Revealing thermal effects in the electronic transport through irradiated atomic metal point contacts

• Bastian Kopp,
• Zhiwei Yi,
• Daniel Benner,
• Fang-Qing Xie,
• Christian Obermair,
• Thomas Schimmel,
• Johannes Boneberg,
• Paul Leiderer and
• Elke Scheer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 703–711, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.80

• generator. After being developed in a mixture of MIBK:IPA (1:3), the patterned samples were mounted in an electron-beam evaporator under high vacuum (10−6 mbar) and metal (Au or Pt) was deposited at a rate of 1 Å/s. The metal thickness for the electrodes to be closed by electrochemistry was in the range of

Distribution of functional groups in periodic mesoporous organosilica materials studied by small-angle neutron scattering with in situ adsorption of nitrogen

• Monir Sharifi,
• Dirk Wallacher and
• Michael Wark

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 428–437, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.49

• Monir Sharifi Dirk Wallacher Michael Wark Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Callinstr. 3A, D-30167 Hannover, Germany Laboratory of Industrial Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitaetsstr. 150, D-44801 Bochum, Germany Berlin Neutron Scattering

• -Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany) for technical support during the SANS measurements and Prof. Jürgen Caro (Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany) for general support.

Parallel- and serial-contact electrochemical metallization of monolayer nanopatterns: A versatile synthetic tool en route to bottom-up assembly of electric nanocircuits

• Jonathan Berson,
• Assaf Zeira,
• Rivka Maoz and
• Jacob Sagiv

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 134–143, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.14

• –solution interface by ion migration to the electrode rather than by electron transfer to hydrated ions in solution. Keywords: AFM (SFM); bipolar electrochemistry; electrochemical metal deposition; monolayer patterning; nanolithography; self-assembled organosilane monolayers; Introduction The quest for a

Electron-beam patterned self-assembled monolayers as templates for Cu electrodeposition and lift-off

• Zhe She,
• Andrea DiFalco,
• Georg Hähner and
• Manfred Buck

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 101–113, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.11

• combination of patterned SAMs and electrochemistry offers a flexible approach for the generation of metal structures. While structured SAMs exhibiting electrochemical contrast can be made from two different types of molecules that differ in their blocking properties [15], electron-induced modification of a

• , and exposures varied between 40 and 1000 mC/cm2. Patterned SAMs were reimmersed in MBP0 solution at room temperature for 8 h. Electrochemistry: Using an Eco Chemie AUTOLAB PGSTAT128N and NOVA 1.4 software, the electrochemical experiments were performed in a home-built cell with a standard three

The atomic force microscope as a mechano–electrochemical pen

• Christian Obermair,
• Andreas Wagner and
• Thomas Schimmel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 659–664, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.70

• microscopy; deposition; electrochemistry; nanoelectronics; nanofabrication; nanolithography; nanotechnology; NEMS and MEMS; scanning probe lithography; Introduction The controlled, patterned, electrochemical deposition of metals at predefined positions on the nanometer scale is of great interest for

• diameter, with Cu reference and counter electrodes (copper wires of 0.5 mm diameter, Goodfellow) and a glass substrate with an evaporated gold film as the working electrode. The electrochemistry was controlled by a home-built, low-noise potentiostat, which was controlled by a computer. Cyclic voltammograms

How to remove the influence of trace water from the absorption spectra of SWNTs dispersed in ionic liquids

• Juan Yang,
• Daqi Zhang and
• Yan Li

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 653–658, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.69

• electrochemistry [4][5], and chemical reactions and separations [6][7][8][9]. In 2003, Fukushima et al. [10] found that by mixing together and mechanically grinding the single-walled carbon nanotubes with imidazolium-based ILs, a thermally stable bucky gel can be formed with SWNTs untangled from the heavily

Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopic imaging of patterned thiol monolayers

• Johannes Stadler,
• Thomas Schmid,
• Lothar Opilik,
• Phillip Kuhn,
• Petra S. Dittrich and
• Renato Zenobi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 509–515, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.55

• we chose 2- and 4-mercaptopyridine (2-PySH and 4-PySH), which have been used to modify electrode surfaces in protein electrochemistry [15]. In a non-destructive experiment, the spectral signature of both isomers was employed to map their distribution on the sample surface using TERS in a gap mode