Nanoscale & Nanoscale Advances Blog

Mesoporous silica nanoparticles as antigen carriers and adjuvants for vaccine delivery
Karishma T. Mody, Amirali Popat, Donna Mahony, Antonino S. Cavallaro, Chengzhong Yu and Neena Mitter
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00357D, Review Article

Impurity doping: a novel strategy for controllable synthesis of functional lanthanide nanomaterials
Daqin Chen and Yuansheng Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00368J, Feature Article

Long-life and high-rate Li3V2(PO4)3/C nanosphere cathode materials with three-dimensional continuous electron pathways
Liqiang Mai, Shuo Li, Yifan Dong, Yunlong Zhao, Yanzhu Luo and Hongmei Xu
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01490H, Paper

Identification of vibrational signatures from short chains of interlinked molecule–nanoparticle junctions obtained by inelastic electron tunnelling spectroscopy
S. H. M. Jafri, H. Löfås, J. Fransson, T. Blom, A. Grigoriev, A. Wallner, R. Ahuja, H. Ottosson and K. Leifer
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00505D, Communication

Phase transformation and thermoelectric properties of bismuth-telluride nanowires
Cheng-Lun Hsin, Matthew Wingert, Chun-Wei Huang, Hua Guo, Ten-Jen Shih, Joonki Suh, Kevin Wang, Junqiao Wu, Wen-Wei Wu and Renkun Chen
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00876B, Communication

Simultaneous electrical and plasmonic monitoring of potential induced ion adsorption on metal nanowire arrays
Robert MacKenzie, Corrado Fraschina, Bernd Dielacher, Takumi Sannomiya, Andreas B. Dahlin and Janos Vörös
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR34172K, Paper

The unusual effect of AgNO3 on the growth of Au nanostructures and their catalytic performance
Xingliang Li, Yun Yang, Guangju Zhou, Shuhua Han, Wenfang Wang, Lijie Zhang, Wei Chen, Chao Zou and Shaoming Huang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00603D, Paper

High-energy supercapacitors based on hierarchical porous carbon with an ultrahigh ion-accessible surface area in ionic liquid electrolytes
Hui Zhong, Fei Xu, Zenghui Li, Ruowen Fu and Dingcai Wu
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00738C, Communication

Seawater-driven magnesium based Janus micromotors for environmental remediation
Wei Gao, Xiaomiao Feng, Allen Pei, Yonge Gu, Jinxing Li and Joseph Wang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR01458D, Communication

An associative capacitive network based on nanoscale complementary resistive switches for memory-intensive computing
Omid Kavehei, Eike Linn, Lutz Nielen, Stefan Tappertzhofen, Efstratios Skafidas, Ilia Valov and Rainer Waser
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00535F, Paper

Controlled 3D-coating of the pores of highly ordered mesoporous antiferromagnetic Co3O4 replicas with ferrimagnetic FexCo3−xO4 nanolayers
Eva Pellicer, Moisés Cabo, Alberto López-Ortega, Marta Estrader, Lluís Yedra, Sònia Estradé, Francesca Peiró, Zineb Saghi, Paul Midgley, Emma Rossinyol, Igor V. Golosovsky, Alvaro Mayoral, Joan D. Prades, Santiago Suriñach, Maria Dolors Baró, Jordi Sort and Josep Nogués
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00989K, Paper

“Thiolated gold nanoclusters form a universe of their own”, writes De-en Jiang in the first line of his recent feature article in this field. Jiang’s article provides a fascinating tour through this ever-expanding cosmos from the point of view of a computational chemist.

A great challenge for computational chemists is to predict the most stable structure for a thiolated gold nanocluster with a given composition. There are just a few experimentally resolved structures and these provide important hints for the structures of many identified compositions that have yet to be crystallised or structurally determined. Jiang describes computational approached to predict these structures, in particular the powerful “staple hypothesis”, which can help predict how the staple motifs are arranged on the core surface.

It is not fair to say that this article is simply an intergalactic tour. Jiang also further pushes the boundaries of the Universe in his article by presenting some new low-energy structures for the first time. He also discusses some imaginative ideas for future cosmic pioneering.

Explore the thiolated gold nanocluster universe with De-en Jiang today:

The expanding universe of thiolated gold nanoclusters and beyond
De-en Jiang
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR34192E

Scientists from Taiwan and Germany report a strong magnetic enhancement in self-assembled multiferroic-ferrimagnetic nanostructures in their recent Nanoscale paper.

The group found that the ordered magnetic moment of Co²⁺ ions was significantly greater in CoFe₂O₄ nano-pillars embedded in multiferroic BiFeO₃ matrices compared to CoFe₂O₄ nano-pillars embedded in SrTiO₃ matrices or CoFe₂O₄– BiFeO₃ thin films.

Their study clearly indicates that the high interface-to-volume ratio of vertical nanostructures creates a strong ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic magnetic coupling via an interface. The study is important for the continuing pursuit for practical room-temperature multiferroic materials for high-performance oxide-based devices.

Read this HOT article today:

Strong magnetic enhancement in self-assembled multiferroic-ferrimagnetic nanostructures
Ying-Jiun Chen, Ying-Hui Hsieh, Sheng-Chieh Liao, Zhiwei Hu, Meng-Jie Huang, Wei-Cheng Kuo, Yi-Ying Chin, Tzeng-Ming Uen, Jenh-Yih Juang, Chih-Huang Lai, Hong-Ji Lin, Chien-Te Chen and Ying-Hao Chu
DOI: 10.1039/C3NR00104K