biocatalytic oligomerization-induced self-assembly of crystalline cellulose oligomers into nanoribbon networks assisted by organic solvents

• Yuuki Hata,
• Yuka Fukaya,
• Toshiki Sawada,
• Masahito Nishiura and
• Takeshi Serizawa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1778–1788, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.173

• ability (acidity) α, the hydrogen bond acceptor ability (basicity) β, and the dipolarity/polarizability π*, β was found to be correlated. The organic solvents with relatively high β-values were found to induce the nanoribbon network formation (Table 2). This finding suggests that the precipitation of the

On the transformation of “zincone”-like into porous ZnO thin films from sub-saturated plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition

• Alberto Perrotta,
• Julian Pilz,
• Stefan Pachmajer,
• Antonella Milella and
• Anna Maria Coclite

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 746–759, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.74

• the Lorentz–Lorenz relationship and calculated as: where Vads is the volume of the liquid adsorptive in pores, B0 and Bs are the volume polarizability of the film before and during adsorption, Bt is the volume polarizability of the adsorbate multilayer that develops on top of the layer, d0 and dt are

• the thickness of the layer and the adsorbate multilayer, respectively, Vmol is the molecular volume of the adsorptive, and αads is the polarizability of the adsorptive molecule. If swelling occurs, dt is ignored in the equation and only the layer thickness is taken into account, as reported in [49

Quantification and coupling of the electromagnetic and chemical contributions in surface-enhanced Raman scattering

• Yarong Su,
• Yuanzhen Shi,
• Ping Wang,
• Jinglei Du,
• Markus B. Raschke and
• Lin Pang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 549–556, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.56

• modulate the substrate polarizability, and thus enhance the Raman scattering [20][21][22]. This possible coupling effect was investigated theoretically, but not yet explored experimentally. Therefore, establishing a routine experimental procedure to separate and quantify CE and EM effects, as well as

• can be obtained by normalization to a mode with zero deformation potential ∂ωH/∂Qn. As for the ω1 = 1000 cm−1 mode, it was proposed that there is almost no change of the frontier energy levels as the atoms vibrate, and very little interfacial contribution to the change in polarizability [15]. Thus

• frequency-dependent but not particularly sensitive to the strength of the local optical field within the range of frequencies and field strengths studied. The CE corresponds to the static chemical enhancement (CHEM), which is induced by non-resonant changes in the molecular polarizability upon adsorption on

Nanocomposite–parylene C thin films with high dielectric constant and low losses for future organic electronic devices

• Marwa Mokni,
• Gianluigi Maggioni,
• Abdelkader Kahouli,
• Sara M. Carturan,
• Walter Raniero and
• Alain Sylvestre

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 428–441, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.42

• to be found in the presence of AgOx nanoparticles in the parylene matrix. The incorporation of conductive particles into a dielectric matrix can lead to a consequent increase in the dielectric constant due to the high polarizability of these conductive particles [69]. A moderate amount of Ag

Electrostatic force microscopy for the accurate characterization of interphases in nanocomposites

• Diana El Khoury,
• Richard Arinero,
• Jean-Charles Laurentie,
• Mikhaël Bechelany,
• Michel Ramonda and
• Jérôme Castellon

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2999–3012, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.279

• , and SiO2 is a highly hydrophilic material, it can be hypothesized that a thin water layer was adsorbed on the surface. The high dielectric polarizability and permittivity of water films could explain the higher effective permittivity of superficial SiO2. Along the same lines, the normal value of the