Nanoscale & Nanoscale Advances Blog

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Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles electrostatically coupled with photosensitizers for near-infrared-triggered photodynamic therapy
Meng Wang, Zhuo Chen, Wei Zheng, Haomiao Zhu, Shan Lu, En Ma, Datao Tu, Shanyong Zhou, Mingdong Huang and Xueyuan Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01826E, Paper

Current transport in graphene/AlGaN/GaN vertical heterostructures probed at nanoscale
Gabriele Fisichella, Giuseppe Greco, Fabrizio Roccaforte and Filippo Giannazzo
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01150C, Paper

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3-Dimensional atomic scale structure of the ionic liquid–graphite interface elucidated by AM-AFM and quantum chemical simulations
Alister J. Page, Aaron Elbourne, Ryan Stefanovic, Matthew A. Addicoat, Gregory G. Warr, Kislon Voïtchovsky and Rob Atkin
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01219D, Paper

An electrospun nanowire-based triboelectric nanogenerator and its application in a fully self-powered UV detector
Youbin Zheng, Li Cheng, Miaomiao Yuan, Zhe Wang, Lu Zhang, Yong Qin and Tao Jing
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01934B, Communication

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Facile synthesis of intense green light emitting LiGdF4:Yb,Er-based upconversion bipyramidal nanocrystals and their polymer composites
Hyejin Na, Jong Seok Jeong, Hye Jung Chang, Hyun You Kim, Kyoungja Woo, Kipil Lim, K. Andre Mkhoyan and Ho Seong Jang
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00857J, Paper

Can small hydrophobic gold nanoparticles inhibit β2-microglobulin fibrillation?
Giorgia Brancolini, Dimitrios Toroz and Stefano Corni
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01514B, Paper

Directional and enhanced spontaneous emission with a corrugated metal probe
Hongming Shen, Guowei Lu, Yingbo He, Yuqing Cheng, Haitao Liu and Qihuang Gong
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01037J, Paper

A mechanical and electrical transistor structure (METS) with a sub-2 nm nanogap for effective voltage scaling
Byung-Hyun Lee, Dong-Il Moon, HyunJae Jang, Chang-Hoon Kim, Myeong-Lok Seol, Ji-Min Choi, Dong-Il Lee, Min-Wu Kim, Jun-Bo Yoon and Yang-Kyu Choi
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR06251A, Communication

Asymmetrically-gated graphene self-switching diodes as negative differential resistance devices
Feras Al-Dirini, Faruque M. Hossain, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas and Efstratios Skafidas
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR00112E, Paper

Phase transition of a perovskite strongly coupled to the vacuum field
Shaojun Wang, Arkadiusz Mika, James A. Hutchison, Cyriaque Genet, Abdelaziz Jouaiti, Mir Wais Hosseini and Thomas W. Ebbesen
DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01971G, Communication