Surface-enhanced infrared absorption studies towards a new optical biosensor

• Lothar Leidner,
• Julia Stäb,
• Jennifer T. Adam and
• Günter Gauglitz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1736–1742, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.166

• the detector causing a nearly wavelength-independent baseline shift. Figure 2 shows the results of a sensor chip with polycarbonate (PC) coating. This case shows the same finding: appearance of the water band by addition of nanoparticles, and further absorbance increase by PBS-induced nanoparticle

• aggregation. The band increase here is smaller than in the case of the Teflon sensor. A possible explanation is that the nanoparticle solution has aged, and aggregation may have already started before PBS addition. Discussion Although the RIfS spectra look similar to the ATR spectra in [13], their origin is

The impact of the confinement of reactants on the metal distribution in bimetallic nanoparticles synthesized in reverse micelles

• Concha Tojo,
• Elena González and
• Nuria Vila-Romeu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1966–1979, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.206

• droplets of the microemulsion can be conceived as tiny compartments or nano-reactors. The isolation of each nanoparticle inside a micelle avoids nanoparticle aggregation with particles located in nearby micelles. In this way, microemulsion droplets act as ideal templates, providing a compartmentalized

Current state of laser synthesis of metal and alloy nanoparticles as ligand-free reference materials for nano-toxicological assays

• Christoph Rehbock,
• Jurij Jakobi,
• Lisa Gamrad,
• Selina van der Meer,
• Daniela Tiedemann,
• Ulrike Taylor,
• Wilfried Kues,
• Detlef Rath and
• Stephan Barcikowski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1523–1541, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.165

• nanoparticle aggregation [80], a strategy well established in literature and inspired by previous work on the impact of electrolytes on laser-fabricated gold nanoparticles [81]. The procedure to induce nanoparticle aggregation by electrolytes has been previously reported in context with PLML during the

Dye-sensitized Pt@TiO₂ core–shell nanostructures for the efficient photocatalytic generation of hydrogen

• Jun Fang,
• Lisha Yin,
• Shaowen Cao,
• Yusen Liao and
• Can Xue

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 360–364, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.41

• particles are in a solid spherical shape and composed by nanoparticle aggregation, and the average diameter of deposited Pt nanoparticles is about 5 nm. Figure 3 shows the UV–vis diffuse reflectance spectra of the Pt@TiO2 core–shell nanostructures and the Pt/TiO2 control sample. The absorption from 250 to