Using natural language processing techniques to inform research on nanotechnology

• Nastassja A. Lewinski and
• Bridget T. McInnes

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1439–1449, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.149

• , which alters the kinetics of the drug in the body. To develop their system, the group used the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK, http://www.nltk.org/), a suite of freely available, open source, Python-based modules developed for processing unstructured text. They evaluated seven supervised machine

Dynamic force microscopy simulator (dForce): A tool for planning and understanding tapping and bimodal AFM experiments

• Horacio V. Guzman,
• Pablo D. Garcia and
• Ricardo Garcia

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 369–379, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.36

• devise the optimal experimental conditions in terms of amplitudes, peak forces, material property sensitivity and spatial resolution, or to explain the experimental data in standard and non-standard dynamic AFM configurations. The code is written in Python/SciPy, which is embedded with open source

Plasmonics-based detection of H₂ and CO: discrimination between reducing gases facilitated by material control

• Gnanaprakash Dharmalingam,
• Nicholas A. Joy,
• Benjamin Grisafe and
• Michael A. Carpenter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 712–721, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.81

• , the observations, or data points, consist of each of the H2 and CO concentrations (five each for H2 and CO). The measured variables consist of 1570 individual wavelengths in the absorption spectrum between 450 and 850 nm. PCA was performed with the Python programming language by using singular value

Septipyridines as conformationally controlled substitutes for inaccessible bis(terpyridine)-derived oligopyridines in two-dimensional self-assembly

• Daniel Caterbow,
• Daniela Künzel,
• Michael G. Mavros,
• Axel Groß,
• Katharina Landfester and
• Ulrich Ziener

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 405–415, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.46

• . For the addition and visualization steps, a homemade python script was used. Force field results were obtained from geometry optimizations of oligopyridine layers carried out with the Compass [32] force field as implemented in the Accelrys Materials Studio program package. Nine possible constitutional