STM tip-assisted engineering of molecular nanostructures: PTCDA islands on Ge(001):H surfaces

• Amir A. Ahmad Zebari,
• Marek Kolmer and
• Jakub S. Prauzner-Bechcicki

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 927–932, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.104

• . Godlewski on the experimental procedures. This work was supported by a grant from Switzerland through the Swiss Contribution to the enlarged European Union (Joint Polish-Swiss Research Program) no PSPB-085/2010 “Molecular assemblies on semiconductors and insulating surfaces” (http://www.molsurf.eu).

Challenges in realizing ultraflat materials surfaces

• Takashi Yatsui,
• Wataru Nomura,
• Fabrice Stehlin,
• Olivier Soppera,
• Makoto Naruse and
• Motoichi Ohtsu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 875–885, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.99

• [46]. Copyright 2010 Springer Science+Business Media). Flattened AFM images of the sapphire substrate surface after RF sputtering (c) without and (d) with visible light illumination. (e, f) Flattened AFM images of (c) and (d), respectively, shown in gray-scale. (g, h) Cross-sectional profiles along

Surface passivation and optical characterization of Al₂O₃/a-SiC_x stacks on c-Si substrates

• Gema López,
• Pablo R. Ortega,
• Cristóbal Voz,
• Isidro Martín,
• Mónica Colina,
• Anna B. Morales,
• Albert Orpella and
• Ramón Alcubilla

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 726–731, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.82

• ENE2010-21384-C04-04, TEC2011-26329 and INNDISOL IPT-420000-2010-6 (FEDER funded “Una manera de hacer Europa”).

Modulation of defect-mediated energy transfer from ZnO nanoparticles for the photocatalytic degradation of bilirubin

• Tanujjal Bora,
• Karthik K. Lakshman,
• Soumik Sarkar,
• Abhinandan Makhal,
• Samim Sardar,
• Samir K. Pal and
• Joydeep Dutta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 714–725, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.81

• JEM-2010) was used for the morphological and crystallographic characterization of the ZnO nanoparticles used in this study. The TEM samples were prepared by applying a drop of the ZnO nanoparticle samples dispersed in ethanol onto the carbon side of carbon-coated copper grids and dried overnight in

Functionalization of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes

• Eloise Van Hooijdonk,
• Carla Bittencourt,
• Rony Snyders and
• Jean-François Colomer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 129–152, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.14

• physical and chemical properties of the CNTs due to the plasma process (i.e., fluorination in CF4 of the CNTs, defect-density increase and opening of the CNT caps). Oxidation of VA-CNTs: As-grown VA-CNTs are superhydrophobic [89]. In 2010, Ramos et al. [90] emphasized that a post-treatment by using oxygen

Plasmonic oligomers in cylindrical vector light beams

• Mario Hentschel,
• Jens Dorfmüller,
• Harald Giessen,
• Sebastian Jäger,
• Andreas M. Kern,
• Kai Braun,
• Dai Zhang and
• Alfred J. Meixner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 57–65, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.6

• ) SEM images of the corresponding samples with indicated interparticle gap distances. The scale-bar dimension is 500 nm. (right column) Simulated extinction cross-section spectra by using the multiple-multipole method. Adapted with permission from [13]. Copyright (2010) American Chemical Society

• mode and the broad super-radiant mode results in the Fano resonance. In the absence of the central nanoparticle, the nanoparticles in the hexamer always oscillate in phase, leading to a collective dipolar mode. Adapted with permission from [13]. Copyright (2010) American Chemical Society. (a) Examples

Nanostructure-directed chemical sensing: The IHSAB principle and the dynamics of acid/base-interface interaction

• James L. Gole and
• William Laminack

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 20–31, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.3

• is used for gathering data and supplying the DC current. Labview software is used to control the experiment and record the results. MATLAB is used in the analysis of the data. Schematic representation of PS sensor interface structure. Reproduced with permission from [3]. Copyright 2010 Wiley-VCH

• micropores; (c) 10 to 30 nm AuxO nanostructures on porous silicon. Reproduced with permission from [3]. Copyright 2010 Wiley-VCH. Relative increase in response (increase in resistance) of SnO2, NiO, CuxO, and gold clustered oxide, AuxO treated “p-type” PS interfaces relative to the untreated PS interface

Diamond nanophotonics

• Katja Beha,
• Helmut Fedder,
• Marco Wolfer,
• Merle C. Becker,
• Petr Siyushev,
• Mohammad Jamali,
• Anton Batalov,
• Christopher Hinz,
• Jakob Hees,
• Lutz Kirste,
• Harald Obloh,
• Etienne Gheeraert,
• Boris Naydenov,
• Ingmar Jakobi,
• Florian Dolde,
• Sébastien Pezzagna,
• Daniel Twittchen,
• Matthew Markham,
• Daniel Dregely,
• Harald Giessen,
• Jan Meijer,
• Fedor Jelezko,
• Christoph E. Nebel,
• Rudolf Bratschitsch,
• Alfred Leitenstorfer and
• Jörg Wrachtrup

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 895–908, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.100

• ) Elimination of refraction with a hemispherical lens. (c) Collection efficiency as a function of numerical aperture with (red line) and without (black line) the solid immersion lens. Reproduced with permission from [10]. Copyright 2010 American Institute of Physics. Macroscopic solid immersion lens [10]. (a

• of the NV− center. (d) Photon antibunching. The dip at time delay τ = 0 is well below 0.5, indicating a single quantum emitter. (e) Saturation curves with and without the solid immersion lens. Reproduced with permission from [10]. Copyright 2010 American Institute of Physics. Fabrication of a

Paper modified with ZnO nanorods – antimicrobial studies

• Mayuree Jaisai,
• Sunandan Baruah and
• Joydeep Dutta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 684–691, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.78

• . For transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), a JEOL/JEM 2010 operated at 120 kV was used. Samples for TEM were prepared by scraping off ZnO nanorods from a glass substrate grown under similar conditions. A diluted aqueous suspension of the ZnO nanorods was carefully dropped on a copper-coated TEM grid

Nano-structuring, surface and bulk modification with a focused helium ion beam

• Daniel Fox,
• Yanhui Chen,
• Colm C. Faulkner and
• Hongzhou Zhang

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 579–585, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.67

• Program for Research in Third Level Institutions, Cycle 4, National Development Plan 2007-2013. Dr. Chen acknowledges IRCSET Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postgraduate cofounded by SolarPrint (IRCSET-SolarPrint-2010-02).

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

• nanorods (ZnO/Au nanocomposite) was performed by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM, JEOL JSM-6301F) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM, JEOL JEM-2010). Optical absorptions of the photoelectrodes were measured by using a UV–vis spectrophotometer from Ocean Optics (Micropack DH-2000) with

Superhydrophobicity in perfection: the outstanding properties of the lotus leaf

• Hans J. Ensikat,
• Petra Ditsche-Kuru,
• Christoph Neinhuis and
• Wilhelm Barthlott

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 152–161, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.19

• h. Bhushan et al. (2010) [4] used the surface structures of the lotus leaf as model for the development of artificial biomimetic superhydrophobic structures. It became obvious that the outstanding and stable superhydrophobicity of the lotus leaf relies on the combination of optimized features such

• wax components with similar chain length shows that the melting points increase with the occurrence of polar OH-groups. Strong hydrogen bonding effects have been measured recently by Coward (2010) [17] in nonacosanol wax using FTIR spectroscopy. The effects on the crystal structure should be even

Review of "Contact Mechanics and Friction: Physical Principles and Applications" by Valentin L. Popov

• Stanislav N. Gorb

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 57–58, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.7

• science; structural mechanics; system dynamics; tribology; Popov, V. L. Contact Mechanics and Friction: Physical Principles and Applications, 1st ed. Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010. XV, 362 pages, ISBN 978-3-642-10802-0 (Print), 978-3-642-10803-7 (Online). doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10803-7 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

Tip-sample interactions on graphite studied using the wavelet transform

• Giovanna Malegori and
• Gabriele Ferrini

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 172–181, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.21

The description of friction of silicon MEMS with surface roughness: virtues and limitations of a stochastic Prandtl–Tomlinson model and the simulation of vibration-induced friction reduction

• W. Merlijn van Spengen,
• Viviane Turq and
• Joost W. M. Frenken

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 163–171, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.20

• . J.; Turq, V.; Frenken, J. W. M. J. Adhes. Sci. Technol. 2010, 24, 2669–2680.] The major features of the experiment shown in Figure 8, including the amplitude reduction and the visibility of the modulation signal in the lateral force, are replicated in a simulation with the stochastic Prandtl

A collisional model for AFM manipulation of rigid nanoparticles

• Enrico Gnecco

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 158–162, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.19

Scanning probe microscopy and related methods

• Ernst Meyer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 155–157, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.18

• the colleagues for their excellent contributions. Ernst Meyer Basel, December 2010 Scanning probe microscopy: A large familiy of microscopes, which have in common that they use local probes to characterize surfaces. AFM: Atomic Force MicroscopySTM: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, PDM: Phase Detection

Magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical NMR-based diagnostics

• Huilin Shao,
• Tae-Jong Yoon,
• Monty Liong,
• Ralph Weissleder and
• Hakho Lee

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 142–154, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.17

• . (Reproduced with permission from [53]. Copyright 2010 Nature Publishing Group.) Miniaturized devices developed for DMR biosensing. (a) The first-generation miniaturized device to measure relaxation times of biological samples consists of an array of microcoils for NMR measurements, microfluidic networks for

• [19]. Copyright 2010 IEEE.) DMR detection of proteins and enzyme activities with MRSw sensors. (a) Detection of avidin. Biotinylated MNPs were incubated with different amounts of avidin to cause clustering of the nanoparticles. The T2 relaxation changes were dependent on avidin concentrations. (b

Electrochemical behavior of dye-linked L-proline dehydrogenase on glassy carbon electrodes modified by multi-walled carbon nanotubes

• Haitao Zheng,
• Leyi Lin,
• Yosuke Okezaki,
• Ryushi Kawakami,
• Haruhiko Sakuraba,
• Toshihisa Ohshima,
• Keiichi Takagi and
• Shin-ichiro Suye

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 135–141, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.16

Low-temperature solution growth of ZnO nanotube arrays

• Ki-Woong Chae,
• Qifeng Zhang,
• Jeong Seog Kim,
• Yoon-Ha Jeong and
• Guozhong Cao

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 128–134, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.15

Precursor concentration and temperature controlled formation of polyvinyl alcohol-capped CdSe-quantum dots

• Chetan P. Shah,
• Madhabchandra Rath,
• Manmohan Kumar and
• Parma N. Bajaj

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 119–127, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.14

Ultrafine metallic Fe nanoparticles: synthesis, structure and magnetism

• Olivier Margeat,
• Marc Respaud,
• Catherine Amiens,
• Pierre Lecante and
• Bruno Chaudret

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 108–118, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.13

Magnetic coupling mechanisms in particle/thin film composite systems

• Giovanni A. Badini Confalonieri,
• Philipp Szary,
• Durgamadhab Mishra,
• Maria J. Benitez,
• Mathias Feyen,
• An Hui Lu,
• Leonardo Agudo,
• Gunther Eggeler,
• Oleg Petracic and
• Hartmut Zabel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 101–107, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.12

Fabrication and spectroscopic studies on highly luminescent CdSe/CdS nanorod polymer composites

• Jana Bomm,
• Andreas Büchtemann,
• Angela Fiore,
• Liberato Manna,
• James H. Nelson,
• Diana Hill and
• Wilfried G. J. H. M. van Sark

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 94–100, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.11