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Conjugated photothermal materials and structure design for solar steam generation

  • Chia-Yang Lin and
  • Tsuyoshi Michinobu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 454–466, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.36

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  • hydrophilic/hydrophobic properties. Furthermore, conjugated hybrid materials exhibit excellent performance because of the synergistic effects of different components of the hybrid materials. The overall structural design concept of the absorbers was also described. The Janus structure reduces the heat loss to
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Published 04 Apr 2023

Molecular nanoarchitectonics: unification of nanotechnology and molecular/materials science

  • Katsuhiko Ariga

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 434–453, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.35

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  • cove-shaped two-dimensional graphene nanoribbon networks by interconnecting one-dimensional self-assembled graphene nanoribbons on a Au(111) surface [121]. The structure of the two-dimensional graphene nanoribbon network consists of hybrid junctions of graphene nanoribbons of various widths, exhibiting
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Published 03 Apr 2023

Evaluation of electrosynthesized reduced graphene oxide–Ni/Fe/Co-based (oxy)hydroxide catalysts towards the oxygen evolution reaction

  • Karolina Cysewska,
  • Marcin Łapiński,
  • Marcin Zając,
  • Jakub Karczewski,
  • Piotr Jasiński and
  • Sebastian Molin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 420–433, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.34

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  • friendly nature [11]. Even though transition-metal-based catalysts still suffer from low surface areas [12], dissolution and aggregation of metallic phase and metal oxides during the active OER process occurs [13]. Hence, Ni-, Fe- and/or Co-based catalysts have been synthesized as hybrid catalysts with
  • graphene material with Ni-, Fe- and/or Co-based oxides/hydroxides with high chemical reactivity provides both an effective electron pathway through the catalyst [20] and high specific surface area [21], which is desirable for the OER process [13]. The overall electrocatalytic performance of the hybrid
  • electrode can also be improved by choosing a conductive and/or high surface area substrate, such as porous nickel foam [22][23]. In the literature, some research has been performed to evaluate the OER electrocatalytic performance of hybrid materials of Ni-, Fe- and/or Co-based oxides/(oxy)hydroxides and Gr
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Published 29 Mar 2023

Plasmonic nanotechnology for photothermal applications – an evaluation

  • A. R. Indhu,
  • L. Keerthana and
  • Gnanaprakash Dharmalingam

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 380–419, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.33

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Quercetin- and caffeic acid-functionalized chitosan-capped colloidal silver nanoparticles: one-pot synthesis, characterization, and anticancer and antibacterial activities

  • Akif Hakan Kurt,
  • Elif Berna Olutas,
  • Fatma Avcioglu,
  • Hamza Karakuş,
  • Mehmet Ali Sungur,
  • Cansu Kara Oztabag and
  • Muhammet Yıldırım

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 362–376, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.31

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  • unique properties, low cost, and low cytotoxicity [37][38][39]. Hybrid structures containing silver played an important role in the development of strong antibacterial agents and do not cause drug resistance problems due to their broad-spectrum antibacterial action [40]. These features led to a wide
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Published 20 Mar 2023

Polymer nanoparticles from low-energy nanoemulsions for biomedical applications

  • Santiago Grijalvo and
  • Carlos Rodriguez-Abreu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 339–350, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.29

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  • hydrodynamic droplet diameter of ca. 230 nm for Kolliphor® EL and ca. 125 nm for Polysorbate 80, whereas the size of the resulting hybrid nanoparticles was ca. 40 and 20 nm, respectively, as determined from TEM. The magnetic loading reached up to ca. 20 wt %, and therefore the hybrids could be useful for
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Published 13 Mar 2023

Bismuth-based nanostructured photocatalysts for the remediation of antibiotics and organic dyes

  • Akeem Adeyemi Oladipo and
  • Faisal Suleiman Mustafa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 291–321, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.26

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  • , nanometre-sized photocatalysts based on bismuth have recently been investigated and evaluated, because the majority of bismuth-based photocatalysts have a bandgap below 3.0 eV, making them usable in visible light. Additionally, their electrical structure produces a valence band with hybrid O 2p and Bi 6s
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Published 03 Mar 2023

Recent progress in cancer cell membrane-based nanoparticles for biomedical applications

  • Qixiong Lin,
  • Yueyou Peng,
  • Yanyan Wen,
  • Xiaoqiong Li,
  • Donglian Du,
  • Weibin Dai,
  • Wei Tian and
  • Yanfeng Meng

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 262–279, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.24

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  • accumulation in the tumor tissue (Figure 7E,F) [83]. 5.2 Photoacoustic imaging Ultrasonography is a common noninvasive clinical real-time imaging technique of with low cost, and ease of operation. Based on the photoacoustic (PA) effect, a hybrid imaging modality of PA imaging has been derived, which has shown
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Published 27 Feb 2023

Nanotechnology – a robust tool for fighting the challenges of drug resistance in non-small cell lung cancer

  • Filip Gorachinov,
  • Fatima Mraiche,
  • Diala Alhaj Moustafa,
  • Ola Hishari,
  • Yomna Ismail,
  • Jensa Joseph,
  • Maja Simonoska Crcarevska,
  • Marija Glavas Dodov,
  • Nikola Geskovski and
  • Katerina Goracinova

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 240–261, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.23

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  • copolymer core–shell NPs, (ii) polymer–polypeptide hybrid core–shell NPs, and (iii) polymer–lipid hybrid core–shell NPs additionally decorated with ligands for overexpressed receptors on cancer cells [92]. Traditionally selected overexpressed cancer cell surface markers for the active targeting of NPs
  • erlotinib, coated with a phospholipid layer, with anchors composed of hyaluronic acid–adipic acid hydralazide–poly(ethylene glycol) (HA-ADH-PEG). Hyaluronic acid-decorated lipid polymer hybrid nanoparticles (LPH NPs) specifically target overexpressed CD44 at the NSCLC cells. In the acidic tumor environment
  • demonstrate specific homologous targeting to cancer cells [131]. In addition, hybrid cell membrane biomimetic shells composed of fused red blood cell membrane and homotypic cancer membrane materials may significantly contribute to personalized nanomedicine design for targeting various tumors [132]. One
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Published 22 Feb 2023

Spin dynamics in superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator hybrid structures with precessing magnetization

  • Yaroslav V. Turkin and
  • Nataliya Pugach

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 233–239, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.22

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  • film S that is in contact with a ferromagnetic insulator layer FI. Spin current and induced magnetization are calculated not only at the interface of the S/FI hybrid structure, but also inside the superconducting film. The new and interesting predicted effect is the frequency dependence of the induced
  • ; Introduction Creation and manipulation of spin flows in superconducting hybrid systems have become a very active research area during the last decade because of the possibility to create spin supercurrents with much larger relaxation lengths and spin lifetimes [1]. The creation of persistent spin currents in
  • ways of spin current injection into a superconductor, for example, the spin Hall effect [5], the spin Seebek effect [6], and ferromagnetic resonance spin pumping [7][8]. The spin pumping technique in hybrid structures consisting of a ferromagnetic insulator and a superconductor is considered to be the
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Published 21 Feb 2023

Cyclodextrins as eminent constituents in nanoarchitectonics for drug delivery systems

  • Makoto Komiyama

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 218–232, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.21

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  • with adamantane and bound to these nanoparticles through non-covalent host–guest interactions between β-CyD and adamantane. When the composite entered human cells, the RNA/DNA hybrid was digested by ribonuclease H (an intracellular ribonuclease that hydrolyzes the RNA in the RNA/DNA heteroduplex) to
  • influenza hemagglutinin peptide HA (for endosomal escape) by inclusion complex formation of β-CyD with adamantane. In human cells, the RNA/DNA hybrid was digested by intracellular ribonuclease H to release the antisense DNA. Furthermore, the linker is divided into three portions through the cleavage of two
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Published 09 Feb 2023

Intermodal coupling spectroscopy of mechanical modes in microcantilevers

  • Ioan Ignat,
  • Bernhard Schuster,
  • Jonas Hafner,
  • MinHee Kwon,
  • Daniel Platz and
  • Ulrich Schmid

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 123–132, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.13

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  • multitonal responses, from which the force is reconstructed. In this paper, we are building towards a hybrid multifrequency approach different from the ones described above. The on-resonance measurement would follow frequency-modulated AFM or bimodal AFM while being assisted by a new off-resonance excitation
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Published 19 Jan 2023

Antimicrobial and mechanical properties of functionalized textile by nanoarchitectured photoinduced Ag@polymer coating

  • Jessica Plé,
  • Marine Dabert,
  • Helene Lecoq,
  • Sophie Hellé,
  • Lydie Ploux and
  • Lavinia Balan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 95–109, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.11

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  • been carried out on the coating of unaltered textile substrates with hybrid MNP-polymer films for antimicrobial applications. In a previous work [47][48], we presented an innovative one-pot, one-step photoinduced synthesis to generate silver and gold-polymer nanofilms on a glass substrate. The kinetic
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Published 12 Jan 2023

Combining physical vapor deposition structuration with dealloying for the creation of a highly efficient SERS platform

  • Adrien Chauvin,
  • Walter Puglisi,
  • Damien Thiry,
  • Cristina Satriano,
  • Rony Snyders and
  • Carla Bittencourt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 83–94, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.10

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  • Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels, Belgium Nano Hybrid BioInterfaces Lab (NHBIL), Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, viale Andrea Doria, 6, 95125 Catania, Italy Materia Nova Research Center, 3 avenue Nicolas Copernic, 7000 Mons, Belgium 10.3762/bjnano.14.10 Abstract
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Published 11 Jan 2023

Frontiers of nanoelectronics: intrinsic Josephson effect and prospects of superconducting spintronics

  • Anatolie S. Sidorenko,
  • Horst Hahn and
  • Vladimir Krasnov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 79–82, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.9

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  • (ANN) is a recent important development. The main goal of this thematic issue is to highlight new research done in the field of hybrid nanostructures, including various elements using the Josephson effect and their applications in quantum electronics, spintronics, and high-frequency electronics. The
  • -electron bolometers, with photon NEP of 1.1 × 10−16 W/Hz(1/2), achieved by replacing one of two single superconductor–insulator–normal (SIN) tunnel junctions with a single superconductor–normal (SN) contact [21]. Proposing a new type of cold electron bolometers with traps and hybrid superconducting
  • interferometer as an adiabatic neural cell of a perceptron artificial neural network in the quantum regime (a hybrid system whose configuration is dynamically adjusted by a quantum co-processor) [23]. - In several articles of the volume, new phenomena are predicted and investigated for promising spintronics
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Published 10 Jan 2023

Cooper pair splitting controlled by a temperature gradient

  • Dmitry S. Golubev and
  • Andrei D. Zaikin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 61–67, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.7

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  • for developing quantum communication technologies. One way to identify Cooper pair splitting is to analyze long-range cross correlations of fluctuating currents in three-terminal hybrid normal–superconducting–normal nanostructures. Here, we theoretically investigate non-trivial behavior of cross
  • -correlated non-local shot noise in the presence of a temperature gradient. We suggest that applying a temperature gradient may serve as an extra tool to control the phenomenon of Cooper pair splitting. Keywords: Cooper pair splitting; entanglement; quantum shot noise; superconducting hybrid nanostructures
  • reflection (CAR): A Cooper pair may split into two electrons [2] (see Figure 1a), thereby generating pairs of entangled electrons in different metallic electrodes [3]. This phenomenon and its effect on electron transport in normal metal–superconductor–normal metal (NSN) hybrid structures were intensively
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Published 09 Jan 2023

Gap-directed chemical lift-off lithographic nanoarchitectonics for arbitrary sub-micrometer patterning

  • Chang-Ming Wang,
  • Hong-Sheng Chan,
  • Chia-Li Liao,
  • Che-Wei Chang and
  • Wei-Ssu Liao

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 34–44, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.4

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  • be used to produce even smaller features with arbitrary shapes, but the serial nature of these practices forbids their suitableness for high volume productions [3][4]. Soft lithographic techniques are hybrid approaches which have been extensively studied as alternatives to achieve precise patterning
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Published 04 Jan 2023

In search of cytotoxic selectivity on cancer cells with biogenically synthesized Ag/AgCl nanoparticles

  • Mitzi J. Ramírez-Hernández,
  • Mario Valera-Zaragoza,
  • Omar Viñas-Bravo,
  • Ariana A. Huerta-Heredia,
  • Miguel A. Peña-Rico,
  • Erick A. Juarez-Arellano,
  • David Paniagua-Vega,
  • Eduardo Ramírez-Vargas and
  • Saúl Sánchez-Valdes

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1505–1519, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.124

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  • between cancer cells and healthy cells can be achieved. Experimental Materials MD2 hybrid pineapples (family: Bromeliaceae, genus: Ananas Mill, 1754, species: comosus (L.) Merr., 1917) were obtained from crops in the Tuxtepec region of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Silver nitrate (CAS 7761-88-8, ACS
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Published 13 Dec 2022

Density of states in the presence of spin-dependent scattering in SF bilayers: a numerical and analytical approach

  • Tairzhan Karabassov,
  • Valeriia D. Pashkovskaia,
  • Nikita A. Parkhomenko,
  • Anastasia V. Guravova,
  • Elena A. Kazakova,
  • Boris G. Lvov,
  • Alexander A. Golubov and
  • Andrey S. Vasenko

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1418–1431, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.117

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  • behavior of DOS dependencies on magnetic and spin–orbit scattering times is discussed. Keywords: density of states; Josephson junctions; proximity effect; superconductivity; superconductor/ferromagnet hybrid nanostructures; Introduction It is well-known that superconductivity can be induced in a non
  • -superconducting metal in hybrid structures due to the proximity effect [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. For instance, in NS bilayers (where N denotes a normal metal and S denotes a superconductor), the superconducting correlations penetrate into the normal metal layer over a characteristic decay length ξn = where Dn is
  • ][10][11]. The scientific community has been examining the proximity effect in SF hybrid structures already for a long while. It has been found that the oscillatory behavior of the superconducting wave function can lead to various interesting phenomena that can be observed experimentally [1][2]. For
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Recent trends in Bi-based nanomaterials: challenges, fabrication, enhancement techniques, and environmental applications

  • Vishal Dutta,
  • Ankush Chauhan,
  • Ritesh Verma,
  • C. Gopalkrishnan and
  • Van-Huy Nguyen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1316–1336, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.109

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  • thanks to the significant charge carrier dispersion provided by hybrid orbitals involving the Bi 6s orbital, as seen in Figure 2. Photoinduced electron–hole separation and charge carrier transfer in Bi-based materials are facilitated by a unique layered structure that creates an IEF. A magnetic field is
  • increase in the overlap between Bi 6s and O 2p orbitals, a reduced charge transfer route, and strange floating features. In another approach, Huang et al. reported a one-step hydrothermal synthesis of a BiIO4/Bi2MoO6 hybrid photocatalyst for photodegradation of RhB dye [56]. Under visible-light irradiation
  • (λ > 420 nm), photoelectrochemical studies demonstrated that the RhB photodegradation effectiveness and photocurrent density of the BiIO4/Bi2MoO6 hybrid composite is much higher than that of the pure components. Because of the successful construction of the BiIO4/Bi2MoO6 hybrid, the photocatalytic
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Role of titanium and organic precursors in molecular layer deposition of “titanicone” hybrid materials

  • Arbresha Muriqi and
  • Michael Nolan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1240–1255, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.103

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  • Arbresha Muriqi Michael Nolan Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Lee Maltings, T12 R5CP Cork, Ireland 10.3762/bjnano.13.103 Abstract The development of hybrid inorganic–organic films with well-controlled properties is important for many applications. Molecular layer deposition
  • (MLD) allows the deposition of these hybrid films using sequential, self-limiting reactions, similar to atomic layer deposition (ALD). In this paper, we use first principles density functional theory (DFT) to investigate the growth mechanism of titanium-containing hybrid organic–inorganic MLD films
  • organic–inorganic hybrid films for applications in several technological application areas, including packaging/encapsulation, electronics, batteries and biomedical applications [1][2][3][4]. MLD is very similar to the widely used atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique, which involves the fabrication of
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Microneedle-based ocular drug delivery systems – recent advances and challenges

  • Piotr Gadziński,
  • Anna Froelich,
  • Monika Wojtyłko,
  • Antoni Białek,
  • Julia Krysztofiak and
  • Tomasz Osmałek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1167–1184, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.98

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  • . S. Thakur, “Long-acting nanoparticle-loaded bilayer microneedles for protein delivery to the posterior segment of the eye“, pages 306-318, Copyright (2021), with permission from Elsevier. This content is not subject to CC BY 4.0. The hybrid detachable microneedle developed by Lee et al. Figure 9 was
  • adapted from [183], Acta Biomaterialia, vol. 80, by K. Lee; H. B. Song; W. Cho; J. H. Kim; J. H. Kim; W. H. Ryu, “Intracorneal injection of a detachable hybrid microneedle for sustained drug delivery“, pages 48-57, Copyright (2018), with permission from Elsevier. This content is not subject to CC BY 4.0
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Published 24 Oct 2022

Recent advances in green carbon dots (2015–2022): synthesis, metal ion sensing, and biological applications

  • Aisha Kanwal,
  • Naheed Bibi,
  • Sajjad Hyder,
  • Arif Muhammad,
  • Hao Ren,
  • Jiangtao Liu and
  • Zhongli Lei

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1068–1107, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.93

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  • different carbonization temperatures (200 and 450 °C) were used to prepare CDs, namely C-1 and C-2, respectively, via pyrolysis. To examine the interaction of functional groups present on the CDs with water vapor, theoretical modeling was also carried out by using the DFT-based B3LYP hybrid functional at 6
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Biomimetic chitosan with biocomposite nanomaterials for bone tissue repair and regeneration

  • Se-Kwon Kim,
  • Sesha Subramanian Murugan,
  • Pandurang Appana Dalavi,
  • Sebanti Gupta,
  • Sukumaran Anil,
  • Gi Hun Seong and
  • Jayachandran Venkatesan

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1051–1067, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.92

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  • research due to its intrinsic antimicrobial properties. Xie et al. (2019) developed AgNPs composites containing polydopamine–hydroxyapatite–chitosan by adding AgNPs to hybrid materials, which significantly reduced microbial infection in the implanted place [109]. Polydopamine and chitosan play an important
  • tensile strength of ≈7.05 MPa. According to the findings in vitro, the combination of scaffolds promotes fast cell-to-cell contact, which boosts the regeneration impact on pre-osteoblast (MC3T3-E1) cell proliferation, growth, and differentiation [94]. The impact of a hybrid nanocomposite of poly(3
  • the scaffold was tested using simulated bodily fluids, and mineral formation (calcium and phosphorous) on the surface was analysed using SEM [58]. To achieve biofunctionality, a scaffold composed of carbon nanotubes and chitosan was fabricated via electrophoretic deposition. These hybrid composites
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Analytical and numerical design of a hybrid Fabry–Perot plano-concave microcavity for hexagonal boron nitride

  • Felipe Ortiz-Huerta and
  • Karina Garay-Palmett

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1030–1037, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.90

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  • -defined spatio-temporal mode along with an accessible numerical aperture (NA) to increase the light extraction efficiency that is required for effective coupling into optical waveguides. Based on a previously developed experimental approach to fabricate hybrid Fabry–Perot microcavities (Ortiz-Huerta et al
  • . Opt. Express 2018, 26, 33245), we managed to find analytical and finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) values for the, experimentally achievable, geometrical parameters of a hybrid plano-concave microcavity that enhances the spontaneous emission (i.e., Purcell enhancement) of color centers in two
  • a SPE (i.e., in-plane dipole) hosted by a 2D hBN layer inside the hybrid plano-concave microcavity. Keywords: Fabry–Perot; hBN; microcavities; plano-concave; polymers; Introduction Pure and indistinguishable SPEs are key components needed for their application in upcoming quantum technologies [1
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