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Gold Nanoparticles Functionalized with a Fragment of the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule L1 Stimulate L1-Mediated Functions

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02707D, Paper
Florian Schulz, David Lutz, Norman Rusche, Neus G. Bastus, Martin Stieben, Michael Holtig, Florian Gruner, Horst Weller, Melitta Schachner, Tobias Vossmeyer, Gabriele Loers
The neural cell adhesion molecule L1 is involved in nervous system development and promotes regeneration in animal models of acute and chronic injury of the adult nervous system. To translate...
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Controllable Synthesis of Metal Selenide Heterostructures Mediated by Ag2Se Nanocrystals Acting as Catalysts

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03601D, Paper
Jiangcong Zhou, Feng Huang, Ju Xu, Yuansheng Wang
Ag2Se nanoparticles are demonstrated to be a novel catalyst for solution growth of metal selenide multisegment heterostructures.
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Nanoscale structural features determined by AFM for single virus particles

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02706F, Paper
Shu-wen W. Chen, Michael Odorico, Matthieu Meillan, Luc Vellutini, Jean-Marie Teulon, Pierre Parot, Bernard Bennetau, Jean-Luc Pellequer
Nanoscale-size structural features extracted from a single virus particle image obtained by AFM. A dedicated image processing is able to identify single subunits without requiring multiple images averaging.
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Inorganic Chemistry in a Nanoreactor: Au-TiO2 Nanocomposites by Photolysis of a Single-Source Precursor in Miniemulsion

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03977C, Paper
Niels Alexander Heutz, Paolo Dolcet, Alexander Birkner, Maurizio Casarin, Klaus Merz, Stefano Gialanella, Silvia Gross
An original synthetic route, based on the combination of a single-source precursor, UV-photodegradation and inverse w/o miniemulsion, is used to prepare Au nanoparticles (NPs) dispersed on titania. The source of...
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Colloidal chemically fabricated ZnO:Cu based photodetector with extended UV-visible detection waveband

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01979A, Communication
Liang Hu, Liping Zhu, Haiping He, Yanmin Guo, Guoyao Pan, Jie Jiang, Yizheng Jin, Luwei Sun, Zhizhen Ye
A low-cost and highly-efficient ZnO:Cu based photodetector aiming at UV-visible light range.
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Excellent surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) based on AgFeO2 semiconductor nanoparticles

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03460G, Paper
Zhijie Shi, Tao Wang, Haiyang Lin, Xiuhua Wang, JuanJuan Ding, Mingwang Shao
AgFeO2 nanoparticle substrates exhibited high SERS activity with EF of 510000, due to the orderly orientation under external magnetic field.
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Nanoscale Resistive Switching Devices: Mechanisms and Modeling

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03472K, Review Article
Wei Lu, Yuchao Yang
This article reviews the different physical processes behind resistive switching (memristive) phenomena and current experimental and modeling efforts.
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Graphene-Platinum Nanohybrid as a Robust and Low-cost Counter Electrode for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03219A, Paper
Van-Duong Dao, Nguen Thi Quynh Hoa, Liudmila L. Larina, Joong-Kee Lee, Ho-Suk Choi
Graphene-platinum nanohybrids exhibit robust stability as well as ultrahigh electrochemical activity in dye-sensitized solar cells using just a small amount of platinum, owing to a repair of structural damage of graphene as well as chemical bonding between platinum and graphene.
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Assessing the Relevance of Building Block Crystallinity for Tuning the Stiffness of Gold Nanocrystal Superlattices

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03335J, Communication
Marie-paule Pileni, Cong Yan, Herve Portales, Goubet Nicolas, Imad Arfaoui, Sergey Sirotkin, Alain Mermet
The stiffness of gold nanocrystals (NCs) superlattices can be tuned upon change in relative amounts of single and polycrystalline NCs.
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Fluorescence Origin and Spectral Broadening Mechanism in Atomically Precise Au8 Nanoclusters

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03015F, Paper
Xiaoming Wen, Pyng Yu, Yon-Rui Toh, Xiaoqian Ma, Shujuan Huang, Jau Tang
Super-small Au8 nanoclusters have been shown great potential to be used in bioimaging, biosensors and catalysis. Understanding the fluorescence origin and the spectral broadening mechanism is of critical importance for...
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Enhancing Thermopower and Hole Mobility in Bulk p-type Half-Heuslers using Full-Heusler nanostructures

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03145D, Paper
Pranati Sahoo, Yuanfeng Liu, Julien P A Makongo, Xian-li Su, Sung Joo Kim, Nathan Takas, Hang Chi, Ctirad Uher, Xiaoqing Pan, Pierre F. P. Poudeu
Atomic scale band structure engineering of a p-type hH matrix using fH inclusions strongly boosts the thermopower of the resulting nanocomposites.
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Carbon doping of InSb nanowires for high-performance p-channel field-effect-transistors

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03080F, Paper
Zaixing Yang, Ning Han, Fengyun Wang, Ho-Yuen Cheung, Xiaoling Shi, Sen-Po Yip, T. F. Hung, Min Hyung Lee, Chun-Yuen Wong, Johnny C Ho
Due to the unique physical properties, small bandgap III-V semiconductor nanowires such as InAs and InSb have been extensively studied for the next-generation high-speed and high-frequency electronics. However, further CMOS...
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Half-metallicity of kagome spin lattice: The case of manganese bis-dithiolene monolayer

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03323F, Paper
Mingwen Zhao, Aizhu Wang, Xiaoming Zhang
The spin ordering in Kagome lattices has long been studied in searching for real materials with a spin-liquid ground state. The synthesis of nickel bis-dichiolene complex (Ni3C12S12) nanosheet (Kambe, T.;...
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Highly bright multicolor tunable ultrasmall [small beta]-Na(Y,Gd)F4:Ce,Tb,Eu/[small beta]-NaYF4 core/shell nanocrystals

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Nanoscale, 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02591H, Paper
Su Yeon Kim, Kyoungja Woo, Kipil Lim, Kwangyeol Lee, Ho Seong Jang
Sub-10 nm [small beta]-Na(Y,Gd)F4:Ce,Tb,Eu/[small beta]-NaYF4 core/shell nanocrystals show highly bright and multicolor emission under a single wavelength excitation via energy transfer of Ce3+ [rightward arrow] Gd3+ [rightward arrow] Tb3+ [rightward arrow] Eu3+ and the nanoparticle-polymer composites show high transparency and multicolor tunability.
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Intrinsic electronic and transport properties of graphyne sheets and nanoribbons

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Nanoscale, 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03167E, Paper
Wenzhi Wu, Wanlin Guo, Xiao Cheng Zeng
Various 2D graphyne sheets and nanoribbons exhibit novel electronic transport properties such as symmetry-dependent transport and negative differential resistance behavior.
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Ag nanocluster functionalized glasses for efficient photonic conversion in light sources, solar cells and flexible screen monitors

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Nanoscale, 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02798H, Review Article
A. S. Kuznetsov, V. K. Tikhomirov, M. V. Shestakov, V. V. Moshchalkov
We review recent progress in the field of luminescent Ag nanoclusters for the efficient photonic conversion, including white light generation.
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Microscopic characterisation of suspended graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition

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Nanoscale, 2013, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02386A, Paper
Luca Bignardi, Willem F. van Dorp, Stefano Gottardi, Oleksii Ivashenko, Pavel Dudin, Alexei Barinov, Jeff Th. M. De Hosson, Meike Stohr, Petra Rudolf
CVD-grown graphene is a good candidate for ultrathin single-crystalline TEM membranes. A full characterisation of the electronic and structural features of CVD-grown suspended graphene is provided.
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Improved lithium storage properties of electrospun TiO2 with tunable morphology: from porous anatase to necklace rutile

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02819D, Paper
Yang Yang, Haiying Wang, Qiwen Zhou, Mengqi Kong, Haitao Ye, Gang Yang
Three-dimensional TiO2 with tunable morphology and crystalline phase were successfully prepared by electrospinning technique and subsequent annealing. Porous-shaped anatase TiO2, clustered-shaped anatase TiO2, hierachical-shaped rutile (minor) TiO2 and nano-necklace rutile...
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Synthesis of nanostructured materials in inverse miniemulsions and their applications

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR03190J, Review Article
Zhihai Cao, Ulrich Ziener
Polymeric nanogels, inorganic nanoparticles, and organic-inorganic hybrid nanoparticles can be prepared via the inverse miniemulsion technique. Hydrophilic functional cargos, such as proteins, DNA, and macromolecular fluoresceins, may be conveniently encapsulated...
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Robust, specific ratiometric biosensing using a copper-free clicked quantum dot-DNA aptamer sensor

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Nanoscale, 2013, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02897F, Paper
Haiyan Zhang, Guoqiang Feng, Yuan Guo, Dejian Zhou
We report herein the successful preparation of a compact, functional CdSe/ZnS core/shell quantum dot (QD)-DNA conjugate via the highly efficient copper-free "click chemistry" (CFCC) between a dihydro-lipoic acid-polyethylene glycol-azide (DHLA-PEG-N3)...
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