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Surface roughness rather than surface chemistry essentially affects insect adhesion

  • Matt W. England,
  • Tomoya Sato,
  • Makoto Yagihashi,
  • Atsushi Hozumi,
  • Stanislav N. Gorb and
  • Elena V. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1471–1479, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.139

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  • , hydrophobic monolayer-covered surfaces, terminated with octadecylsilyl (CH3(CH2)17-) or perfluoroalkyl (CF3(CF2)7CH2CH2-) groups, were prepared using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of ODS or FAS17 [36], respectively. UV–ozone treated Si substrates (2 × 2 cm2 and 5 × 5 cm2) were placed on a heat-resistant
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Published 18 Oct 2016

Dealloying of gold–copper alloy nanowires: From hillocks to ring-shaped nanopores

  • Adrien Chauvin,
  • Cyril Delacôte,
  • Mohammed Boujtita,
  • Benoit Angleraud,
  • Junjun Ding,
  • Chang-Hwan Choi,
  • Pierre-Yves Tessier and
  • Abdel-Aziz El Mel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1361–1367, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.127

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  • [6][7]. The formation of hillocks has been encountered in case of various processes such as evaporation and sputtering [7][8][9], ion beam assisted deposition (IBAD) [10][11], chemical vapor deposition (CVD) [12][13] and electroplating [14]. Hillocks are the outcome of a nodular growth taking place
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Published 29 Sep 2016

Reasons and remedies for the agglomeration of multilayered graphene and carbon nanotubes in polymers

  • Rasheed Atif and
  • Fawad Inam

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1174–1196, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.109

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  • SWNT, i.e., the area of a parallelogram OACB, and δ is the distance between nearest-neighbor C–C atoms in adjacent SWNTs (0.34 nm for the ideal case) [42]. The value obtained for close-packed SWNTs produced by catalytic chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is about one order of magnitude lesser than that of
  • surface defects introduced during grafting the CNT on fibers through CVD. The deleterious effect of CNT grafting depends upon the nature of fiber, the surface treatments and growth conditions [129]]. Chemical vapor deposition: The most commonly used synthesis of CNTs is the reaction of a gaseous carbon
  • feedstock on catalyst particles, i.e., chemical vapor deposition (CVD) [2][36]. CNT can be produced by using organo-metallic compounds as precursor (e.g., ferrocene), a carbon feedstock (e.g., toluene) and a carrier gas (e.g., hydrogen) [130]. It is difficult to control the diameter of the nanotubes
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Published 12 Aug 2016

Signal enhancement in cantilever magnetometry based on a co-resonantly coupled sensor

  • Julia Körner,
  • Christopher F. Reiche,
  • Thomas Gemming,
  • Bernd Büchner,
  • Gerald Gerlach and
  • Thomas Mühl

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1033–1043, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.96

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  • individual nanotube was picked from a forest of FeCNTs grown by chemical vapor deposition [10] by a Kleindiek micromanipulator and placed at the free end of the cantilever. Electron beam-induced deposition of amorphous carbon on the contact point between FeCNT and cantilever ensures a strong attachment of
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Published 18 Jul 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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  • discharge in presence of metal nanoparticles [17], high-energy laser excitation of ethylene at high temperatures [18] and chemical vapor deposition using catalysts [19]. There are some excellent reviews devoted to C-onions and their chemistry and applications [20][21]. Due to the intricate processes, the
  • conventional synthetic methods such as arc-discharge and chemical vapor deposition are insoluble in water, which restricts their use in analytical, biological and biomedical applications. Our results showed that water-soluble C-onions could be prepared by a simple carbonization method using tomatoes as carbon
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Published 27 May 2016

Synthesis and applications of carbon nanomaterials for energy generation and storage

  • Marco Notarianni,
  • Jinzhang Liu,
  • Kristy Vernon and
  • Nunzio Motta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 149–196, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.17

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  • compared to CVD, and Chemical vapor deposition (CVD): high quality, most common method with low batch yield (≈30 mg/day). In the arc-discharge method, the carbon is evaporated by helium plasma ignited by high current passed through an opposing carbon anode and cathode. This method requires the use of a
  • acid [53]. In both the arc discharge and laser ablation methods, bundles of MWNTs and SWNTs held together by van der Waals forces are generated by the condensation of carbon atoms generated from the evaporation of solid carbon sources. The third method, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), involves the
  • few defects [134]. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The CVD method is commonly used to produce large-area uniform graphene films [77][135]. Similar to the CVD method used to grow CNTs, graphene can be grown from gases containing C on catalytic metal surfaces or by surface segregation of C dissolved in
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Published 01 Feb 2016

Dependence of lattice strain relaxation, absorbance, and sheet resistance on thickness in textured ZnO@B transparent conductive oxide for thin-film solar cell applications

  • Kuang-Yang Kou,
  • Yu-En Huang,
  • Chien-Hsun Chen and
  • Shih-Wei Feng

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 75–80, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.9

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  • resistance. These experimental results reveal the optical and material characteristics of the TCO layer, which could be useful for enhancing the performance of solar cells through an optimized TCO layer. Keywords: absorbance; low-pressure chemical vapor deposition; strain relaxation; transparent conductive
  • meV), high thermal stability, high transparency, and high conduction, wurtzite ZnO is a very promising TCO material used for the front contact, barrier layer, and intermediate reflector in solar cells [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) can be implemented to
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Published 20 Jan 2016

Sonochemical co-deposition of antibacterial nanoparticles and dyes on textiles

  • Ilana Perelshtein,
  • Anat Lipovsky,
  • Nina Perkas,
  • Tzanko Tzanov and
  • Aharon Gedanken

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1–8, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.1

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  • is the direct impregnation of textiles in the reactant solution. Other methods such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of silver NPs on textiles have also been used [1]. Among the various other coating techniques the sonochemical immobilization was carried out on a large variety of substrates
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Published 04 Jan 2016

Sub-monolayer film growth of a volatile lanthanide complex on metallic surfaces

  • Hironari Isshiki,
  • Jinjie Chen,
  • Kevin Edelmann and
  • Wulf Wulfhekel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2412–2416, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.248

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  • known as volatile lanthanide complexes since the 1970s and have been used as precursors in chemical vapor deposition in the thin-film industry [10]. However, to the best of our knowledge, there has been only one paper that reports on the characterization of isolated molecules of ruthenium (platinum
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Published 16 Dec 2015

Surfactant-controlled composition and crystal structure of manganese(II) sulfide nanocrystals prepared by solvothermal synthesis

  • Elena Capetti,
  • Anna M. Ferretti,
  • Vladimiro Dal Santo and
  • Alessandro Ponti

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2319–2329, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.238

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  • materials [10]. Although MnS NCs have been synthesized by different methods, including chemical vapor deposition [11][12][13] and hydrothermal [14][15][16] methods, here we focus on NCs synthesized by solvothermal methods, which usually allow more experimental flexibility and improved NC control. Whereas
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Published 07 Dec 2015

Plasma fluorination of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes: functionalization and thermal stability

  • Claudia Struzzi,
  • Mattia Scardamaglia,
  • Axel Hemberg,
  • Luca Petaccia,
  • Jean-François Colomer,
  • Rony Snyders and
  • Carla Bittencourt

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2263–2271, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.232

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  • a fine selection of grafted species and tuning of electronic properties. Experimental vCNTs were produced by catalytic chemical vapor deposition (CCVD) at atmospheric pressure. The catalysts were prepared by magnetron sputtering; first, a 30 nm Al2O3 buffer layer was deposited on Si wafers with
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Published 01 Dec 2015

Enhanced model for determining the number of graphene layers and their distribution from X-ray diffraction data

  • Beti Andonovic,
  • Abdulakim Ademi,
  • Anita Grozdanov,
  • Perica Paunović and
  • Aleksandar T. Dimitrov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2113–2122, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.216

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  • attracted great interest in terms of fundamental studies as well as potential applications [2]. To date, several methods have been used to produce high-quality graphene sheets, such as mechanical exfoliation of graphite, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of gases containing carbon atoms on the surface of
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Published 06 Nov 2015

Effect of SiNx diffusion barrier thickness on the structural properties and photocatalytic activity of TiO2 films obtained by sol–gel dip coating and reactive magnetron sputtering

  • Mohamed Nawfal Ghazzal,
  • Eric Aubry,
  • Nouari Chaoui and
  • Didier Robert

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2039–2045, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.207

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  • plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, respectively. In this paper, we studied the effect of the SiNx thickness on thin TiO2 layers coated by either a soft chemistry (sol–gel) or physical (reactive sputtering) method. In earlier work, we studied the concentration of Na+ ions as a function of the SiNx
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Published 16 Oct 2015

Nitrogen-doped graphene films from chemical vapor deposition of pyridine: influence of process parameters on the electrical and optical properties

  • Andrea Capasso,
  • Theodoros Dikonimos,
  • Francesca Sarto,
  • Alessio Tamburrano,
  • Giovanni De Bellis,
  • Maria Sabrina Sarto,
  • Giuliana Faggio,
  • Angela Malara,
  • Giacomo Messina and
  • Nicola Lisi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2028–2038, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.206

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  • Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, delle Infrastrutture e dell'Energia Sostenibile (DIIES), Università “Mediterranea” di Reggio Calabria, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy 10.3762/bjnano.6.206 Abstract Graphene films were produced by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of
  • production of high-quality graphene for electronics is probably chemical vapor deposition (CVD). By this technique it is possible to produce graphene with large grain sizes and high crystalline quality over large areas [14]. Nonetheless, the sheet resistance of most CVD-graphene films (even in single-crystal
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Published 14 Oct 2015

The role of low-energy electrons in focused electron beam induced deposition: four case studies of representative precursors

  • Rachel M. Thorman,
  • Ragesh Kumar T. P.,
  • D. Howard Fairbrother and
  • Oddur Ingólfsson

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1904–1926, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.194

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  • attributes: i) sufficient vapor pressure to facilitate their introduction into a vacuum chamber, ii) chemical stability under ambient conditions and iii) non-toxicity and easy handling. These criteria are the same as those that define suitable precursors for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) [4][5]. Because of
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Published 16 Sep 2015

Metal hydrides: an innovative and challenging conversion reaction anode for lithium-ion batteries

  • Luc Aymard,
  • Yassine Oumellal and
  • Jean-Pierre Bonnet

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1821–1839, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.186

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  • : 65.3 kJ·(mol H2)−1 bulk material: 74 kJ·(mol H2)−1). Hydriding chemical vapor deposition (HCVD) is also a powerful method to produce in situ high purity nano/microscale MgH2 under hydrogen. This method, which enables to play with temperature and pressure, is a nice tool for the preparation of a variety
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Published 31 Aug 2015

Possibilities and limitations of advanced transmission electron microscopy for carbon-based nanomaterials

  • Xiaoxing Ke,
  • Carla Bittencourt and
  • Gustaaf Van Tendeloo

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1541–1557, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.158

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  • electronic scattering and phonon scattering are very likely to be disturbed at the boundary. The fundamental studies on the atomic structure of graphene have a significant impact on the large-scale applications of graphene. Graphene synthesized through chemical vapor deposition (CVD) often exhibits a
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Published 16 Jul 2015

Formation of pure Cu nanocrystals upon post-growth annealing of Cu–C material obtained from focused electron beam induced deposition: comparison of different methods

  • Aleksandra Szkudlarek,
  • Alfredo Rodrigues Vaz,
  • Yucheng Zhang,
  • Andrzej Rudkowski,
  • Czesław Kapusta,
  • Rolf Erni,
  • Stanislav Moshkalev and
  • Ivo Utke

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1508–1517, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.156

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  • makes the localized deposition of this metal very attractive for applications in nano-electronics. The organometallic hexafluoroacetylacetonate (hfac)-based Cu(I) and Cu(II) precursors are widely used in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods due to their stability and high vapor pressure. They allow
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Published 13 Jul 2015

Using natural language processing techniques to inform research on nanotechnology

  • Nastassja A. Lewinski and
  • Bridget T. McInnes

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1439–1449, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.149

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  • reporting arc-discharge and laser vaporization synthesis methods [26]. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods were also mentioned as being invented frequently. Top patenting companies included NEC, Samsung and Sony. Their dynamic tool revealed a possible patent vacuum of using low temperature or microwave
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Published 01 Jul 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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  • using diazonium salts have been published [19][20]. Generally one of the following methods is used to synthesize carbon-coated NPs: reducing flame spray synthesis, flame aerosol synthesis, chemical vapor deposition, etc. However, these procedures require special equipment or techniques [21]. One of the
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Published 21 May 2015

Interaction of electromagnetic radiation in the 20–200 GHz frequency range with arrays of carbon nanotubes with ferromagnetic nanoparticles

  • Agylych Atdayev,
  • Alexander L. Danilyuk and
  • Serghej L. Prischepa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1056–1064, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.106

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  • resistive–inductive–capacitive (RiLiCi) circuits, which leads to a deeper understanding of the problem. Such nanocomposites can be easily synthesized in situ during the CNT growth by chemical vapor deposition, which involves carbon decomposition of an organic precursor with 3d catalytic metals such as Fe
  • , Ni and Co [32]. Model Before describing our theoretical approach in detail, we first specify the object of investigation targeted in this work. We consider the CNT-based nanocomposite synthesized by floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition (FCCVD) employing ferrocene Fe(C5H5)2 as the source of
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Published 24 Apr 2015

Characterization of nanostructured ZnO thin films deposited through vacuum evaporation

  • Jose Alberto Alvarado,
  • Arturo Maldonado,
  • Héctor Juarez,
  • Mauricio Pacio and
  • Rene Perez

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 971–975, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.100

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  • , they can be used in many applications, such as gas sensors [4]. A wide range of techniques to deposit thin films are used, such as molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) [5], single-source chemical vapor deposition (SS CVD) [6], metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) [7], sol–gel [8], spray pyrolysis [9
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Published 16 Apr 2015

Observing the morphology of single-layered embedded silicon nanocrystals by using temperature-stable TEM membranes

  • Sebastian Gutsch,
  • Daniel Hiller,
  • Jan Laube,
  • Margit Zacharias and
  • Christian Kübel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 964–970, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.99

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  • -plane energy-filtered TEM (EFTEM) as was demonstrated for Si NCs formed by low energy Si ion implantation [10][26], plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PE-CVD) [27] or evaporation [28] followed by a high temperature annealing. The bottleneck in such measurements is the low TEM plane view specimen
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Published 15 Apr 2015

Graphene on SiC(0001) inspected by dynamic atomic force microscopy at room temperature

  • Mykola Telychko,
  • Jan Berger,
  • Zsolt Majzik,
  • Pavel Jelínek and
  • Martin Švec

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 901–906, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.93

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  • hinders applications of epitaxial graphene in the nanoelectronics [1]. The two main methods of epitaxial graphene growth are chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on metal surfaces [2] and annealing of silicon carbide (SiC) [3]. The large conductivity of metal substrates leaves graphene on metals as model-only
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Published 07 Apr 2015

Morphology control of zinc oxide films via polysaccharide-mediated, low temperature, chemical bath deposition

  • Florian Waltz,
  • Hans-Christoph Schwarz,
  • Andreas M. Schneider,
  • Stefanie Eiden and
  • Peter Behrens

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 799–808, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.83

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  • more than 2100 publications in 2013 (Thomson Reuters, Web of Knowledge). Several methods have been used to deposit ZnO on different substrates, for example, pulsed laser deposition (PLD) [11], chemical vapor deposition (CVD) [12][13], as well as wet chemical approaches such as sol–gel synthesis [14
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Published 24 Mar 2015
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