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Search for "sustainability" in Full Text gives 56 result(s) in Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology.

Nanocuration workflows: Establishing best practices for identifying, inputting, and sharing data to inform decisions on nanomaterials

  • Christina M. Powers,
  • Karmann A. Mills,
  • Stephanie A. Morris,
  • Fred Klaessig,
  • Sharon Gaheen,
  • Nastassja Lewinski and
  • Christine Ogilvie Hendren

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1860–1871, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.189

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  • sufficient CDEs might be merged into common resources to maximize effectiveness and sustainability. Conclusion The curation workflow provides a means not only to share data through nanoinformatics, but also to communicate underlying assumptions about the data within and between organizations. The development
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Published 04 Sep 2015

Analysis of soil bacteria susceptibility to manufactured nanoparticles via data visualization

  • Rong Liu,
  • Yuan Ge,
  • Patricia A. Holden and
  • Yoram Cohen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1635–1651, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.166

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  • Rong Liu Yuan Ge Patricia A. Holden Yoram Cohen Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, University of California, United States Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, United States Earth Research Institute, University of California
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Published 28 Jul 2015

Review of nanostructured devices for thermoelectric applications

  • Giovanni Pennelli

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1268–1284, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.141

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  • properties on one side and material availability, sustainability, technological feasibility on the other side. The most important bottom-up and top-down nanofabrication techniques for large area silicon nanowire arrays, to be used for high efficiency thermoelectric devices, will be presented and discussed
  • , sustainability and technological aspects [7] on the other hand. In this respect, silicon is the second most abundant element on the surface of Earth (after oxygen), it is a very sustainable and biocompatible material. Furthermore, due to its pervasiveness in the electronic market, silicon is one of the best
  • ][36][37] skutterudites were found with Z factors of about 2 × 10−3 K−1, for temperatures up to 800 K. Skutterudites are, in general, based on elements that are not very rare, however sustainability problems could arise from the presence of cobalt. A big research effort has been devoted to the
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Published 14 Aug 2014

Photocatalysis

  • Rong Xu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1071–1072, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.119

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  • age. Photocatalysis, a topic of many decades of attention, has recently received renewed and more intense interest in developing innovative solutions towards achieving our sustainability goal. Though immensely inspired by natural photosynthesis, the research on artificial photosynthesis is still in
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Published 16 Jul 2014

Thermal stability and reduction of iron oxide nanowires at moderate temperatures

  • Annalisa Paolone,
  • Marco Angelucci,
  • Stefania Panero,
  • Maria Grazia Betti and
  • Carlo Mariani

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 323–328, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.36

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  • ][20][21][22][23][24]. Within this context, iron oxide systems are convenient materials because of their low cost and environmental sustainability. One of the important issues in Li-ion batteries is the chemical and thermal stability of the components. Fe2O3 presents a definite chemical phase (Fe3
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Published 19 Mar 2014

Modeling and optimization of atomic layer deposition processes on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes

  • Nuri Yazdani,
  • Vipin Chawla,
  • Eve Edwards,
  • Vanessa Wood,
  • Hyung Gyu Park and
  • Ivo Utke

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 234–244, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.25

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  • Nuri Yazdani Vipin Chawla Eve Edwards Vanessa Wood Hyung Gyu Park Ivo Utke Nanoscience for Energy Technology and Sustainability, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich CH-8092, Switzerland Laboratory for Nanoelectronics, Department of Information Technology and
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Published 05 Mar 2014
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