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Can neutral clusters: a two-step G0W0 and DFT benchmark

  • Sunila Bakhsh,
  • Sameen Aslam,
  • Muhammad Khalid,
  • Muhammad Sohail,
  • Sundas Zafar,
  • Sumayya Abdul Wadood,
  • Kareem Morsy and
  • Muhammad Aamir Iqbal

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1010–1016, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.82

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  • use of hybrid functionals generally improves accuracy for many systems, but it does not guarantee perfect results for all types of bonding or electron correlation effects. Overall, the accuracy of theoretically obtained structures is supported by the experimental data, which is lacking in this case
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Published 08 Aug 2024

Recent progress on field-effect transistor-based biosensors: device perspective

  • Billel Smaani,
  • Fares Nafa,
  • Mohamed Salah Benlatrech,
  • Ismahan Mahdi,
  • Hamza Akroum,
  • Mohamed walid Azizi,
  • Khaled Harrar and
  • Sayan Kanungo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 977–994, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.80

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  • hybrid partially gated design is reported as an exceptional device allowing digital gates with biosensing integration. Also, a hardware description language (Verilog-A) has been used for the modeling of each device structure to be incorporated into various system designs via electronic design automation
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Published 06 Aug 2024

Electrospun nanofibers: building blocks for the repair of bone tissue

  • Tuğrul Mert Serim,
  • Gülin Amasya,
  • Tuğba Eren-Böncü,
  • Ceyda Tuba Şengel-Türk and
  • Ayşe Nurten Özdemir

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 941–953, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.77

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  • , ethanol, formic acid, and tetrahydrofuran. Depending on the polymer type or the hybrid polymer composition, these organic solvents can be used alone or applied as mixtures in order to obtain suitable solution properties [67]. Surface tension The surface tension of the polymer liquid is important for the
  • when preparing polymeric nanofiber formulations to obtain controlled and sustained drug release profiles. The polymers used in the preparation of polymeric nanofibers are generally categorized into four classes, namely, natural polymers, synthetic polymers, blends of these two classes (hybrid), and
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Published 25 Jul 2024

Facile synthesis of Fe-based metal–organic frameworks from Fe2O3 nanoparticles and their application for CO2/N2 separation

  • Van Nhieu Le,
  • Hoai Duc Tran,
  • Minh Tien Nguyen,
  • Hai Bang Truong,
  • Toan Minh Pham and
  • Jinsoo Kim

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 897–908, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.74

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  • -organic frameworks (MOFs) are well-ordered porous hybrid structures assembled from the fundamental components of metal ion clusters and organic linkers. MOFs are well known as multipurpose materials that serve a broad range of applications because of their unique construction variants, enormous surface
  • strength of the Lewis acid properties. Lower temperatures (approx. 150 °C) favor Fe(III), while higher temperatures up to 250 °C promote Fe(II) [9][10]. The MIL-100(Fe) structure is built from oxo-trimers of iron octahedra as SBUs together with bridges of benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate, yielding a hybrid
  • supertetrahedral structure. Following that, the hybrid structures self-assemble in a certain sequence to form a topology resembling the MTN-type of zeolite seen in Zeolite Socony Mobil Thirty-Nine (ZSM-39) [11]. The MIL-100(Fe) structure has a cubic series containing two types of large chambers with average
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Published 19 Jul 2024

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

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  • set to around 100 (M/ΔM). DFT calculations DFT-based structure optimization calculations have been performed using Gaussian 16 software [30]. All calculations were conducted using the commonly employed hybrid functional B3LYP [31] with a 6-31++G(d,p) [32][33] basis set and included the GD3 empirical
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Published 03 Jul 2024

Electrospun polysuccinimide scaffolds containing different salts as potential wound dressing material

  • Veronika Pálos,
  • Krisztina S. Nagy,
  • Rita Pázmány,
  • Krisztina Juriga-Tóth,
  • Bálint Budavári,
  • Judit Domokos,
  • Dóra Szabó,
  • Ákos Zsembery and
  • Angela Jedlovszky-Hajdu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 781–796, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.65

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  • (chitosan–silicone hybrid) fibers were made with zinc additives. They found that the scaffold had antibacterial activity against S. aureus, B. subtillis, E. coli, and P. aeruginosa bacterial strains [71]. Colinas et al. examined Zn-based coordination polymers in broth dilution and agar diffusion tests, and
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Published 02 Jul 2024

Electron-induced deposition using Fe(CO)4MA and Fe(CO)5 – effect of MA ligand and process conditions

  • Hannah Boeckers,
  • Atul Chaudhary,
  • Petra Martinović,
  • Amy V. Walker,
  • Lisa McElwee-White and
  • Petra Swiderek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 500–516, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.45

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Published 08 May 2024

Aero-ZnS prepared by physical vapor transport on three-dimensional networks of sacrificial ZnO microtetrapods

  • Veaceslav Ursaki,
  • Tudor Braniste,
  • Victor Zalamai,
  • Emil Rusu,
  • Vladimir Ciobanu,
  • Vadim Morari,
  • Daniel Podgornii,
  • Pier Carlo Ricci,
  • Rainer Adelung and
  • Ion Tiginyanu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 490–499, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.44

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  • ], and hybrid composite [26][27] materials. Aeromaterials have been prepared on the basis of sacrificial nano/microstructured templates. Nanofibrillated cellulose has been used as a sacrificial template for the preparation of inorganic nanotube networks, such as titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, and aluminum
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Published 02 May 2024

Unveiling the nature of atomic defects in graphene on a metal surface

  • Karl Rothe,
  • Nicolas Néel and
  • Jörg Kröger

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 416–425, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.37

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  • due to an increased graphene–metal interaction compared with Pt(111), although both graphene–metal hybrid structures belong to the weak-hybridization regime [43]. Another rationale is the deviation of the observed defects 1 and 2 from a monatomic vacancy site, which will further be explored in the
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Published 15 Apr 2024

Investigating structural and electronic properties of neutral zinc clusters: a G0W0 and G0W0Г0(1) benchmark

  • Sunila Bakhsh,
  • Muhammad Khalid,
  • Sameen Aslam,
  • Muhammad Sohail,
  • Muhammad Aamir Iqbal,
  • Mujtaba Ikram and
  • Kareem Morsy

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 310–316, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.28

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  • optimization, within which the distinct structures were separated using the GGA (PBE) functional, and (ii) high-precision optimization by ABACUS using the “accurate” setting. PBE instead of the hybrid functional was used because of its low cost; also, it brings a non-empirical functional that can easily and
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Published 15 Mar 2024

Modification of graphene oxide and its effect on properties of natural rubber/graphene oxide nanocomposites

  • Nghiem Thi Thuong,
  • Le Dinh Quang,
  • Vu Quoc Cuong,
  • Cao Hong Ha,
  • Nguyen Ba Lam and
  • Seiichi Kawahara

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 168–179, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.16

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  • , GO has quite poor compatibility with NR. It is necessary to modify GO to have a better interaction with the NR matrix. Various researchers have attempted to functionalize GO with silane coupling agents to prepare hybrid GO/silica fillers [25][26]. The concept is based on the hydrolysis and
  • condensation reaction of VTES to form nanosilica on GO membranes, using both acidic and basic conditions to catalyze these reactions. The hybrid GO/silica fillers could enhance the interaction, dispersion, and properties of various composites. For example, GO/3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane and GO/3
  • -glycidyloxypropyltrimethoxysilane used in epoxy nanocomposites [27] or reduced GO/vinyltrimethoxy silane used in low-density polyethylene nanocomposites [28]. Additionally, Charoenchai et al. [29] prepared a hybrid silica/graphene oxide, GO/VTES, catalyzed under basic conditions. The hybrid filler was introduced into the NR matrix
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Published 05 Feb 2024

CdSe/ZnS quantum dots as a booster in the active layer of distributed ternary organic photovoltaics

  • Gabriela Lewińska,
  • Piotr Jeleń,
  • Zofia Kucia,
  • Maciej Sitarz,
  • Łukasz Walczak,
  • Bartłomiej Szafraniak,
  • Jerzy Sanetra and
  • Konstanty W. Marszalek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 144–156, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.14

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  • 23.8% enhancement compared with the undoped device [67]. CQD/polymer hybrid solar cells reached 12% efficiency [68]. The devices were used in a CQD/small molecule acceptor–bridge–polymer hybrid composition. For black phosphorous quantum dots (BPQDs) devices, the PCE was enhanced from 11.8 to 13.1% for
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Published 02 Feb 2024

Enhanced feedback performance in off-resonance AFM modes through pulse train sampling

  • Mustafa Kangül,
  • Navid Asmari,
  • Santiago H. Andany,
  • Marcos Penedo and
  • Georg E. Fantner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 134–143, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.13

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  • material properties [17][18][19][20][21][22]. AFM companies included variations of the pulse force mode in their microscopes, such as PeakForce™ Tapping (Bruker), Digital Pulsed Force Mode™ (WITec), HybriD mode (NT-DMT), and WaveMode (Nanosurf). While these implementations have subtle differences, we refer
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Published 01 Feb 2024

In situ optical sub-wavelength thickness control of porous anodic aluminum oxide

  • Aleksandrs Dutovs,
  • Raimonds Popļausks,
  • Oskars Putāns,
  • Vladislavs Perkanuks,
  • Aušrinė Jurkevičiūtė,
  • Tomas Tamulevičius,
  • Uldis Malinovskis,
  • Iryna Olyshevets,
  • Donats Erts and
  • Juris Prikulis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 126–133, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.12

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  • established in other works, for example [13]. Funding The work was performed within the Latvian Council of Science fundamental and applied research project LZP-2020/1-0200 “Nanostructured multilayer hybrid coatings for interferometric and optoelectronic sensors” and European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and
  • Innovation Program under TRANSLATE project (Grant agreement: 964251). A. J. acknowledges support from European Regional Development Fund for postdoctoral project ”Patterned hybrid multilayer films for optical sensors” (no. 1.1.1.2/VIAA/4/20/615). (a) Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrograph showing top
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Published 31 Jan 2024

Berberine-loaded polylactic acid nanofiber scaffold as a drug delivery system: The relationship between chemical characteristics, drug-release behavior, and antibacterial efficiency

  • Le Thi Le,
  • Hue Thi Nguyen,
  • Liem Thanh Nguyen,
  • Huy Quang Tran and
  • Thuy Thi Thu Nguyen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 71–82, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.7

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  • bioavailability of poorly soluble drugs [15]. Limoee et al. reported that the release rate of Pramipexole from hybrid cross-linked nanofibers was successfully controlled between 8 and 10 h, which is approximately the same time that the drug formulation travels from the mouth to the small intestine. It is
  • worthwhile mentioning that the hybrid cross-linked nanofibers in this work were made of a mixture of a hydrophilic polymeric matrix (polyvinyl alcohol and carboxymethyl cellulose) and a hydrophobic polymer (polycaprolactone) [16]. Interestingly, the nature of the drug and the drug–polymer compatibility
  • release of BBR, combining a fast-release step of BBR from hydrophilic polypyrrolidone nanofibers (47.9 wt % in the first hour) and a sustained-release step of BBR from the insoluble cellulose acetate microparticles (98.6 wt % for 60 h). In comparison with the aforementioned hybrid nanofibers, the release
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Published 12 Jan 2024

Measurements of dichroic bow-tie antenna arrays with integrated cold-electron bolometers using YBCO oscillators

  • Leonid S. Revin,
  • Dmitry A. Pimanov,
  • Alexander V. Chiginev,
  • Anton V. Blagodatkin,
  • Viktor O. Zbrozhek,
  • Andrey V. Samartsev,
  • Anastasia N. Orlova,
  • Dmitry V. Masterov,
  • Alexey E. Parafin,
  • Victoria Yu. Safonova,
  • Anna V. Gordeeva,
  • Andrey L. Pankratov,
  • Leonid S. Kuzmin,
  • Anatolie S. Sidorenko,
  • Silvia Masi and
  • Paolo de Bernardis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 26–36, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.3

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  • stage is the deposition of about 70 nm of Al at an angle of −45° to form a SIN tunnel junction. Thus, as a normal layer we use the hybrid superconducting/ferromagnetic structure, which allows for decreasing the absorber volume and also for suppressing the Andreev heating current [22] to improve detector
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Published 04 Jan 2024

A combined gas-phase dissociative ionization, dissociative electron attachment and deposition study on the potential FEBID precursor [Au(CH3)2Cl]2

  • Elif Bilgilisoy,
  • Ali Kamali,
  • Thomas Xaver Gentner,
  • Gerd Ballmann,
  • Sjoerd Harder,
  • Hans-Peter Steinrück,
  • Hubertus Marbach and
  • Oddur Ingólfsson

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 1178–1199, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.98

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Published 06 Dec 2023

A bifunctional superconducting cell as flux qubit and neuron

  • Dmitrii S. Pashin,
  • Pavel V. Pikunov,
  • Marina V. Bastrakova,
  • Andrey E. Schegolev,
  • Nikolay V. Klenov and
  • Igor I. Soloviev

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 1116–1126, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.92

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  • feature allows for the use of the proposed scheme in superconducting neural networks, such as perceptrons, integrated into hybrid quantum-neuromorphic computers. Moreover, the temperature affects the steepness of the sigmoid function. Even the manifestation of hysteresis in flux-to-flux transformations
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Published 21 Nov 2023

Dual-heterodyne Kelvin probe force microscopy

  • Benjamin Grévin,
  • Fatima Husainy,
  • Dmitry Aldakov and
  • Cyril Aumaître

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 1068–1084, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.88

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Spatial mapping of photovoltage and light-induced displacement of on-chip coupled piezo/photodiodes by Kelvin probe force microscopy under modulated illumination

  • Zeinab Eftekhari,
  • Nasim Rezaei,
  • Hidde Stokkel,
  • Jian-Yao Zheng,
  • Andrea Cerreta,
  • Ilka Hermes,
  • Minh Nguyen,
  • Guus Rijnders and
  • Rebecca Saive

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 1059–1067, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.87

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  • of the light-driven piezo/photodiode device over time. Employing modulated illumination enabled us to quantify precisely the device displacement due to improved signal-to-noise ratio, which could not be achieved by continuous illumination. The configuration of the hybrid piezo/photodiode device has
  • center is around 3 to 4.6 nm/V, showing notable performance of the piezo-photodiode device under low photovoltage. The strength of our approach lies in its capability to decouple the contributions of different aspects of our hybrid system effectively, as the optoelectronic and mechanical properties are
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Published 06 Nov 2023

Nanoarchitectonics of photothermal materials to enhance the sensitivity of lateral flow assays

  • Elangovan Sarathkumar,
  • Rajasekharan S. Anjana and
  • Ramapurath S. Jayasree

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 988–1003, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.82

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  • ]. NIR light irradiation for 10 min can yield temperatures up to 61 °C in mesoporous PDA with a photoconversion efficiency of 26.7%. Despite the advantages, many of the polymer nanoparticles show strong photoluminescence and do not withstand long-term light irradiation. To overcome this challenge, hybrid
  • has advantages such as high NIR absorption, large surface area, and biocompatibility. Also, it is known to enhance the signal intensity in SERS, albeit less efficiently than gold nanoparticles [82][83]. However, graphene can be used for photothermal applications. Using a hybrid formulation of gold and
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Published 04 Oct 2023

A graphene quantum dots–glassy carbon electrode-based electrochemical sensor for monitoring malathion

  • Sanju Tanwar,
  • Aditi Sharma and
  • Dhirendra Mathur

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 701–710, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.56

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  • dots and 3D bismuth oxyiodine hybrid hollow microspheres for the detection of chlopyrifos [26]. In 2020, Jiménez-López et al. worked on a fluorescent probe containing graphene quantum dots and silver nanoparticles for glyphosate detection [27]. In 2021, Xu Dan et al. developed a histidine
  • -functionalized nickel/silver/graphene quantum dot/graphene hybrid for the colorimetric detection of malathion [28]. This paper describes the development of an electrochemical sensor based on a graphene quantum dot-modified glassy carbon electrode (GQDs/GCE) for the determination and quantification of the
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Published 09 Jun 2023

Metal-organic framework-based nanomaterials as opto-electrochemical sensors for the detection of antibiotics and hormones: A review

  • Akeem Adeyemi Oladipo,
  • Saba Derakhshan Oskouei and
  • Mustafa Gazi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 631–673, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.52

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  • it has a high anti-interference ability. It is important to note that a number of MOF-based materials have been used as opto-electrochemical sensors for the dual detection of hormones and antibiotics using hybrid optical and electrochemical methods. As two non-interfering and mutually independent
  • that MOFs exhibit not just fluorescence but also phosphorescence and scintillation has drawn attention to their optical capabilities for some time. Due to their hybrid composition, MOF materials are capable of a variety of emission phenomena (Figure 12) that are uncommon in other material classes. For
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Published 01 Jun 2023

ZnO-decorated SiC@C hybrids with strong electromagnetic absorption

  • Liqun Duan,
  • Zhiqian Yang,
  • Yilu Xia,
  • Xiaoqing Dai,
  • Jian’an Wu and
  • Minqian Sun

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 565–573, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.47

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  • samples is simulated based on the transmission line theory (Figure 4). The reflection loss of the hybrid/wax mixtures as a function of the frequency is determined from Z0 and Zin according to the following equation: where Z0 and Zin are the impedance of free space and the input impedance, respectively
  • , indicating that the conductivity loss through the carbon shell plays a dominant role in the EM dissipation. Based on the above analysis, it is considered that multiple loss mechanisms may contribute to the improvement of EM absorption for the as-prepared SiC@C-ZnO hybrids (Figure 7). First, the hybrid
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Published 04 May 2023

Nanoarchitectonics to entrap living cells in silica-based systems: encapsulations with yolk–shell and sepiolite nanomaterials

  • Celia Martín-Morales,
  • Jorge Fernández-Méndez,
  • Pilar Aranda and
  • Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 522–534, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.43

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  • present protocols. Keywords: biohybrids; cell immobilization; encapsulation; microorganism entrapment; silicates; Introduction Bio-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials with highly specific functionalities can be prepared following Nature’s design approaches [1]. A wide range of materials resulting from the
  • various issues regarding the replacement of toxic precursor components and by-products by non-toxic substances in order to improve viability and/or growth of the entrapped cells. In fact, new organic, inorganic, and hybrid materials for cell entrapment need to be optimised regarding characteristics such
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Published 25 Apr 2023
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