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Oxidation of Au/Ag films by oxygen plasma: phase separation and generation of nanoporosity

  • Abdel-Aziz El Mel,
  • Said A. Mansour,
  • Mujaheed Pasha,
  • Atef Zekri,
  • Janarthanan Ponraj,
  • Akshath Shetty and
  • Yousef Haik

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1608–1614, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.143

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  • gold/silver oxide nanostructures [20]. Starting from Au/Ag alloy nanospheres, they showed that gold/silver oxide core/shell nanospheres with a hollow interior could be obtained after oxidation using atomic oxygen. In this study we further explored the oxidation and phase separation events observed by
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Published 22 Oct 2020

Optically and electrically driven nanoantennas

  • Monika Fleischer,
  • Dai Zhang and
  • Alfred J. Meixner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1542–1545, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.136

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  • revealing local structural properties is illustrated in [49], where crystalline and amorphous regions within coreshell silicon nanowires are discerned with an optical resolution of a few nanometers. This study further demonstrates that it is possible to combine polarization angle-resolved experiments with
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Published 07 Oct 2020

Antimicrobial metal-based nanoparticles: a review on their synthesis, types and antimicrobial action

  • Matías Guerrero Correa,
  • Fernanda B. Martínez,
  • Cristian Patiño Vidal,
  • Camilo Streitt,
  • Juan Escrig and
  • Carol Lopez de Dicastillo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1450–1469, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.129

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  • conjugation with ethanediylbis(isonicotinate), which allowed for the chelation of the metal ions. These SPION silver coreshell NPs with clear ligand gaps and magnetic properties have the ability to absorb metallic NPs on their outer surface at a high packing density, which significantly enhances their
  • nanotubes which increased their antimicrobial activity at lower Ag NP concentrations. This is an effect of the morphology of the tubular hollow structures which present a better retention of Ag NPs [142]. Maniprasad and Santra (2012) developed novel coreshell silica structures containing highly dispersed
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Published 25 Sep 2020

High permittivity, breakdown strength, and energy storage density of polythiophene-encapsulated BaTiO3 nanoparticles

  • Adnanullah Khan,
  • Amir Habib and
  • Adeel Afzal

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1190–1197, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.103

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  • . This article presents the synthesis of polythiophene-encapsulated BaTiO3 (BTO-PTh) nanoparticles via an in situ Cu(II)-catalyzed chemical oxidative polymerization of thiophene monomer on hydrothermally obtained tetragonal BTO nanocrystals. The formed coreshell-type BTO-PTh nanoparticles exhibit
  • )-encapsulated BaTiO3 nanoparticles with a 9:1 mass ratio of BTO/PTh, and a facile method for the synthesis of inverted [11] coreshell-type BTO-PTh nanostructures, which yields a uniform PTh coating on the BTO surface. BTO-PTh nanoparticles are prepared by Cu(II)-catalyzed oxidative polymerization of PTh on the
  • BTO surface. This procedure yields a high BTO content in the PTh shell, which not only results in superior dielectric properties such as high permittivity and low loss, but also significantly increases breakdown strength. Consequently, coreshell BTO-PTh nanoparticles exhibit greatly improved energy
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Published 10 Aug 2020

Revealing the local crystallinity of single silicon core–shell nanowires using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

  • Marius van den Berg,
  • Ardeshir Moeinian,
  • Arne Kobald,
  • Yu-Ting Chen,
  • Anke Horneber,
  • Steffen Strehle,
  • Alfred J. Meixner and
  • Dai Zhang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1147–1156, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.99

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  • , Germany 10.3762/bjnano.11.99 Abstract Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy is combined with polarization angle-resolved spectroscopy to investigate the nanometer-scale structural properties of coreshell silicon nanowires (crystalline Si core and amorphous Si shell), which were synthesized by platinum
  • local structural properties of Si nanomaterials at the sub-10 nanometer scale using tip-enhanced Raman techniques. Keywords: coreshell nanowires; local crystallinity; polarization angle-resolved spectroscopy; silicon; tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy; Introduction The properties of silicon are long
  • -doped silicon nanowires (SiNWs). A rational strategy to obtain radial homo- and heterojunctions is to overcoat the as-grown nanowires within the same reaction chamber by implementing a conventional CVD process (e.g., thermal SiH4-CVD) yielding coreshell nanowires [14]. Although ideal epitaxial growth
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Published 31 Jul 2020

Photothermally active nanoparticles as a promising tool for eliminating bacteria and biofilms

  • Mykola Borzenkov,
  • Piersandro Pallavicini,
  • Angelo Taglietti,
  • Laura D’Alfonso,
  • Maddalena Collini and
  • Giuseppe Chirico

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1134–1146, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.98

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  • field regarding the use of several gold nanostructures, such as nanocages, nanorods, nanostars, and coreshell silver/gold nanoparticles for laser-driven hyperthermal ablation of multi-drug resistant bacteria [52]. Therefore, we will focus here on the latest achievements in this field including the
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Published 31 Jul 2020

Applications of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles in drug and therapeutic delivery, and biotechnological advancements

  • Maria Suciu,
  • Corina M. Ionescu,
  • Alexandra Ciorita,
  • Septimiu C. Tripon,
  • Dragos Nica,
  • Hani Al-Salami and
  • Lucian Barbu-Tudoran

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1092–1109, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.94

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  • of iron oxides in the form of magnetite (Fe3O4) or maghemite (Fe2O3) and are easy to produce through a few well-documented synthesis methods yielding different forms and structures (e.g., round, cubic, hexagonal, clusters, coreshell with gold, silica, polymers, or surfactants). A lot of research is
  • are considered the most effective, but unfortunately pure iron is toxic because it leads to high oxidative stress. To avoid this problem there is a lot of ongoing work regarding the design of coreshell particles with pure iron cores [63][64]. Octopod SPIONs (30 nm) were also shown to be better than
  • ]. For enhanced qualities, SPIONs were formulated in various combinations with other metals. Fazal et al. [64] designed a 100 nm iron–gold coreshell SPION complex that is able to give good contrast in MRI and to generate heat when activated by radio frequency fields (a property of nanometer-sized gold
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Published 27 Jul 2020

Comparison of fresh and aged lithium iron phosphate cathodes using a tailored electrochemical strain microscopy technique

  • Matthias Simolka,
  • Hanno Kaess and
  • Kaspar Andreas Friedrich

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 583–596, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.46

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  • conductive AFM (CAFM). Luchkin et al. used KPFM to analyse the Li-ion distribution in graphite anodes and found a coreshell structure in aged graphite particles [21]. Wu et al. used KPFM to track the changes in the surface potential of LiCoO2 cathodes during ageing and found a decrease of the surface
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Published 07 Apr 2020

Luminescent gold nanoclusters for bioimaging applications

  • Nonappa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 533–546, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.42

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  • receptor-positive (FR+) oral squamous cell carcinoma (KB) and breast cancer adenocarcinoma MCF-7 cell lines [88]. Since then, there have been numerous other reports that have shown various surface modifications to image a wide variety of cell lines. Pan et al. reported composite coreshell nanoparticle
  • –nanocluster agglomerates as luminescent nanocarriers for imaging and combination therapy [89][90]. Coreshell nanoparticles consisting of oleic acid-capped superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs, d = 6.7 ± 1.2 nm) were used (Figure 5A). The IONPs were subsequently coated with a gold shell using the
  • citrate reduction of Au(III) salts resulting in coreshell (IO@Au) nanoparticles of 9.3 ± 2.6 nm. The coreshell particles underwent lysozyme-mediated aggregation (IO@Au-Lys). The aggregated structures were further treated with Au-BSA NCs (IO@Au-Lys-Au-BSA) to form a composite structure. The combination
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Published 30 Mar 2020

Multilayer capsules made of weak polyelectrolytes: a review on the preparation, functionalization and applications in drug delivery

  • Varsha Sharma and
  • Anandhakumar Sundaramurthy

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 508–532, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.41

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  • core. The schematic diagram of layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition on colloidal templates, core dissolution and drug encapsulation into LbL-assembled capsules is shown in Figure 1. The method of fabricating coreshell particles and multilayered hollow capsules via LbL assembly was originally proposed and
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Published 27 Mar 2020

High-performance asymmetric supercapacitor made of NiMoO4 nanorods@Co3O4 on a cellulose-based carbon aerogel

  • Meixia Wang,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Xibin Yi,
  • Benxue Liu,
  • Xinfu Zhao and
  • Xiaochan Liu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 240–251, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.18

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  • , which exhibited a capacitance of 3.6 F/cm2 at 3 mA/cm2, a capacitance retention of 82% and an increase of the current density from 3 to 15 mA/cm2 [21]. Cai et al. reported a facile two-step hydrothermal method to synthesize unique 3D Co3O4/NiMoO4 core/shell nanowire arrays on Ni foam, and the resulting
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Published 21 Jan 2020

Rational design of block copolymer self-assemblies in photodynamic therapy

  • Maxime Demazeau,
  • Laure Gibot,
  • Anne-Françoise Mingotaud,
  • Patricia Vicendo,
  • Clément Roux and
  • Barbara Lonetti

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 180–212, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.15

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Published 15 Jan 2020

Fabrication of Ag-modified hollow titania spheres via controlled silver diffusion in Ag–TiO2 core–shell nanostructures

  • Bartosz Bartosewicz,
  • Malwina Liszewska,
  • Bogusław Budner,
  • Marta Michalska-Domańska,
  • Krzysztof Kopczyński and
  • Bartłomiej J. Jankiewicz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 141–146, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.12

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  • fabrication step. The synthesized nanostructures exhibit a broadband optical absorption in the UV–vis range. Keywords: coreshell nanostructures; hollow spheres; silver diffusion; silver-modified titanium dioxide; titania; Findings In recent years, nanometer- to micrometer-sized inorganic hollow spheres
  • silver diffusion in Ag–TiO2 coreshell nanostructures (CSNs). Our approach comprises three simple steps starting from the synthesis of the metallic core, through its coating with titania and finally annealing leading to plasmonic hollow nanostructures with plasmon resonance in a broad spectral range. SEM
  • ]. Formation of Ag-modified TiO2 HSs (top) and SEM images showing Ag–TiO2 nanostructures at different stages of their fabrication (bottom, scale bar = 200 nm). SEM images of freshly prepared Ag–TiO2 coreshell nanostructures (A) and Ag–TiO2 coreshell nanostructures after annealing at 150 °C for 0.5 h (B), 1.5
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Published 10 Jan 2020

Synthesis of amorphous and graphitized porous nitrogen-doped carbon spheres as oxygen reduction reaction catalysts

  • Maximilian Wassner,
  • Markus Eckardt,
  • Andreas Reyer,
  • Thomas Diemant,
  • Michael S. Elsaesser,
  • R. Jürgen Behm and
  • Nicola Hüsing

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1–15, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.1

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  • beneficial or disadvantageous. The degree of graphitization can be increased, e.g., by higher reaction temperatures or catalytic graphitization [31][32][33]. Previously, we had reported on coreshell titanium (oxy)nitride and tantalum (oxy)nitride@N-doped carbon composite spheres, which were based on a
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The different ways to chitosan/hyaluronic acid nanoparticles: templated vs direct complexation. Influence of particle preparation on morphology, cell uptake and silencing efficiency

  • Arianna Gennari,
  • Julio M. Rios de la Rosa,
  • Erwin Hohn,
  • Maria Pelliccia,
  • Enrique Lallana,
  • Roberto Donno,
  • Annalisa Tirella and
  • Nicola Tirelli

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2594–2608, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.250

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  • -coated particles implies a yet-to-be-proven coreshell structure, as opposed to homogeneous particles obtained via direct chitosan/HA complexation; whether the different process, and the possibly associated differences in composition and morphology may result in a biologically different performance in
  • -potential and therefore yielding HA-coated, coreshell nanoparticles (bottom left), or B) allow HA to replace TPP in their bulk. The latter process likely is morphologically templated, since it occurs within the nanoparticles. In a process based on the direct complexation between chitosan and HA (right
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Formation of metal/semiconductor Cu–Si composite nanostructures

  • Natalya V. Yumozhapova,
  • Andrey V. Nomoev,
  • Vyacheslav V. Syzrantsev and
  • Erzhena C. Khartaeva

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2497–2504, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.240

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  • create composite Janus-like or coreshell nanoparticles. The size and the unique morphology at the nanoscale provide new optical, electronic, magnetic and surface properties to these nanoparticles [1][2]. In addition, it is possible to combine materials of which alloys do not exist in nature. The shell
  • rapid heating and evaporation of both materials and the possibility of rapid controlled cooling of the resulting vapour mixture, the formation of nanoparticles with a complex structure is possible. In [18][19][20][21], the mechanism of formation of coreshell and Janus-like nanoparticles based on the
  • and residence time in the liquid phase) in the formation, structure, and morphology of nanoparticles remains unclear. In [17], the simulation of the formation of the Si/Au coreshell nanoparticles obtained from two liquid drops of gold and silicon was presented. Additionally, the authors, using the
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Published 13 Dec 2019

Label-free highly sensitive probe detection with novel hierarchical SERS substrates fabricated by nanoindentation and chemical reaction methods

  • Jingran Zhang,
  • Tianqi Jia,
  • Yongda Yan,
  • Li Wang,
  • Peng Miao,
  • Yimin Han,
  • Xinming Zhang,
  • Guangfeng Shi,
  • Yanquan Geng,
  • Zhankun Weng,
  • Daniel Laipple and
  • Zuobin Wang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2483–2496, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.239

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  • detected using the AuNPs/PMMA film SERS substrates. Zhang et al. [12] fabricated coreshell structures comprised of SiO2 and gold with a sub-10 nm shell thickness by adding HAuCl4 and the reducing agent K2CO3 on the SiO2 surface and found that the SERS enhancement becomes weaker with increasing shell
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Small protein sequences can induce cellular uptake of complex nanohybrids

  • Jan-Philip Merkl,
  • Malak Safi,
  • Christian Schmidtke,
  • Fadi Aldeek,
  • Johannes Ostermann,
  • Tatiana Domitrovic,
  • Sebastian Gärtner,
  • John E. Johnson,
  • Horst Weller and
  • Hedi Mattoussi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2477–2482, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.238

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  • (not to scale). The central QD (red, yellow, blue = core/shell/shell) is embedded in a crosslinked polymer micelle, consisting of a hydrophobic block (red) and an amphiphilic block (PEO). Interaction of the QDs with AuNPs (purple) is driven by the amine functional group. Gold nanoparticles are His
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Published 12 Dec 2019

Coating of upconversion nanoparticles with silica nanoshells of 5–250 nm thickness

  • Cynthia Kembuan,
  • Maysoon Saleh,
  • Bastian Rühle,
  • Ute Resch-Genger and
  • Christina Graf

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2410–2421, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.231

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  • remain constant. Hence, the number of micelles stays constant, and their size is increased to accommodate the growing coreshell particles. Consequently, the formation of core-free silica particles is suppressed. When the negative zeta potential of the particles, which continuously decreased during the
  • of the UCNP@SiO2 coreshell particles was obtained from these STEM images, and the corresponding hydrodynamic diameters were measured by dynamic light scattering (DLS, see below in Table 1). Although large, core-free silica particles can easily be obtained by Stöber-like growth processes [28], and
  • were adjusted so that they are large enough to host the growing coreshell particles. After an initial silica shell of 5–10 nm was coated onto the UCNP, a further growth by a Stöber-like growth process was attempted, i.e., the particles were redispersed in ethanol, and ammonia water, water and TEOS
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Review of advanced sensor devices employing nanoarchitectonics concepts

  • Katsuhiko Ariga,
  • Tatsuyuki Makita,
  • Masato Ito,
  • Taizo Mori,
  • Shun Watanabe and
  • Jun Takeya

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2014–2030, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.198

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  • function of zeolitic imidazolate framework structures on ZnO nanorods [132]. Coreshell structures of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks and ZnO nanorods were prepared by direct growth of the framework on the ZnO nanorods. Limitation effects by the framework aperture provided improved selectivity for
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Published 16 Oct 2019

Optimization and performance of nitrogen-doped carbon dots as a color conversion layer for white-LED applications

  • Tugrul Guner,
  • Hurriyet Yuce,
  • Didem Tascioglu,
  • Eren Simsek,
  • Umut Savaci,
  • Aziz Genc,
  • Servet Turan and
  • Mustafa M. Demir

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2004–2013, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.197

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  • another work, novel nitrogen-doped multiple-core@shell-structured AC-CDots (AC: Aphen and Citric acid) with a tricolor emission comprising red, green, and blue were, for the first time, synthesized via a one-pot hydrothermal approach by Zhang et al. [49]. The authors further demonstrated that by combining
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Porous silver-coated pNIPAM-co-AAc hydrogel nanocapsules

  • William W. Bryan,
  • Riddhiman Medhi,
  • Maria D. Marquez,
  • Supparesk Rittikulsittichai,
  • Michael Tran and
  • T. Randall Lee

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1973–1982, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.194

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  • describes the preparation and characterization of a new type of coreshell nanoparticle in which the structure consists of a hydrogel core encapsulated within a porous silver shell. The thermo-responsive hydrogel cores were prepared by surfactant-free emulsion polymerization of a selected mixture of N
  • compositions [11][12][13][14][15]. Coreshell nanostructured composites have been the focus of recent work due to their structural simplicity and ability to introduce multifunctional properties into their structure [16][17][18][19][20]. One typical structure is that of an exogenous spherical capsule containing
  • create photothermally active biomaterials [41][42][43]. Recently, metal nanoshells, a class of optically active coreshell metal nanoparticles, have drawn interest, not only because of their ability to interact with light across a wide range of visible and NIR wavelengths, but also because of their
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Magnetic properties of biofunctionalized iron oxide nanoparticles as magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents

  • Natalia E. Gervits,
  • Andrey A. Gippius,
  • Alexey V. Tkachev,
  • Evgeniy I. Demikhov,
  • Sergey S. Starchikov,
  • Igor S. Lyubutin,
  • Alexander L. Vasiliev,
  • Vladimir P. Chekhonin,
  • Maxim A. Abakumov,
  • Alevtina S. Semkina and
  • Alexander G. Mazhuga

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1964–1972, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.193

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  • coreshell structure iron oxide nanoparticles of the same size has already been described and calculated based on magnetic measurements. In the HSA-coated sample, we also succeeded to observe the ZF-NMR signal, despite the very low iron content per unit volume and the resulting low signal-to-noise
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Fabrication and characterization of Si1−xGex nanocrystals in as-grown and annealed structures: a comparative study

  • Muhammad Taha Sultan,
  • Adrian Valentin Maraloiu,
  • Ionel Stavarache,
  • Jón Tómas Gudmundsson,
  • Andrei Manolescu,
  • Valentin Serban Teodorescu,
  • Magdalena Lidia Ciurea and
  • Halldór Gudfinnur Svavarsson

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1873–1882, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.182

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  • annealing results in the periodically arranged columnar self-assembly of SiGe coreshell nanocrystals. An increase in photocurrent intensity by more than an order of magnitude was achieved by annealing. Furthermore, a detailed discussion is provided on strain development within the structures, the
  • consists of coreshell NCs/NPs with the core being Ge-rich Si1−xGex NCs (crystallographic peak (111) position, shifts from 27.87° to 27.75° for MLs in as-grown and annealed at 800 °C states, respectively) surrounded by a shell of crystalline Si in amorphous SiGeO. This behavior can be explained by phase
  • of the SiGe ellipsoid plus the thickness of the SiGeO oxide cover-layer, i.e., each SiGe crystallite is covered by 2–3 nm of SiGeO oxide, looking like a coreshell particle. An elemental mapping over a structure (TiO2/SiGe/TiO2)3 annealed at 600 °C in our previous study [37], showed a similar
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Published 17 Sep 2019

Toxicity and safety study of silver and gold nanoparticles functionalized with cysteine and glutathione

  • Barbara Pem,
  • Igor M. Pongrac,
  • Lea Ulm,
  • Ivan Pavičić,
  • Valerije Vrček,
  • Darija Domazet Jurašin,
  • Marija Ljubojević,
  • Adela Krivohlavek and
  • Ivana Vinković Vrček

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1802–1817, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.175

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  • demonstrated lower activation of ATM and H2A.X than in control cells. However, the detailed mechanism behind these results should be investigated in future studies. When comparing the toxicity of CYS- or GSH-coated NPs with those of the same core shell (Au or Ag) but coated with other types of stabilization
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