The impact of the confinement of reactants on the metal distribution in bimetallic nanoparticles synthesized in reverse micelles

• Concha Tojo,
• Elena González and
• Nuria Vila-Romeu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1966–1979, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.206

• with three different sets of micelles randomly distributed: micelles carrying Au salt (M-Au), Pt salt (M-Pt) and reducing agent (M-R). The volume fraction occupied by micelles is set at φ = 10%. Each micelle can act as a nanoreactor during nanoparticle synthesis. Thus, although initially each

Biocompatibility of cerium dioxide and silicon dioxide nanoparticles with endothelial cells

• Claudia Strobel,
• Martin Förster and
• Ingrid Hilger

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1795–1807, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.190

• funded by the German Research Foundation, project SPP1313, cluster NPBIOMEM, HI-698/11-2. We sincerely thank Dr. R. Herrmann of the Department of Physics, University of Augsburg for the nanoparticle synthesis and for performing the TEM measurements. The technical assistance of J. Göring is gratefully

One pot synthesis of silver nanoparticles using a cyclodextrin containing polymer as reductant and stabilizer

• Arkadius Maciollek and
• Helmut Ritter

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 380–385, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.44

• environmental and biological risky reducing agents and solvents such as sodium borohydride, hydrazine or dimethylformamide. Consequently, the interest in a green nanoparticle synthesis using natural reducing agents like saccharides or cyclodextrin (CD) in environmentally benign solvents increased [9][10][11][12

Formation of SiC nanoparticles in an atmospheric microwave plasma

• Martin Vennekamp,
• Ingolf Bauer,
• Matthias Groh,
• Evgeni Sperling,
• Susanne Ueberlein,
• Maksym Myndyk,
• Gerrit Mäder and
• Stefan Kaskel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 665–673, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.71

• nanoparticle synthesis is that the electrons escaping from the plasma zone are attached to surfaces in contact with the plasma, causing a negative charge at the plasma boundary and a positive bulk plasma potential. A negative charge on the nanoparticle surface suppresses their agglomeration [9][21], making the

• experimental setup [11]. In that experimental work, ten single experiments were presented and the qualitative correlations of the particle size with the process parameters were the same as in the investigation on ZnO. Nevertheless, in the case of the Si nanoparticle synthesis, an approximately five-times