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Efficient electron-induced removal of oxalate ions and formation of copper nanoparticles from copper(II) oxalate precursor layers

  • Kai Rückriem,
  • Sarah Grotheer,
  • Henning Vieker,
  • Paul Penner,
  • André Beyer,
  • Armin Gölzhäuser and
  • Petra Swiderek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 852–861, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.77

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  • precursor distribution on the surface was achieved by using liquid precursor materials, i.e., molten salts [5] or solutions of the precursors [6][7][8]. The latter processes are more demanding in terms of instrumentation as they require heating stages [5] or liquid cells [6][7][8], respectively. Furthermore
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Published 13 Jun 2016

Facile synthesis of water-soluble carbon nano-onions under alkaline conditions

  • Gaber Hashem Gaber Ahmed,
  • Rosana Badía Laíño,
  • Josefa Angela García Calzón and
  • Marta Elena Díaz García

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 758–766, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.67

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  • H2SO4 (n = 1.33) with a quantum yield of 0.54 at λex = 350 nm was used as a reference. C-dots and C-onions were dissolved in Milli-Q water (n = 1.33). Instrumentation HRTEM (JEOL JEM-2100F, 200 kV) was used to determine the size and morphology of the synthesized carbon materials. Powder X-ray
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Published 27 May 2016

Novel roles for well-known players: from tobacco mosaic virus pests to enzymatically active assemblies

  • Claudia Koch,
  • Fabian J. Eber,
  • Carlos Azucena,
  • Alexander Förste,
  • Stefan Walheim,
  • Thomas Schimmel,
  • Alexander M. Bittner,
  • Holger Jeske,
  • Hartmut Gliemann,
  • Sabine Eiben,
  • Fania C. Geiger and
  • Christina Wege

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 613–629, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.54

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  • has been growing enormously since then [170][171], which parallels the investigation of viral biotemplates (see above). The main emerging application area is medical diagnostics, namely “point-of-care” on-site analytics circumventing the need for expensive instrumentation [172], with further uses
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Published 25 Apr 2016
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  • method and instrumentation, almost arriving at the conclusion that it is nearly impossible to carry out quantitatively accurate measurements of viscoelasticity with AFM, unless one assumes that the sample follows the simplest continuum behaviors. For the most part, the development of new AFM imaging and
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Published 15 Apr 2016

Charge and heat transport in soft nanosystems in the presence of time-dependent perturbations

  • Alberto Nocera,
  • Carmine Antonio Perroni,
  • Vincenzo Marigliano Ramaglia and
  • Vittorio Cataudella

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 439–464, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.39

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Published 18 Mar 2016

Efficiency improvement in the cantilever photothermal excitation method using a photothermal conversion layer

  • Natsumi Inada,
  • Hitoshi Asakawa,
  • Taiki Kobayashi and
  • Takeshi Fukuma

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 409–417, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.36

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  • due to its great potential for many applications. For example, recent advancements in instrumentation of dynamic-mode AFM have enabled atomic-resolution imaging not only in vacuum [2][3][4] but also in liquid [5][6]. In addition, other advanced AFM techniques such as high-speed AFM [7][8][9] and
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Published 10 Mar 2016

Molecular machines and devices

  • Jan van Ruitenbeek

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 310–311, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.29

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  • interesting combination of theoretical questions, dedicated instrumentation development, synthetic chemistry, and experimental observations. Concepts for electrically actuated, molecular scale motion are discussed in many of the contributions, where switches, pumps, or motors are considered, and first
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Published 01 Mar 2016

High-bandwidth multimode self-sensing in bimodal atomic force microscopy

  • Michael G. Ruppert and
  • S. O. Reza Moheimani

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 284–295, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.26

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  • enables the omission of the commonly used piezoelectric stack actuator and optical beam deflection sensor, alleviating limitations due to distorted frequency responses and instrumentation cost, respectively. The proposed method benefits from a more than two orders of magnitude increase in deflection to
  • excitation of higher order eigenmodes of a microcantilever [1][2][3] and as such, present a number of practical challenges to cantilever instrumentation. Both high-bandwidth cantilever actuation and deflection sensing are necessary, ideally without distorting the frequency response of the cantilever and
  • elimination of the piezoelectric base actuator and the OBD sensor from the cantilever instrumentation setup, avoiding tedious laser alignment and distorted frequency responses. In this contribution, we demonstrate that the self-sensing method can be extended to MF-AFM techniques such as bimodal imaging by
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Published 24 Feb 2016

Single-molecule magnet behavior in 2,2’-bipyrimidine-bridged dilanthanide complexes

  • Wen Yu,
  • Frank Schramm,
  • Eufemio Moreno Pineda,
  • Yanhua Lan,
  • Olaf Fuhr,
  • Jinjie Chen,
  • Hironari Isshiki,
  • Wolfgang Wernsdorfer,
  • Wulf Wulfhekel and
  • Mario Ruben

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 126–137, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.15

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  • −17 °C and by layering EtOH onto a CHCl3 solution of 1, 4 and 5 at room temperature, respectively. Results of elemental analyses and isolated yields are given in Table 1. Physical measurements and instrumentation IR transmission measurements of pressed KBr pellets were recorded at room temperature
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Published 28 Jan 2016

Single pyrimidine discrimination during voltage-driven translocation of osmylated oligodeoxynucleotides via the α-hemolysin nanopore

  • Yun Ding and
  • Anastassia Kanavarioti

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 91–101, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.11

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  • composition. Part B, Chemicals, materials and instrumentation for nanopore measurements: Nanopore experiments were conducted with 10 μM DNA in 1.0 M KCl, 10 mM potassium phosphate buffer at pH 7.4 and at 22 ± 1 °C, as described in detail in [14], and summarized here. WT α-hemolysin was purchased from List
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Published 22 Jan 2016

Development of a novel nanoindentation technique by utilizing a dual-probe AFM system

  • Eyup Cinar,
  • Ferat Sahin and
  • Dalia Yablon

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2015–2027, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.205

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  • Eyup Cinar Ferat Sahin Dalia Yablon Microsystems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA SurfaceChar LLC., Sharon, MA, USA 10.3762/bjnano.6.205 Abstract A novel instrumentation approach to
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Published 12 Oct 2015

The convenient preparation of stable aryl-coated zerovalent iron nanoparticles

  • Olga A. Guselnikova,
  • Andrey I. Galanov,
  • Anton K. Gutakovskii and
  • Pavel S. Postnikov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1192–1198, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.121

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  • NPs with a wide range of attached organic functional groups allows for the design of contrast agents for theranostic applications. Experimental Materials and instrumentation tert-Butyl nitrite, 4-toluenesulfonic acid (p-TsOH), 4-nitroaniline, iron trichloride hexahydrate (FeCl3∙6H2O), and sodium
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Published 21 May 2015

Tattoo ink nanoparticles in skin tissue and fibroblasts

  • Colin A. Grant,
  • Peter C. Twigg,
  • Richard Baker and
  • Desmond J. Tobin

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1183–1191, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.120

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  • ]. With highly specialised instrumentation and techniques, it is even possible to resolve molecular bonds [16][17]. Details of AFM operation and capabilities can be found elsewhere [18][19]. However, in brief, the AFM instrument involves a sharp probe at the end of a cantilever interacting with a surface
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Published 20 May 2015

Scanning reflection ion microscopy in a helium ion microscope

  • Yuri V. Petrov and
  • Oleg F. Vyvenko

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1125–1137, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.114

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  • Abstract Reflection ion microscopy (RIM) is a technique that uses a low angle of incidence and scattered ions to form an image of the specimen surface. This paper reports on the development of the instrumentation and the analysis of the capabilities and limitations of the scanning RIM in a helium ion
  • spectrometry [32][33], and ionoluminescence [34][35] were developed. In this paper we report on the development of the instrumentation and the analysis of the capabilities and limitations of scanning reflection ion microscopy (RIM) in a helium ion microscope. In the experimental part of our work we describe a
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Published 07 May 2015

Charge carrier mobility and electronic properties of Al(Op)3: impact of excimer formation

  • Andrea Magri,
  • Pascal Friederich,
  • Bernhard Schäfer,
  • Valeria Fattori,
  • Xiangnan Sun,
  • Timo Strunk,
  • Velimir Meded,
  • Luis E. Hueso,
  • Wolfgang Wenzel and
  • Mario Ruben

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1107–1115, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.112

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  • organic thin film or at the organic/organic interface (exciplexes) act as electron traps, and as a result, the electron mobility can be lowered until the point of suppression (i.e., below the sensitivity of the instrumentation). Theory of HOMO–LUMO level charge mobility In order to shed more light on the
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Published 05 May 2015

High sensitivity and high resolution element 3D analysis by a combined SIMS–SPM instrument

  • Yves Fleming and
  • Tom Wirtz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1091–1099, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.110

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  • Yves Fleming Tom Wirtz Advanced Instrumentation for Ion Nano-Analytics (AINA), MRT Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), 41 rue du Brill, L-4422 Belvaux, Luxembourg 10.3762/bjnano.6.110 Abstract Using the recently developed SIMS–SPM prototype, secondary ion mass
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Published 30 Apr 2015

Optimization of phase contrast in bimodal amplitude modulation AFM

  • Mehrnoosh Damircheli,
  • Amir F. Payam and
  • Ricardo Garcia

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1072–1081, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.108

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  • bimodal and trimodal AFM in the repulsive regime [41]. However, a similar comparison has not been reported for the attractive interaction regime. In bimodal AFM (Figure 1), the advances in instrumentation are ahead of its theoretical understanding. To bridge the gap between experiments and theory we study
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Published 28 Apr 2015

Automatic morphological characterization of nanobubbles with a novel image segmentation method and its application in the study of nanobubble coalescence

  • Yuliang Wang,
  • Huimin Wang,
  • Shusheng Bi and
  • Bin Guo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 952–963, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.98

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  • the image of the PS surface immersed in DI water. The entire surface is covered with spherical cap-like domains, which are identified as NBs [6]. The Rrms is 2.8 nm, which is a value much larger than that obtained in air. Due to the mechanical instrumentation drift [42] that occurs during imaging, the
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Published 14 Apr 2015

Stick–slip behaviour on Au(111) with adsorption of copper and sulfate

  • Nikolay Podgaynyy,
  • Sabine Wezisla,
  • Christoph Molls,
  • Shahid Iqbal and
  • Helmut Baltruschat

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 820–830, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.85

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  • . Lipkowski et al. [28] used standard electrochemical instrumentation in order to determine the Gibbs excess of copper coadsorbed with SO42− anions. Experimental AFM measurements were performed with a Nanoscope III E controller (Digital Instruments, Santa Barbara, CA) and a commercially available AFM scanner
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Published 26 Mar 2015

Observation of a photoinduced, resonant tunneling effect in a carbon nanotube–silicon heterojunction

  • Carla Aramo,
  • Antonio Ambrosio,
  • Michelangelo Ambrosio,
  • Maurizio Boscardin,
  • Paola Castrucci,
  • Michele Crivellari,
  • Marco Cilmo,
  • Maurizio De Crescenzi,
  • Francesco De Nicola,
  • Emanuele Fiandrini,
  • Valentina Grossi,
  • Pasqualino Maddalena,
  • Maurizio Passacantando,
  • Sandro Santucci,
  • Manuela Scarselli and
  • Antonio Valentini

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 704–710, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.71

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  • 650 nm and (d) 980 nm. Acknowledgements The authors thank P. Di Meo, A. Pandalone and A. Vanzanella for their precious assistance in data acquisition and experimental instrumentation and B. Alfano for the data acquisition programs. This work has been supported by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica
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Published 10 Mar 2015

Pulmonary surfactant augments cytotoxicity of silica nanoparticles: Studies on an in vitro air–blood barrier model

  • Jennifer Y. Kasper,
  • Lisa Feiden,
  • Maria I. Hermanns,
  • Christoph Bantz,
  • Michael Maskos,
  • Ronald E. Unger and
  • C. James Kirkpatrick

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 517–528, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.54

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  • highly complex and requires the use of multi-angle dynamic light scattering instrumentation and sophisticated data analysis methods [14]. Therefore, it will not be discussed within the scope of this publication. Alveolar surfactant: Alveofact® is a commercially available (Lyomark Pharma) neonatal
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Published 20 Feb 2015

A scanning probe microscope for magnetoresistive cantilevers utilizing a nested scanner design for large-area scans

  • Tobias Meier,
  • Alexander Förste,
  • Ali Tavassolizadeh,
  • Karsten Rott,
  • Dirk Meyners,
  • Roland Gröger,
  • Günter Reiss,
  • Eckhard Quandt,
  • Thomas Schimmel and
  • Hendrik Hölscher

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 451–461, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.46

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  • excitation [16] and interfere with the sample as it can cause photobleaching of fluorescence samples [17]. For specific applications and environments like vacuum, self-sensing tuning forks with manually attached tips can greatly simplify instrumentation but at the cost of reduced operation modes [18][19][20
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Published 13 Feb 2015

Exploiting the hierarchical morphology of single-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotube films for highly hydrophobic coatings

  • Francesco De Nicola,
  • Paola Castrucci,
  • Manuela Scarselli,
  • Francesca Nanni,
  • Ilaria Cacciotti and
  • Maurizio De Crescenzi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 353–360, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.34

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  • ) for their courtesy of contact angle instrumentation. This project was financial supported by the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD) through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Material Command, USAF, under Grant No. FA9550-14-1-0047.
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Published 02 Feb 2015

Tailoring the ligand shell for the control of cellular uptake and optical properties of nanocrystals

  • Johannes Ostermann,
  • Christian Schmidtke,
  • Christopher Wolter,
  • Jan-Philip Merkl,
  • Hauke Kloust and
  • Horst Weller

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 232–242, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.22

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  • g/mol, using different excesses (C) during phase transfer (Figure reproduced with permission from [28]. Copyright 2014 Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers). Synthetic routes of the modified PI-b-PEG ligands. (a) succinic anhydride, THF; (b) 2-(boc-amino)ethyl bromide, THF; (c) 1-(3
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Published 21 Jan 2015

Manganese oxide phases and morphologies: A study on calcination temperature and atmospheric dependence

  • Matthias Augustin,
  • Daniela Fenske,
  • Ingo Bardenhagen,
  • Anne Westphal,
  • Martin Knipper,
  • Thorsten Plaggenborg,
  • Joanna Kolny-Olesiak and
  • Jürgen Parisi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 47–59, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.6

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  • out on a rotating disc electrode (RDE) in a glove box in Ar atmosphere at ambient temperature. For the electrochemical setup, glassy carbon (Pine Research Instrumentation, electrode model no. AFE3T050GC) and carbon/catalyst-coated glassy carbon discs (see above) served as working electrodes. A
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Published 06 Jan 2015
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