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Nanomaterials, Volume 9, Issue 1

January 2019 - 131 articles

Cover Story: Difficulties in characterizing nanomaterials as nanoparticles extend beyond the definition of a single size threshold. Determining the accurate size of nanoparticles is challenging. This work describes the unexpected consequence of measurement protocols, called operational aspects, on the size of nanoparticles. The cover figure presents two challenges: the denaturation of nanoparticles of silver during atomic force microscopy imaging and the presence of non-homogeneous populations of PVP-coated silver nanoparticles observed by transmission electron microscopy. Other artefacts and limitations in biophysical techniques are described in the article, and practical suggestions are compiled in the supplementary materials. View this paper.
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Articles (131)

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,360 Views
18 Pages

Tin, The Enabler—Hydrogen Diffusion into Ruthenium

  • Chidozie Onwudinanti,
  • Ionuţ Tranca,
  • Thomas Morgan and
  • Shuxia Tao

21 January 2019

Hydrogen interaction with ruthenium is of particular importance for the ruthenium-capped multilayer reflectors used in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. Hydrogen causes blistering, which leads to a loss of reflectivity. This problem is aggravate...

  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
8,983 Views
24 Pages

21 January 2019

At the onset of cancer, specific biomarkers get elevated or modified in body fluids or tissues. Early diagnosis of these biomarkers can greatly improve the survival rate or facilitate effective treatment with different modalities. Potential nanomater...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,706 Views
10 Pages

Nitrogen-Doped Hierarchically Porous Carbons Derived from Polybenzoxazine for Enhanced Supercapacitor Performance

  • Yanhui Wang,
  • Liyan Dong,
  • Guiping Lai,
  • Meng Wei,
  • Xingbi Jiang and
  • Lizhong Bai

21 January 2019

Nitrogen-doped hierarchically porous carbons (HPCs), which are synthesized from benzoxazine resins, were successfully prepared following the processes of polymerization, carbonization, and potassium hydroxide (KOH) activation. As the key factor, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
8,046 Views
25 Pages

20 January 2019

Thin-film nanocomposite membranes (TFNs) are a recent class of materials that use nanoparticles to provide improvements over traditional thin-film composite (TFC) reverse osmosis membranes by addressing various design challenges, e.g., low flux for b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,650 Views
14 Pages

Sol-gel Syntheses of Photocatalysts for the Removal of Pharmaceutical Products in Water

  • Artium Belet,
  • Cédric Wolfs,
  • Julien G. Mahy,
  • Dirk Poelman,
  • Christelle Vreuls,
  • Nathalie Gillard and
  • Stéphanie D. Lambert

20 January 2019

A screening study on seven photocatalysts was performed to identify the best candidate for pharmaceutical products degradation in water. Photocatalysts were deposited as thin films through a sol-gel process and subsequent dip-coating on glass slides....

  • Article
  • Open Access
104 Citations
7,452 Views
17 Pages

Fabrication and Highly Efficient Dye Removal Characterization of Beta-Cyclodextrin-Based Composite Polymer Fibers by Electrospinning

  • Rong Guo,
  • Ran Wang,
  • Juanjuan Yin,
  • Tifeng Jiao,
  • Haiming Huang,
  • Xinmei Zhao,
  • Lexin Zhang,
  • Qing Li,
  • Jingxin Zhou and
  • Qiuming Peng

20 January 2019

Dye wastewater is one of the most important problems to be faced and solved in wastewater treatment. However, the treatment cannot be single and simple adsorption due to the complexity of dye species. In this work, we prepared novel composite fiber a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,918 Views
14 Pages

20 January 2019

Designing and realizing various magnetization textures in magnetic nanostructures are essential for developing novel magnetic nanodevices in the modern information industry. Among all these textures, planar transverse domain walls (pTDWs) are the sim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
10,446 Views
8 Pages

Enhanced Efficiency of MAPbI3 Perovskite Solar Cells with FAPbX3 Perovskite Quantum Dots

  • Lung-Chien Chen,
  • Ching-Ho Tien,
  • Zong-Liang Tseng and
  • Jun-Hao Ruan

19 January 2019

We describe a method to enhance power conversion efficiency (PCE) of MAPbI3 perovskite solar cell by inserting a FAPbX3 perovskite quantum dots (QD-FAPbX3) layer. The MAPbI3 and QD-FAPbX3 layers were prepared using a simple, rapid spin-coating method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,727 Views
13 Pages

Impaired Liver Size and Compromised Neurobehavioral Activity are Elicited by Chitosan Nanoparticles in the Zebrafish Embryo Model

  • Haissam Abou-Saleh,
  • Nadin Younes,
  • Kashif Rasool,
  • Manaf H. Younis,
  • Rafael M. Prieto,
  • Hadi M. Yassine,
  • Khaled A. Mahmoud,
  • Gianfranco Pintus and
  • Gheyath K. Nasrallah

19 January 2019

The use of chitosan nanoparticles (ChNPs) in various biological and environmental applications is attracting great interest. However, potential side effects related to ChNP toxicity remain the major limitation hampering their wide application. For th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,963 Views
21 Pages

Titania Nanotubes/Hydroxyapatite Nanocomposites Produced with the Use of the Atomic Layer Deposition Technique: Estimation of Bioactivity and Nanomechanical Properties

  • Aleksandra Radtke,
  • Michalina Ehlert,
  • Tomasz Jędrzejewski,
  • Beata Sadowska,
  • Marzena Więckowska-Szakiel,
  • Jani Holopainen,
  • Mikko Ritala,
  • Markku Leskelä,
  • Michał Bartmański and
  • Marek Szkodo
  • + 1 author

19 January 2019

Titanium dioxide nanotubes/hydroxyapatite nanocomposites were produced on a titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V/TNT/HA) and studied as a biocompatible coating for an implant surface modification. As a novel approach for this type of nanocomposite fabrication, th...

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