Models of the interaction of metal tips with insulating surfaces

• Thomas Trevethan,
• Matthew Watkins and
• Alexander L. Shluger

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 329–335, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.37

• the electronic density (which may be significantly affected by the basis functions employed), the different treatment of the long-range electrostatics and periodic boundary conditions, and/or slight differences in the effective polarizabilities of the surface or tip ions may all contribute to the

Transmission eigenvalue distributions in highly conductive molecular junctions

• Justin P. Bergfield,
• Joshua D. Barr and
• Charles A. Stafford

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 40–51, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.5

• molecular junction is formed, the energy levels of the molecule are broadened and shifted as a result of the formation of a lead–molecule bond and due to the electrostatic influence of the leads. The bonding between lead α and the molecule is described by the tunneling width matrix Γα and the electrostatics

Characterization of protein adsorption onto FePt nanoparticles using dual-focus fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

• Pauline Maffre,
• Karin Nienhaus,
• Faheem Amin,
• Wolfgang J. Parak and
• G. Ulrich Nienhaus

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 374–383, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.43

• the proteins including approximate dimensions (in nm). Right column: Space-filling models colored to indicate their surface electrostatics at pH 7.4 (blue: negative potential, red: positive potential; range from −5 kBT/e to +5 kBT/e; calculated online at http://kryptonite.nbcr.net/pdb2pqr/ [31