Growth, structure and stability of sputter-deposited MoS₂ thin films

• Reinhard Kaindl,
• Bernhard C. Bayer,
• Roland Resel,
• Thomas Müller,
• Viera Skakalova,
• Gerlinde Habler,
• Rainer Abart,
• Alexey S. Cherevan,
• Dominik Eder,
• Maxime Blatter,
• Fabian Fischer,
• Jannik C. Meyer,
• Dmitry K. Polyushkin and
• Wolfgang Waldhauser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 1115–1126, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.113

• electrochemical processes such as the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in electrochemical water splitting. For both types of applications, industrially scalable fabrication methods with good control over the MoS2 film properties are crucial. Here, we investigate scalable physical vapour deposition (PVD) of MoS2

• measurements suggest directions for future work on our PVD MoS2 films. Keywords: electrode; hydrogen evolution reaction (HER); magnetron sputter deposition; MoS2; reticulated vitreous carbon (RVC) foam; SiO2/Si substrate; Introduction Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) is a layered chemical compound comprised of

• noble metal-free catalytic material for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in electrochemical water splitting, which is fundamental to a hydrogen-based energy economy [14]. Density function theory showed the feasibility of MoS2 supported on graphite to catalyse electrochemical hydrogen evolution at a

Bio-inspired micro-to-nanoporous polymers with tunable stiffness

• Julia Syurik,
• Ruth Schwaiger,
• Prerna Sudera,
• Stephan Weyand,
• Siegbert Johnsen,
• Gabriele Wiegand and
• Hendrik Hölscher

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 906–914, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.92

• her great help in trimming the samples, Paul Abaffy for reliably great SEM pictures, Wolfgang Arbogast for performing SEC and his help to interpret the results, Marc Schneider for helpful advises and support. J.S. acknowledges funding from the Helmholtz Association (Grant-No. PD-157). This work was

Methods for preparing polymer-decorated single exchange-biased magnetic nanoparticles for application in flexible polymer-based films

• Laurence Ourry,
• Delphine Toulemon,
• Souad Ammar and
• Fayna Mammeri

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 408–417, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.43

• -determined atomic composition of as-prepared CoxFe3−xO4-CoO nanoparticles (ENP) and PS-based hybrids. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Dr. Thomas Gaudisson (who designed the CoxFe3−xO4@CoO ENPs) and Dr. John Lomas for fruitful discussions, Ms. Smina Hammaz for her technical support on

Nanocrystalline TiO₂/SnO₂ heterostructures for gas sensing

• Barbara Lyson-Sypien,
• Anna Kusior,
• Mieczylaw Rekas,
• Jan Zukrowski,
• Marta Gajewska,
• Katarzyna Michalow-Mauke,
• Thomas Graule,
• Marta Radecka and
• Katarzyna Zakrzewska

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 108–122, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.12

• : specific surface area. Theoretical and experimental results of power law analysis. Acknowledgements This work has been financed by the National Science Centre, Poland grant decision DEC-2011/03/B/ST7/01840. M Radecka has performed her research within National Science Centre, Poland project DEC-2012/07/B

Influence of hydrothermal synthesis parameters on the properties of hydroxyapatite nanoparticles

• Sylwia Kuśnieruk,
• Jacek Wojnarowicz,
• Agnieszka Chodara,
• Tadeusz Chudoba,
• Stanislaw Gierlotka and
• Witold Lojkowski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1586–1601, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.153

• bones contains very few hydroxyl groups. Among the examples of natural apatites given, only the apatite present in tooth enamel contains less carbonates and a higher concentration of hydroxyl ions [49]. In her work, Sharon Kehoe [50] draws attention to the importance of atmospheric environment. She

Direct formation of gold nanorods on surfaces using polymer-immobilised gold seeds

• Majid K. Abyaneh,
• Pietro Parisse and
• Loredana Casalis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 809–816, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.72

• ) high Mw PMMA with 60 wt % Au salt concentration (P2-60). Set-up for UV exposure on the samples using a deuterium UV lamp with diverted beam set-up using an UV-enhanced aluminium flat mirror. Acknowledgements MKA would like to thanks Ms. Katie Cunnea from Research complex at Harwell (RCaH) for her

Case studies on the formation of chalcogenide self-assembled monolayers on surfaces and dissociative processes

• Yongfeng Tong,
• Tingming Jiang,
• Azzedine Bendounan,
• Makri Nimbegondi Kotresh Harish,
• Angelo Giglia,
• Stefan Kubsky,
• Fausto Sirotti,
• Luca Pasquali,
• Srinivasan Sampath and
• Vladimir A. Esaulov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 263–277, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.24

• Scholarship Council for their Ph.D. scholarships. We thank Diana Dragoe for her help with XPS measurements using the K-Alfa spectrometer, Karine Chaouchi for help in the Soleil chemistry laboratory and François Nicolas for help in the Soleil surface laboratory. The research leading to some of these results

Surface coating affects behavior of metallic nanoparticles in a biological environment

• Darija Domazet Jurašin,
• Marija Ćurlin,
• Ivona Capjak,
• Tea Crnković,
• Marija Lovrić,
• Michal Babič,
• Daniel Horák,
• Ivana Vinković Vrček and
• Srećko Gajović

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 246–262, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.23

• –CT2012–316120) and the Czech Science Foundation (project 16-01128J). We thank Mrs. Iris Elezović for her great help during preparation of samples for TEM, and Mr. Makso Herman for his advices during writing.

Nanocuration workflows: Establishing best practices for identifying, inputting, and sharing data to inform decisions on nanomaterials

• Christina M. Powers,
• Karmann A. Mills,
• Stephanie A. Morris,
• Fred Klaessig,
• Sharon Gaheen,
• Nastassja Lewinski and
• Christine Ogilvie Hendren

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1860–1871, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.189

• respondents 5–7 are also authors on this article). Acknowledgements Authors are grateful to Mervi Heiskanen (NIH/NCI) for her time and technical expertise to provide tools that supported collaboration on this article. C.O.H. would like to gratefully acknowledge the Center for the Environmental Implications

Analyzing collaboration networks and developmental patterns of nano-enabled drug delivery (NEDD) for brain cancer

• Ying Huang,
• Jing Ma,
• Alan L. Porter,
• Seokbeom Kwon and
• Donghua Zhu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1666–1676, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.169

• his or her name appears after the first three in the authorship order. The author activities of top 20 authors in NEDD for brain cancer are shown as Figure 7. From the standpoint of research performance, many authors publish papers in high IF journals, which allows their work to be more widely

Transformation of hydrogen titanate nanoribbons to TiO₂ nanoribbons and the influence of the transformation strategies on the photocatalytic performance

• Melita Rutar,
• Nejc Rozman,
• Matej Pregelj,
• Carla Bittencourt,
• Romana Cerc Korošec,
• Andrijana Sever Škapin,
• Aleš Mrzel,
• Srečo D. Škapin and
• Polona Umek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 831–844, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.86

• oxidation of isopropanol under UV–vis illumination. Acknowledgements M. Rutar thanks Dr. Vojka Žunič, Jožef Stefan Institute, for her help with diffuse reflectance measurements on a UV–vis spectrometer, and Prof. Dr. Denis Arčon, Jožef Stefan Institute, for his help with the EPR measurements. C

Mapping of elasticity and damping in an α + β titanium alloy through atomic force acoustic microscopy

• M. Kalyan Phani,
• Anish Kumar,
• T. Jayakumar,
• Walter Arnold and
• Konrad Samwer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 767–776, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.79

• to Dr. (Mrs.) Vani Shankar for her help in the EBSD study.

Proinflammatory and cytotoxic response to nanoparticles in precision-cut lung slices

• Stephanie Hirn,
• Nadine Haberl,
• Kateryna Loza,
• Matthias Epple,
• Wolfgang G. Kreyling,
• Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser,
• Markus Rehberg and
• Fritz Krombach

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2440–2449, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.253

• to thank Alexander Dietrich and Thomas Gudermann from the Walther-Straub Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, LMU Munich, for providing the Krumdieck tissue slicer. Moreover, we would like to thank Claudia Fahney for her excellent technical assistance. Many thanks also to Tobias Stöger from the

In vitro and in vivo interactions of selected nanoparticles with rodent serum proteins and their consequences in biokinetics

• Wolfgang G. Kreyling,
• Stefanie Fertsch-Gapp,
• Martin Schäffler,
• Blair D. Johnston,
• Nadine Haberl,
• Christian Pfeiffer,
• Jörg Diendorf,
• Carsten Schleh,
• Stephanie Hirn,
• Manuela Semmler-Behnke,
• Matthias Epple and
• Wolfgang J. Parak

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1699–1711, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.180

• (MALDI–TOF MS). Only proteins are listed that were detected at least twice. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Paula Mayer for her excellent technical assistance. This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DGF, “Biological Responses to Nanoscale Particles”, SPP 1313) and

Growth evolution and phase transition from chalcocite to digenite in nanocrystalline copper sulfide: Morphological, optical and electrical properties

• Priscilla Vasthi Quintana-Ramirez,
• Ma. Concepción Arenas-Arrocena,
• José Santos-Cruz,
• Marina Vega-González,
• Omar Martínez-Alvarez,
• Víctor Manuel Castaño-Meneses,
• Laura Susana Acosta-Torres and
• Javier de la Fuente-Hernández

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1542–1552, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.166

• , CB154787) and SENER-CONACyT (CeMIE-Sol project No. 27). The authors are grateful for the technical support received from Domingo Rangel, Beatriz Millán, Alicia del Real, Lourdes Palma (INB-UNAM) and Gabriel Nava (INB-UNAM). Thank to Marcela Ovalle Marroquín for her appreciable helps in HRTEM.

Influence of the PDMS substrate stiffness on the adhesion of Acanthamoeba castellanii

• Sören B. Gutekunst,
• Carsten Grabosch,
• Alexander Kovalev,
• Stanislav N. Gorb and
• Christine Selhuber-Unkel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1393–1398, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.152

• the acanthamoeba strain and for his advice. Furthermore, we thank Heidrun Ließegang and Julia F. Reverey for technical support in culturing A. castellanii. Manuela Lieb is acknowledged for her general support in laboratory work and Anneke Möhring for microindentation experiments. This study was

Mimicking exposures to acute and lifetime concentrations of inhaled silver nanoparticles by two different in vitro approaches

• Fabian Herzog,
• Kateryna Loza,
• Sandor Balog,
• Martin J. D. Clift,
• Matthias Epple,
• Peter Gehr,
• Alke Petri-Fink and
• Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1357–1370, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.149

• Supporting Information features additional statistical, such as numerical values and confidence intervals. Supporting Information File 156: Statistical information. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Yuki Umehara for her technical support and Dimitri Vanhecke for his scientific assistance

Pyrite nanoparticles as a Fenton-like reagent for in situ remediation of organic pollutants

• Carolina Gil-Lozano,
• Elisabeth Losa-Adams,
• Alfonso F.-Dávila and
• Luis Gago-Duport

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 855–864, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.97

• Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation as part of the MICINN-FEDER Project CGL2011-30079. The authors would like to thank doctoral student Ruth Otero Lorenzo (Department of Applied Physics, University of Vigo), for her help and advice in the synthesis of pyrite nanoparticles, and Dr. José Benito

Mesoporous cerium oxide nanospheres for the visible-light driven photocatalytic degradation of dyes

• Subas K. Muduli,
• Songling Wang,
• Shi Chen,
• Chin Fan Ng,
• Cheng Hon Alfred Huan,
• Tze Chien Sum and
• Han Sen Soo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 517–523, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.60

• (NRF), Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme. S.K. Muduli and H.S. Soo thank Nanyang Asst. Prof. Ling Xing Yi for the use of her solar simulator, and Nanyang Asst. Prof. Zhao Yanli for the use of his gas sorption

• analyzer. The authors also thank Dr. Wei Fengxia for her assistance with HRTEM measurements and Dr. Sarifuddin Gazi for his help with EPR experiments.

The softening of human bladder cancer cells happens at an early stage of the malignancy process

• Jorge R. Ramos,
• Joanna Pabijan,
• Ricardo Garcia and
• Malgorzata Lekka

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 447–457, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.52

• ± SD. Tukey–Kramer multiple comparison test of the results shown in Figure 6 with significance level P = 0.05 for all indentation depths.a Supporting Information Supporting Information File 18: Additional experimental details. Acknowledgements We thank A. Ruiz for sharing with us her knowledge of

Confinement dependence of electro-catalysts for hydrogen evolution from water splitting

• Mikaela Lindgren and
• Itai Panas

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 195–201, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.21

• descriptor for the electro-catalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). It offers a complementary perspective on a recent study addressing the oxidation of zirconium alloys by water [4][5]. The overall reaction is taken to occur by water utilizing hydrolysis to penetrate the oxide scale along hydroxylated

• -proton recombination channel (see Figure 1b), the correlation between the computed reaction energies for the HER, Equation 6, and the experimental hydrogen pick-up fractions (HPUF), i.e., the fraction of the hydrogen, which does not undergo hydrogen evolution but are instead picked-up by the alloy during

• zirconium oxidation by water, leads to a model as displayed in Figure 1e. It is noteworthy, that the energetics for the chemical reaction step in Equation 6 offers a measure of the confinement-dependent cathodic over-potential for the HER along the reaction channel (Equations 2–6). The relevance of the

Radiation-induced nanostructures: Formation processes and applications

• Michael Huth

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 533–534, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.61

• intended to provide a forum that brings together selected contributions from these fields. It is hoped that the reader originally interested in only one of the presented topics may be willing to digress a bit from his or her usual main path and take a look into the other research areas. Ultimately, the

Nonconservative current-induced forces: A physical interpretation

• Tchavdar N. Todorov,
• Daniel Dundas,
• Anthony T. Paxton and
• Andrew P. Horsfield

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 727–733, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.79

• . Acknowledgements We are grateful for discussions with Claire Buchanan during her MSci work at Queen’s, and for support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, under grants EP/C006739/1, EP/I00713X/1.

Hierarchically structured superhydrophobic flowers with low hysteresis of the wild pansy (Viola tricolor) – new design principles for biomimetic materials

• Anna J. Schulte,
• Damian M. Droste,
• Kerstin Koch and
• Wilhelm Barthlott

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 228–236, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.27

• attempts have been made to fabricate superhydrophobic surfaces with high adhesion properties inspired by rose petals [20][22][23][24][25]. Bhushan and Her [25], for example, replicated dried and thereby collapsed, micropapillae, and examined the wetting behavior of these structurally changed petals