Comparison of the interactions of daunorubicin in a free form and attached to single-walled carbon nanotubes with model lipid membranes

• Dorota Matyszewska

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• . Acknowledgements Prof. Jan Biernat is acknowledged for providing CNTs-DNR conjugates. This work was supported by the Foundation for Polish Science with the POMOST/2011-3/6 project co-financed by the European Union, Regional Development Fund.

Rigid multipodal platforms for metal surfaces

• Michal Valášek,
• Marcin Lindner and
• Marcel Mayor

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 374–405, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.34

Case studies on the formation of chalcogenide self-assembled monolayers on surfaces and dissociative processes

• Yongfeng Tong,
• Tingming Jiang,
• Azzedine Bendounan,
• Makri Nimbegondi Kotresh Harish,
• Angelo Giglia,
• Stefan Kubsky,
• Fausto Sirotti,
• Luca Pasquali,
• Srinivasan Sampath and
• Vladimir A. Esaulov

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• adapted with permission from [62], copyright 2011 American Chemical Society. (B) XPS spectra for DH4T [63] on gold for different cases of deposition as indicated for each curve. In this panel, the spectra refer to: a) 15 nm thick layer of DH4T on Au, b) DH4T layer on AlQ3 film on Au, c) a 1 nm DH4T layer

Mismatch detection in DNA monolayers by atomic force microscopy and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

• Maryse D. Nkoua Ngavouka,
• Pietro Capaldo,
• Elena Ambrosetti,
• Giacinto Scoles,
• Loredana Casalis and
• Pietro Parisse

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• experimental data. Acknowledgements This work was supported by a FIRB 2011 grant “Nanotechnological approaches toward tumor theragnostic” (P.P., E.A., M.D.N.N. and L.C.), a grant from the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC) to L.C. and P.C. (AIRC 5 per mille 2011, no. 12214), and European

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

Chemiresistive/SERS dual sensor based on densely packed gold nanoparticles

• Sanda Boca,
• Cosmin Leordean,
• Simion Astilean and
• Cosmin Farcau

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• : Additional experimental data. Acknowledgements This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS–UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-RU-TE-2011-3-0134. S. Boca acknowledges COST Action Raman4Clinics.

Ultrastructural changes in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus induced by positively charged silver nanoparticles

• Dulce G. Romero-Urbina,
• Humberto H. Lara,
• J. Jesús Velázquez-Salazar,
• M. Josefina Arellano-Jiménez,
• Eduardo Larios,
• Anand Srinivasan,
• Jose L. Lopez-Ribot and
• Miguel José Yacamán

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• as described in [56] and as suggested by the CLSI (2011). In brief, single colonies of a microbiological culture were grown in selective chromogenic medium plates (ChromAgar BD Biosciences). The colonies were diluted in saline solution and adjusted to 1.5 × 108 CFU/mL. The bacterial suspensions were

Nanostructured surfaces by supramolecular self-assembly of linear oligosilsesquioxanes with biocompatible side groups

• Maria Nowacka,
• Anna Kowalewska and
• Tomasz Makowski

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• The authors thank the Polish National Science Centre for the financial support within grant DEC-2011/03/B/ST5/02672 ‘‘Studies on preparation and structurization of new hybrid materials’’. We also acknowledge the assistance of Adam Michalski in recording ATR-FTIR spectra.

Selective porous gates made from colloidal silica nanoparticles

• Roberto Nisticò,
• Paola Avetta,
• Paola Calza,
• Debora Fabbri,
• Giuliana Magnacca and
• Dominique Scalarone

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• . Acknowledgements Compagnia di San Paolo and University of Torino are gratefully acknowledged for funding Project ORTO114XNH through “Bando per il finanziamento di progetti di ricerca di Ateneo – anno 2011”. The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange project funded by the European Commission

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

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• exposure, and electron irradiation of deposits formed with Co2(CO)8 was found to result in compact, carbon and oxygen free Co layers [84]. In a 2011 gas phase study, Engmann et al. [24] published absolute cross section values for DEA to Co(CO)3NO. These were the first absolute cross section values

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

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

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Nanotechnology in the real world: Redeveloping the nanomaterial consumer products inventory

• Marina E. Vance,
• Todd Kuiken,
• Eric P. Vejerano,
• Sean P. McGinnis,
• Michael F. Hochella Jr.,
• David Rejeski and
• Matthew S. Hull

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• in Standardization (ANEC), joined efforts to develop an inventory of “consumer products with nano-claims” available to consumers in Europe [10]. A new inventory was generated annually from 2009 to 2012, but the 2011 and 2012 versions focused exclusively on products containing silver nanoparticles

• inventory during this project (referred here as CPI 2.0). Finally, we present an overview of the current data present in the CPI after the completion of this project. Results and Discussion CPI growth over time Table 1 lists the growth of the CPI since 2005. In 2011, before this current project, the CPI

The Nanomaterial Data Curation Initiative: A collaborative approach to assessing, evaluating, and advancing the state of the field

• Christine Ogilvie Hendren,
• Christina M. Powers,
• Mark D. Hoover and
• Stacey L. Harper

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• 2011 and periodically updated. In addition, the group recently developed and published data-exchange standards along with tools to enable the use of these standards (ISA-TAB-Nano; ASTM International E2909-13) [6]. To build on these efforts, the NCIP NanoWG is now developing a shared vision for curation

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

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

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DNA–melamine hybrid molecules: from self-assembly to nanostructures

• Rina Kumari,
• Shib Shankar Banerjee,
• Anil K. Bhowmick and
• Prolay Das

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• experimental methods, RP-HPLC chromatograms, ESI and MALDI mass spectrometry data and spectra, AFM images, and CD spectra. Acknowledgements This work was supported by a grant to P. D. from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, Project No. BT/PR3444/NNT/28/560/2011. All the authors thank

The Kirkendall effect and nanoscience: hollow nanospheres and nanotubes

• Abdel-Aziz El Mel,
• Ryusuke Nakamura and
• Carla Bittencourt

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• (≈250 nm in diameter) and (c) thin (≈140 nm) nickel nanowires after thermal oxidation for 5 min at 500 °C in ambient air. Schematic showing the type of voids formed during oxidation of a nickel nanowire with a thick (b) and a thin (d) diameter. Figure adapted with permission from [67], copyright 2011

From lithium to sodium: cell chemistry of room temperature sodium–air and sodium–sulfur batteries

• Philipp Adelhelm,
• Pascal Hartmann,
• Conrad L. Bender,
• Martin Busche,
• Christine Eufinger and
• Juergen Janek

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• been proposed [9][31][35][36][37][38] as well as noble metals [39][40][41]. In 2011, McCloskey et al. attentively figured out that catalysts such as Pt, MnO2 or Au also promote the decomposition of the aprotic electrolyte rather than the oxygen evolution reaction (see also Figure 5) [42]. Although both

• expectations. A new and promising concept is to add soluble and redox-active molecules to the liquid electrolyte. In 2011 Liox Power Inc. filed a patent application on such “soluble oxygen evolving catalysts for rechargeable metal–air batteries” [96]. Those often called redox mediators (RM) molecules possess a

• occurred at about 3 V. As we will see in the following, the overall cycling behavior of this cell is very different from cells operating with a solid sodium anode at room temperature. In 2011, Sun et al. showed first results on an aprotic, room temperature sodium oxygen cell (Figure 10a) [101]. In contrast

Nanostructuring of GeTiO amorphous films by pulsed laser irradiation

• Valentin S. Teodorescu,
• Cornel Ghica,
• Adrian V. Maraloiu,
• Mihai Vlaicu,
• Andrei Kuncser,
• Magdalena L. Ciurea,
• Ionel Stavarache,
• Ana M. Lepadatu,
• Nicu D. Scarisoreanu,
• Andreea Andrei,
• Valentin Ion and
• Maria Dinescu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 893–900, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.92

• process (b). The lattice fringe spacing in panel (b) is smaller than that in panel (a). Acknowledgements The paper was supported by the PNII ID project No 289/2011 and PN II-PT-PCCA-9/2012. The authors are grateful to Dr. E. F. Wagner (EPFL) for the permission to use the Heat Flow software for the

Protein corona – from molecular adsorption to physiological complexity

• Lennart Treuel,
• Dominic Docter,
• Michael Maskos and
• Roland H. Stauber

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• formation under physiological conditions it is essential to identify the underlying individual factors governing the corona under these conditions. In 2011, Tenzer and colleagues discovered that the size of the particles alone is a critical physicochemical determinant of the human blood plasma corona [8

A versatile strategy towards non-covalent functionalization of graphene by surface-confined supramolecular self-assembly of Janus tectons

• Ping Du,
• David Bléger,
• Fabrice Charra,
• Vincent Bouchiat,
• David Kreher,
• Fabrice Mathevet and
• André-Jean Attias

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 632–639, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.64

• (49.3 x 49.3 nm2) of the self-assembly at the HOPG–phenyloctane interface. The scaled model of the molecular assembly is superimposed on the STM picture (only lower levels A are represented for clarity). Figure adapted with permission from [29], copyright 2011 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. Synthetic

Silica micro/nanospheres for theranostics: from bimodal MRI and fluorescent imaging probes to cancer therapy

• Shanka Walia and
• Amitabha Acharya

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Raman spectroscopy as a tool to investigate the structure and electronic properties of carbon-atom wires

• Alberto Milani,
• Matteo Tommasini,
• Valeria Russo,
• Andrea Li Bassi,
• Andrea Lucotti,
• Franco Cataldo and
• Carlo S. Casari

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 480–491, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.49

• experimental Raman spectrum of panel (a). The spectrum of size-selected phenyl-capped polyyne with 4 carbon atoms is also reported. (d) Peaks corresponding to different wire lengths according to DFT calculations of the Raman modes [39]. Figure adapted with permission from [39], copyright 2011 American Chemical

• permission from [39], copyright 2011 American Chemical Society. (a) Modulation of the DFT-computed [39] vibrational frequency and (b) Raman activity of the ECC band for phenyl-capped polyynes of different lengths (N) and charge states (0, +1, –1). Figure adapted with permission from [39], copyright 2011

• ). Figure adapted with permission from [39], copyright 2011 American Chemical Society.

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of graphitic carbon nanomaterials doped with heteroatoms

• Toma Susi,
• Thomas Pichler and
• Paola Ayala

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• (4) triple N pyridinic vacancy (3NV); (5) pyrrole-like N, (6) interstitial N or adatom, and (7) amine or (8) nitrile groups. Adapted with permission from [127], copyright 2011 The American Chemical Society. Photoemission measurements of the carbon 1s line for various graphitic carbon nanomaterials

Materials and characterization techniques for high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

• Roswitha Zeis

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 68–83, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.8

High-frequency multimodal atomic force microscopy

• Adrian P. Nievergelt,
• Jonathan D. Adams,
• Pascal D. Odermatt and
• Georg E. Fantner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 2459–2467, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.255

• /2007-2011 under grant agreement 286146 and the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013/ERC grant agreement 307338, European Community and EUREKA through Eurostars E!8213 TRIPLE-S Microscope, and the Swiss National Science Foundation through grants 205321_134786 and 205320_152675.