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Nanomaterials, Volume 10, Issue 5

May 2020 - 193 articles

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Cover Story: Suspended 3 × 3 × 0.5 µm3 silicon chips were fabricated with distinct physical morphologies including micrometric, micro- and nanometric, and solely nanometric features. The micro- and nanometric combination was produced by random nanowires grown on silicon. The nanometric chips were formed with self-sustaining structures of entangled nanowires. The chips were co-cultured in HeLa cells to investigate their toxicity and the effect of the morphology during cell internalization. Cell viability was demonstrated and results showed initial cell interaction with the chip nanometric features before internalization. Internalized chips with integrated nanowires may provide means of delivery into the cytosol. View this paper.

Articles (193)

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,885 Views
12 Pages

The Antibacterial Effect of Silver Nanoparticles on Staphylococcus Epidermidis Strains with Different Biofilm-Forming Ability

  • Denis Swolana,
  • Małgorzata Kępa,
  • Danuta Idzik,
  • Arkadiusz Dziedzic,
  • Agata Kabała-Dzik,
  • Tomasz J. Wąsik and
  • Robert D. Wojtyczka

Among many infectious diseases, infections caused by pathogens of Staphylococcus species exert a substantial influence upon human health, mainly due to their continuous presence on human skin and mucous membranes. For that reason, an intensive search...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,042 Views
17 Pages

Graphene Decorated Zinc Oxide and Curcumin to Disinfect the Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

  • Mohammad Oves,
  • Mohd. Ahmar Rauf,
  • Mohammad Omaish Ansari,
  • Aftab Aslam Parwaz Khan,
  • Huda A Qari,
  • Mohamed F. Alajmi,
  • Samaresh Sau and
  • Arun K Iyer

Sometimes, life-threatening infections are initiated by the biofilm formation facilitated at the infection site by the drug-resistant bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. The aggregation of the same type of bacteria leads to biofilm formation on the delic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,299 Views
14 Pages

TiO2–Bi2O3 composite rods were synthesized by combining hydrothermal growth of rutile TiO2 rod templates and sputtering deposition of Bi2O3 thin films. The TiO2–Bi2O3 composite rods with β-Bi2O3 phase and α/β-Bi2O3 dual-ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,679 Views
16 Pages

The Structural, Electronic, and Optical Properties of Ge/Si Quantum Wells: Lasing at a Wavelength of 1550 nm

  • Hongqiang Li,
  • Jianing Wang,
  • Jinjun Bai,
  • Shanshan Zhang,
  • Sai Zhang,
  • Yaqiang Sun,
  • Qianzhi Dou,
  • Mingjun Ding,
  • Youxi Wang and
  • Dan Qu
  • + 4 authors

The realization of a fully integrated group IV electrically driven laser at room temperature is an essential issue to be solved. We introduced a novel group IV side-emitting laser at a wavelength of 1550 nm based on a 3-layer Ge/Si quantum well (QW)....

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,770 Views
18 Pages

Synthesis and Memristor Effect of a Forming-Free ZnO Nanocrystalline Films

  • Roman V. Tominov,
  • Zakhar E. Vakulov,
  • Vadim I. Avilov,
  • Daniil A. Khakhulin,
  • Aleksandr A. Fedotov,
  • Evgeny G. Zamburg,
  • Vladimir A. Smirnov and
  • Oleg A. Ageev

We experimentally investigated the effect of post-growth annealing on the morphological, structural, and electrophysical parameters of nanocrystalline ZnO films fabricated by pulsed laser deposition. The influence of post-growth annealing modes on th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,624 Views
28 Pages

Protein Supramolecular Structures: From Self-Assembly to Nanovaccine Design

  • Ximena Zottig,
  • Mélanie Côté-Cyr,
  • Dominic Arpin,
  • Denis Archambault and
  • Steve Bourgault

Life-inspired protein supramolecular assemblies have recently attracted considerable attention for the development of next-generation vaccines to fight against infectious diseases, as well as autoimmune diseases and cancer. Protein self-assembly enab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,770 Views
13 Pages

Controlling the Structures, Flexibility, Conductivity Stability of Three-Dimensional Conductive Networks of Silver Nanoparticles/Carbon-Based Nanomaterials with Nanodispersion and their Application in Wearable Electronic Sensors

  • Chih-Wei Chiu,
  • Jia-Wun Li,
  • Chen-Yang Huang,
  • Shun-Siang Yang,
  • Yu-Chian Soong,
  • Chih-Lung Lin,
  • Jimmy Chi-Min Lee,
  • William Anderson Lee Sanchez,
  • Chih-Chia Cheng and
  • Maw-Cherng Suen

This research has successfully synthesized highly flexible and conductive nanohybrid electrode films. Nanodispersion and stabilization of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were achieved via non-covalent adsorption and with an organic polymeric dispersant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
3,898 Views
10 Pages

An Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) biosensor was fabricated via an Ag nanoparticles assembly on the surface of a porous anodized aluminum (PAA) membrane. First, the Raman reporter 4-Aminothiophenol (4-ATP) and DNA (partially complementary to AFB1 aptamer) were a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
7,585 Views
21 Pages

Sustainable use of nanotechnology in crop protection requires an understanding of the plant’s life cycle, potential toxicological impacts of nanomaterials and their mechanism of action against the target pathogens. Herein, we show some properti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,597 Views
14 Pages

CuFeAl Nanocomposite Catalysts for Coal Combustion in Fluidized Bed

  • Aleksandr V. Fedorov,
  • Nikolay A. Yazykov,
  • Olga A. Bulavchenko,
  • Andrey A. Saraev,
  • Vasily V. Kaichev and
  • Vadim A. Yakovlev

A method of oil-drop granulation was suggested for the preparation of spherical CuFeAl nanocomposite catalysts. The catalysts were characterized by a set of physicochemical methods (X-ray diffraction, temperature-programmed reduction by H2, low-tempe...

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