Donor–acceptor graphene-based hybrid materials facilitating photo-induced electron-transfer reactions

• Anastasios Stergiou,
• Georgia Pagona and
• Nikos Tagmatarchis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1580–1589, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.170

• graphene and ferrocene properties through chemical bonding. The photo-responsiveness of the developed composite was investigated by fabricating a Au/GO–Fc/Au device. Interestingly, a significant enhancement in current density under illumination with light was observed, which suggests charge-transfer

From sticky to slippery: Biological and biologically-inspired adhesion and friction

• Stanislav N. Gorb and
• Kerstin Koch

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1450–1451, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.157

• Beilstein-Institut for their continuous great support. Stanislav N. Gorb and Kerstin Koch Kiel and Kleve, July 2014 Different physical phenomena contribute to adhesion and friction in biological systems. From left to right: intermolecular van der Waals (vdW) interactions, chemical bonding, capillary

Nanodiamond-DGEA peptide conjugates for enhanced delivery of doxorubicin to prostate cancer

• Amanee D Salaam,
• Patrick Hwang,
• Roberus McIntosh,
• Hadiyah N Green,
• Ho-Wook Jun and
• Derrick Dean

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 937–945, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.107

• (FTIR, Nicolet Thermo Scientific) was used to confirm the chemical bonding of ND to DGEA and the presence of DOX on the ND-DGEA surface; spectra were collected from 400–3500 cm−1 at ambient temperature in attenuated total reflectance mode (ATR) with 64 scans per sample. A Zeta-sizer Nano ZS (Malvern

Biomolecule-assisted synthesis of carbon nitride and sulfur-doped carbon nitride heterojunction nanosheets: An efficient heterojunction photocatalyst for photoelectrochemical applications

• Hua Bing Tao,
• Hong Bin Yang,
• Jiazang Chen,
• Jianwei Miao and
• Bin Liu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 770–777, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.89

• , JEOL, JSM6701F) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM, JEOL 3010). The chemical bonding information was studied with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (Kratos AXIS Ultra spectrometer) with a monochromatized Al Kα X-ray source (1486.71 eV). The Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area of sample was

High-resolution electrical and chemical characterization of nm-scale organic and inorganic devices

• Pierre Eyben

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 318–319, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.35

• (within 3 to 5%) with nanometer spatial resolution (subnanometer in inorganic and below 10 nm in organic) over a broad dynamic range (up to five decades). Ideally, they should also be able to probe the elemental distribution and to provide information on chemical bonding. In this Thematic Series, we

Forming nanoparticles of water-soluble ionic molecules and embedding them into polymer and glass substrates

• Stella Kiel,
• Olga Grinberg,
• Nina Perkas,
• Jerome Charmet,
• Herbert Kepner and
• Aharon Gedanken

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 267–276, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.30

• . One of these methods is chemical bonding. For example, the cross-linking process was used for the embedding of NaCl nanocrystals into polymers containing unsaturated double bonds [1][2]. Some other methods were developed for the coating of polymers with nanocrystals of NaCl, Na2CO3 and Na2SO4

Molecular-resolution imaging of pentacene on KCl(001)

• Julia L. Neff,
• Jan Götzen,
• Enhui Li,
• Michael Marz and
• Regina Hoffmann-Vogel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 186–191, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.20

• molecules with the substrate is much weaker than on metals because the partial transfer of electrons is expected to be weak, such that the interaction is dominated by van der Waals and electrostatic interactions, as opposed to chemical bonding. A unique tool to investigate the thin-film structure of

Self-assembled monolayers and titanium dioxide: From surface patterning to potential applications

• Yaron Paz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 845–861, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.94

• force may compensate to some extent for the lack of chemical bonding between the quantum dots and the terminating groups of the monolayer, thus, enabling the high photocurrent response measured for this system. Another study on charge transport between SAMs and TiO2 was based on a mixed-monolayer

Investigation on structural, thermal, optical and sensing properties of meta-stable hexagonal MoO₃ nanocrystals of one dimensional structure

• Angamuthuraj Chithambararaj and
• Arumugam Chandra Bose

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 585–592, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.62

• , belonging to the (210) plane of h-MoO3. The electron diffraction, with a highly intense dotted pattern, reveals the single crystalline nature of h-MoO3. Furthermore, the elemental composition and chemical bonding information were confirmed by EELS investigation. Figure 7 depicts the typical EELS profile of

Simulation of bonding effects in HRTEM images of light element materials

• Simon Kurasch,
• Jannik C. Meyer,
• Daniela Künzel,
• Axel Groß and
• Ute Kaiser

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 394–404, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.45

• on the final result. Furthermore we apply the simulation scheme to three model systems: A single atom boron and a single atom oxygen substitution in graphene and an oxygen adatom on graphene. Keywords: chemical bonding; DFT; graphene; HRTEM; Introduction Conventional HRTEM image simulation so far

• simulation [1]. About ten years later, and after enormous improvement in electron optics and the resolution of the TEM by means of aberration correction [6][7], Deng et al. [2][8] performed DFT based HRTEM calculations for bulk oxides and found that chemical bonding should be detectable and in practice is

• , we were able to measure the influence of charge redistribution on the HRTEM image contrast experimentally for two different materials, namely nitrogen doped graphene and single-layer hexagonal boron nitride [13]. This result has two important implications: First, chemical bonding gives small