UHV deposition and characterization of a mononuclear iron(III) β-diketonate complex on Au(111)

• Irene Cimatti,
• Silviya Ninova,
• Valeria Lanzilotto,
• Luigi Malavolti,
• Luca Rigamonti,
• Brunetto Cortigiani,
• Matteo Mannini,
• Elena Magnano,
• Federica Bondino,
• Federico Totti,
• Andrea Cornia and
• Roberta Sessoli

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2139–2148, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.223

• high coverages compatible with an ex situ prepared sample cannot be achieved by UHV sublimation, a thick film sample of Fe(dpm)3 was prepared by drop-casting. XAS spectra at the Fe L2,3 edge, acquired at the BACH beamline of the Elettra synchrotron for both circular left (σ+) and circular right (σ

• Au 4f7/2 peak at 80.04 eV. UPS spectra were calibrated such that the Fermi level was located at 0 eV. X-ray absorption spectroscopy The deposition was prepared by drop-casting using a 2 mM dichloromethane solution on a gold film grown on mica. The Fe L2,3 XMCD measurements were performed in total

Imaging the intracellular degradation of biodegradable polymer nanoparticles

• Anne-Kathrin Barthel,
• Martin Dass,
• Melanie Dröge,
• Jens-Michael Cramer,
• Daniela Baumann,
• Markus Urban,
• Katharina Landfester,
• Volker Mailänder and
• Ingo Lieberwirth

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1905–1917, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.201

• decoration quality, pristine magnetite-labeled PLLA nanoparticles were subjected to TEM investigation. Figure 3 shows TEM micrographs of the magnetite-decorated PLLA nanoparticles prepared by either drop casting on a carbon support film and additional carbon evaporation (Figure 3A), or prepared by high

• membrane; Green: PLLA nanoparticles. TEM bright field micrographs of a dispersion of magnetite-decorated PLLA nanoparticles prepared by drop casting and subsequent carbon evaporation (A) and by high pressure freezing (HPF) followed by freeze substitution and microtomy (B). The inset of B shows the

Controlling the dispersion of supported polyoxometalate heterogeneous catalysts: impact of hybridization and the role of hydrophilicity–hydrophobicity balance and supramolecularity

• Gijo Raj,
• Colas Swalus,
• Eglantine Arendt,
• Pierre Eloy,
• Michel Devillers and
• Eric M. Gaigneaux

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1749–1759, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.185

• driven through the electrostatic interaction of POM anions with the positively charged DODA surfactant. Firstly, we study the DODA–POM hybrids deposited on HOPG. Drop-casting of a small amount (about 9.5 µL) of a very dilute solution (0.025 g·L−1) allows for the formation of molecular layers that are of

Highly NO₂ sensitive caesium doped graphene oxide conductometric sensors

• Carlo Piloto,
• Marco Notarianni,
• Mahnaz Shafiei,
• Elena Taran,
• Dilini Galpaya,
• Cheng Yan and
• Nunzio Motta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1073–1081, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.120

• studied by varying the gas concentration. The developed GO-Cs sensor shows a higher response to NO2 than the pristine GO based sensor due to the oxygen functional groups. The detection limit measured with GO-Cs sensor is ≈90 ppb. Keywords: caesium; conductometric; doping; drop casting; gas sensor

• polyvinylidene fluoride membrane (0.2 μm). The precipitate was then added to water (30 mL) and filtered. The process was repeated twice to obtain dark solid GO-Cs. Finally, the gas sensors were fabricated by drop casting of the prepared GO and GO-Cs materials onto 2 × 2 mm2 transducers and then they were placed

Optical and structural characterization of oleic acid-stabilized CdTe nanocrystals for solution thin film processing

• Claudio Davet Gutiérrez-Lazos,
• Mauricio Ortega-López,
• Manuel A. Pérez-Guzmán,
• A. Mauricio Espinoza-Rivas,
• Francisco Solís-Pomar,
• Rebeca Ortega-Amaya,
• L. Gerardo Silva-Vidaurri,
• Virginia C. Castro-Peña and
• Eduardo Pérez-Tijerina

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 881–886, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.100

• crystal structure, which make them very attractive in this technological area. Thin films deposition techniques such as drop-casting [17], screen printing [18], and ink jet printing [19], are currently used to fabricate electronic devices on great variety of substrates, either rigid or flexible, looking

• for preserve their size effects [20][21][22]. All of these techniques need ink-like stable dispersions comprising functionalized nanomaterials dispersed in a convenient solvent. Drop-casting offers a cost efficient production of photovoltaic semiconductor thin films. Nevertheless, depending on the

• deposited on glass substrates via drop-casting technique without annealing. For absorbance characterization, a liquid sample processed by the size-separation technique was analyzed and for Raman measurements, the same sample but deposited by dripping on glass substrate was studied. TEM characterization

Extracellular biosynthesis of gadolinium oxide (Gd₂O₃) nanoparticles, their biodistribution and bioconjugation with the chemically modified anticancer drug taxol

• Shadab Ali Khan,
• Sanjay Gambhir and
• Absar Ahmad

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 249–257, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.27

• measurement was carried out on a Shimadzu dual-beam spectrophotometer (model UV-1601 PC) operated at a resolution of 1 nm. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) TEM analyses of gadolinium oxide nanoparticles were carried out on a JEOL model 1200 EX operated at 80 kV. Samples were prepared by drop-casting the

• drop-casting the particles (suspended in water) on carbon coated copper grid. The selected area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern analysis was carried out on the same grid. X-ray diffraction (XRD) X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements of biosynthesized Gd2O3 nanoparticles were carried out by coating

Platinum nanoparticles from size adjusted functional colloidal particles generated by a seeded emulsion polymerization process

• Nicolas Vogel,
• Ulrich Ziener,
• Achim Manzke,
• Alfred Plettl,
• Paul Ziemann,
• Johannes Biskupek,
• Clemens K. Weiss and
• Katharina Landfester

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 459–472, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.50

• ) Addition of ethanol to the water phase. c) Addition of methanol to the continuous water phase. A non-conventional lithographic process is used to produce arrays of Pt NPs from platinum-acetylacetonate containing polymer particles on top of a Si wafer. a) Colloidal monolayer formed by drop casting of seeded

Fabrication and spectroscopic studies on highly luminescent CdSe/CdS nanorod polymer composites

• Jana Bomm,
• Andreas Büchtemann,
• Angela Fiore,
• Liberato Manna,
• James H. Nelson,
• Diana Hill and
• Wilfried G. J. H. M. van Sark

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 94–100, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.11

• free drop-casting process. Core/shell NRs were chosen as they exhibit higher stability against photooxidation and chemical attack by radicals [2][9]. The band-gap within a type-I core/shell nanocrystal gradually increases from the inside to the outside [2][10]. In our first method, where radicals are

• amount of cross-linker either flexible (<20 wt % EGDM) or rigid nanocomposites could be fabricated. In our second method we fabricated thin polymer films using a radical free drop-casting process. Cellulose triacetate (CTA) was chosen as polymer because of its high transparency, hydrophobicity and