Self-assembled monolayers and titanium dioxide: From surface patterning to potential applications

• Yaron Paz

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 845–861, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.94

• two-steps method, in which a HS–(CH2)10–COOH monolayer was first adsorbed on gold and then exposed to an ethanolic TiO2 colloid solution, and a one-step process in which an ethanolic colloid of TiO2 nanocrystallites was prepared by the sol–gel method in the presence of the functionalized thiols prior

Highly efficient ZnO/Au Schottky barrier dye-sensitized solar cells: Role of gold nanoparticles on the charge-transfer process

• Tanujjal Bora,
• Htet H. Kyaw,
• Soumik Sarkar,
• Samir K. Pal and
• Joydeep Dutta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 681–690, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.73

• 0.01 mM HAuCl4·H2O aq. solution. (a) Optical absorption of ZnO nanorods, ZnO/Au-nanocomposite photoelectrode and Au-nanoparticle colloid (particle size ~20 nm) and (b) TEM image of Au nanoparticles in situ deposited on the surface of a ZnO nanorod. (a) J–V characteristics of the bare ZnO-nanorod and

Distinction of nucleobases – a tip-enhanced Raman approach

• Regina Treffer,
• Xiumei Lin,
• Elena Bailo,
• Tanja Deckert-Gaudig and
• Volker Deckert

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 628–637, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.66

• stranded calf thymus DNA (Sigma-Aldrich) were used in these experiments without further purification. Any further chemicals used for buffer solutions and colloid synthesis were purchased either at Sigma-Aldrich or VWR international. The adenine homopolymer and the calf thymus DNA were dissolved in a buffer

Platinum nanoparticles from size adjusted functional colloidal particles generated by a seeded emulsion polymerization process

• Nicolas Vogel,
• Ulrich Ziener,
• Achim Manzke,
• Alfred Plettl,
• Paul Ziemann,
• Johannes Biskupek,
• Clemens K. Weiss and
• Katharina Landfester

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 459–472, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.50

• distance of about 260 nm for well-defined crystalline platinum nanoparticles limited by deformation processes due to softening of the organic material during the plasma applications. Keywords: colloid lithography; functional colloids; miniemulsion polymerization; nanoparticles; seeded emulsion

• the reaction details, respectively. First, sodium chloride was added to the continuous phase. The presence of salt affects the stability of colloidal particles as the extension of the electrical double layer of ionic surfactants present at the colloid interface is reduced by the counter ions of the

• of the colloid and its value in the saturated state after etching, one arrives at an equivalent Pt layer thickness of around 3 to 4 Å (Pt lattice parameter aPt = 3.92 Å). A similar result was obtained for Pt-precursor loaded polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) particles [35]. This suggests that the

Magnetic interactions between nanoparticles

• Steen Mørup,
• Mikkel Fougt Hansen and
• Cathrine Frandsen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 182–190, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.22

• permission from Xu, M.; Bahl, C. R. H.; Frandsen, C.; Mørup, S. Inter-particle interactions in agglomerates of α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles: Influence of grinding, J. Colloid Interface Science 2004, 279 132–136. Copyright (2004) by Elsevier. (a) The quadrupole shift of coated (open circles) and uncoated (solid