Materials Proceedings, Volume 14, Issue 1

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We have developed a breakthrough strategy for predictive physicochemical performance improvement and unlocking new functionalities of additively manufactured extreme lattice metamaterials. This strategy is being implemented via predictive fine-tuning...

Graphene oxide (GO) has attracted significant attention due to its unique optical properties and tunable surface chemistry, making it an excellent platform for optical sensing applications. Combining GO with metallic nanoparticles allows for the fabr...

Recycling plant-based materials for various applications not only reduces the harm to the environment but also presents an excellent green source for nanomaterial synthesis. Being chiral and biodegradable makes cellulose, which is an organic polymer,...

The objective of our work was to study the behavior of glass that is subjected to electronic bombing. In the context of this work, we first studied theoretically the establishment of electrons in a material—in this case, glass. We postponed the...

One of the most interesting objects in terms of use in biomedicine are hybrid structures based on magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) and NPs of noble metals, which make it possible to simultaneously introduce two types of ligands onto the surface of NPs fo...

Curcumin, an active ingredient in turmeric, has various biological activities, but its low solubility and limited bioavailability hinder its therapeutic use. To address this, we created dual pH- and thermo-sensitive nanogels (NGs) from poly-N-isoprop...

Tungsten oxide (WO₃) and zinc oxide (ZnO) are n-type semiconductors with numerous applications in photocatalysis. The objective of this study was to synthesize and characterize different types of nanostructures (WO₃, WO₃-Mo, TiO₂, and TiO₂-ZnO) for a...

Considering the snowballing of electronic devices with the widespread usage of miniaturized energy storage gadgets, the need for sustainable, flexible, lightweight, and higher-power-density devices to supplement the global fossil fuel challenges and...

The formation of CaSi₂ films on Si(111) with the molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) of CaF₂ under fast electron-beam irradiation was investigated. The method of a high-planarity CaSi₂ film synthesis assisted by electron-beam irradiation was developed. We c...

The development of bacterial resistance toward existing antibiotics is a universal problem for human and animal health as well as for food security. In an attempt to overcome this problem, nanotechnology has contributed in the form of nanoformulation...

Obtaining the characteristics of the dispersions of synthesized nanoparticles such as concentration and particle size is an important task in the nanotechnology and biomedicine industries and in many other fields. A rapidly developing method for such...

It was shown that to obtain reverse microemulsions in lecithin–oleic acid–vaseline oil–vegetable oil–essential oil–water systems, oil from the tropical plant gac (Momordica cochinchinensis) and turmeric essential oil (Cu...

Nanotechnology is used today in a wide range of industries. Weakly water-soluble medications have better solubility and bioavailability when delivered by nano-specific drug delivery methods, such as nanocrystals. Another name for ziprasidone is 5-[2-...

Titania nanosheets (TNS) represent 2D photocatalytic material, which can strongly bind with metal nanoparticles, and, therefore, materials based on it are promising in the development of reusable substrates for reproducible SERS. In the present resea...

The aim of this paper was to exactly quantify the amount of pure ketoprofen within a pharmaceutical by a newly developed ultraviolet (UV) spectrophotometric method. The maximum absorption wavelength was determined to be λ = 254 nm for a ketopr...

Innovative drug delivery systems show how pharmaceuticals are administered to the site of action in order to produce the therapeutic effect. Fungal infections are a problem today on a global scale. There is no medical cover-up in the world regarding...

In a world of miniaturized electronics, there is a rapidly increasing need for reliable, efficient, and compact energy storage systems with low-loss dielectrics. To address this need, this work proposes the development of compact, micro-capacitive en...

A frequent type of hair loss that affects both men and women, androgenetic alopecia is indicated by the gradual miniaturization of hair follicles, which results in thinner and shorter hair growth cycles. Despite the availability of various treatment...

Petroleum-derived polymers, such as polyethylene and polypropylene, are commonly used in food packing industries knowing the fact that these polymers cause serious threats to the ecosystem. Therefore, the development of low-cost, environmentally frie...

In recent decades, the pharmaceutical industry has shown great interest in new products for drug delivery, since studies with drug nanocarriers have evidenced the application potential of these systems. A relatively new strategy for nano-drug deliver...

This study investigates the electronic properties of a single layer of the novel Janus material GeSnS2 using density functional theory. By utilizing the hybrid functional HSE06 in addition to the standard PBE approximation, the study aims to obtain a...

This work discusses the design of highly stretchable, piezoresistive, flexible sensors obtained by electrospun nanofibers collected on rotating flexible wires. The resulting nanostructured sensors have a fiber-shape due to the inner plastic core bein...

In this work, we focused on Electrospray (ES) and Ultrasonic Spray Coating (USC) as two promising and innovative fabrication techniques for the optimisation of carbon electrode surfaces to be employed in Bio-Electrochemical Systems. We performed, on...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are one of the most remarkable nanomaterials. Due to their small size, these NPs can cross the blood–brain barrier making them good candidates for the treatment of diseases related to the central nervous system. The m...

Bismuth vanadate (BiVO₄) has been investigated as a photocatalyst of great interest due to its ability to harvest photons efficiently in the visible spectral region. In addition, powdered BiVO₄ shows high photochemical stability, good dispersibility,...

A skin ailment known as psoriasis, which affects 2–5% of people worldwide, is characterised by excessive keratinocyte proliferation and abnormal differentiation. Calcipotriene, a synthetic vitamin D analogue, is the first-line treatment for pso...

In the graphic industry, thermochromic inks are used primarily in the development of “smart” packaging for different applications, such as indicators of the product’s current temperature or an out-of-boundary temperature reading. Du...

In this work, I filled single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with nickelocene and cobaltocene molecules. I investigated the inner growth of carbon nanotubes on metallic and metal carbide catalysts. Raman spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectrosco...

Self-sensing cementitious composites include the use of conductive materials which have important capabilities in monitoring structural health. Graphene has been widely used to modify cementitious composites to get self-sensing properties due to its...

Nanostructured plasmonic surfaces have been the subject of many biosensing applications exploiting surface-enhanced fluorescence in the last few years. For this reason, we investigated the refractive index dependence of the coupling mechanism between...

Gemfibrozil is a benzene derivative of valeric acid that belongs to the class of medications known as fibrates. Its chemical name is 5-(2,5 dimethylphenoxy)-2,2-dimethylpentanoic acid. It is the treatment of choice in clinical settings for hyperlipid...

Periodontitis is an inflammatory infection caused by bacterial plaque accumulation that affects the periodontal tissues supporting the teeth. Current treatments lack bioactive signals to induce tissue repair and coordinated regeneration of all the pe...

Plasmonic nanostructures represent a suitable platform for the detection of biomolecule interactions. Their surface functionalization can be performed through different strategies. Optimal thickness, homogeneity, and hydrophilicity of the functional...

In this study, the state of catalysts is revealed during the growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) inside metallocene-filled SWCNTs. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy were used to study the kinetics o...

The Myc transcription factor and its associated Max protein have essential roles in the development of several types of cancers, including prostate cancer. They dimerize into a Myc–Max heterodimer and bind to DNA sequences known as enhancer box...

A straightforward, non-toxic, economical, and environmentally safe method for nanoparticle (NP) synthesis is NP biosynthesis. An aqueous extract of the green husk of Juglans regia (J. regia) was used to produce titanium dioxide NPs (TiO₂ NPs) in this...

Obeticholic acid (OCA), also known as 6alpha-ethyl-3alpha,7alpha-dihydroxy-5-cholon-24-oic acid, is a semi-synthetic derivative of chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA, 3alpha,7alpha, dihydroxy-5-cholon-24-oic acid), a primary bile acid that is produced in th...

Here, we report the study of several phosphine tellurides in the preparation of HgTe CQDs. The efficient synthesis and characterization of HgTe CQDs were developed for the first time by applying Tris(dimethylamino)phosphine telluride in THF (TDMAPTe/...

The thermal dynamics of a spherical gold nanoparticle under a femtosecond laser burst irradiation at 550 nm wavelength, 100-fs pulse duration, and F = 1 J/m² laser fluence are investigated numerically. A unique spherical gold nanoparticle immersed in...

This paper proposes a model for the dependence of heat capacity of thin metal films on the temperature and on the number of atomic layers in these films directly. Model representations are based on the principles of statistical physics for solids and...

In this paper, the authors present the results of modeling the movement of three methane molecules into a closed carbon nanotube. The main approach in this work is to model the interaction between methane molecules and the structure of a nanocapsule,...

Bulk titanium and CoCr are the most common metals for use in orthopedic implants, but there are significant advantages in alternative substrates. Research in the last decade has focused on various alternatives; however, these materials are hindered b...

The preparation of graphene foams via laser pyrolysis of polyimides has gained success due to its ease and speed of processing. Established applications of laser-induced graphene (LIG) involve micro-supercapacitors, batteries, sensors, and water trea...

N-doped titanium dioxide (N/TiO₂) nanomaterials were successfully prepared using titanium butoxide and guanidinium chloride using the simple sol-gel method. The significance of the annealing gas environment (air, argon, or nitrogen) on their physicoc...

The paper considers the formative processes of chiral nano- and microparticles in solutions of D-aminoglucan chitosan (CS) in L- and D-aspartic acid (AspA) by means of the counterionic condensation of components and the stabilization of particles by...

The development of calcium phosphate cement (CaPC) has been regarded as a significant advance in the field of bone defect reconstruction. This patent analysis-based research concerns patent documents with an active legal status until 2022. The state...

In a short period, Perovskite solar cell (PSC) technology gained high efficiency and broad attention because of its key enabling physical and morphological features. One of the main obstacles to the PSC industrialization and commercialization deals w...

The nanoparticles are composed of tens or hundreds of atoms or molecules with different sizes and morphologies (amorphous, crystalline, spherical, needle-shaped, etc.). Most commercially used nanoparticles are in the form of dry powder or liquid. Of...

In this work, we report the study of resizing of lead chalcogenide quantum dots, both PbS and PbSe, in the presence of the oleylamine/oleic acid mixture. We demonstrate that the resizing of lead chalcogenide nanocrystals could be performed in aprotic...