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Vadakkaveedu Subramanian Niranjana, Sathiyanathan Ponnan, Arvind Mukundan, Arun Anand Prabu + 4 more
'Arvind Mukundan' 'Arun Anand Prabu' 'Hsiang-Chen Wang' 'Soon-Gil Yoon' 'Swathi Ippili' 'Venkatraju Jella'] Nanomaterials (NMs) have gained tremendous attention in various applications in the modern era. The most significant challenge associated with NMs is their strong propensity to aggregate. The chemical surface…
Caoimhe Robinson, VUSLAT B. JUSKA, Alan O'Riordan
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is a surface sensitive technique which examines the impedance of an electrochemical cell over a range of frequencies. By immobilising an antigen or antibody to the electrode surface, EIS shows potential for highly specific and sensitive immunosensor performance. Following an…
Karolina Glosz, Agnieszka Stolarczyk, Tomasz Jarosz
Siloxanes are adaptable species that have found extensive applications as versatile materials for functionalising various surfaces and as building blocks for polymers and hybrid organic-inorganic systems. The primary goal of this review is to report on and briefly explain the most relevant recent developments related…
Zheng Wang, Mei-chen Liu, Zhi-yuan Chang, Hui-bo Li
In this research, the graft modification mechanism of coupling agent vinyl triethoxysilane (KH-151) to macroporous silica gel was studied using a combination of multiple methods. SEM, FTIR, RAMAN, NMR and XPS were used to characterize the silica gel before and after grafting, determining the mechanism of the grafting…
Mikhail M. Simunin, Anton S. Voronin, Yurii V. Fadeev, Yurii L. Mikhlin + 6 more
'Yurii L. Mikhlin' 'Denis A. Lizunov' 'Alexandr S. Samoilo' 'Dmitrii Yu. Chirkov' 'Svetlana Yu. Voronina' 'Stas V. Khartov' 'Changwoon Nah'] Small additions of nanofiber materials make it possible to change the properties of polymers. However, the uniformity of the additive distribution and the strength of its bond…
Melissa Kosovari, Thierry Buffeteau, Laurent Thomas, Andrée-Anne Guay Bégin + 4 more
'Andrée-Anne Guay Bégin' 'Luc Vellutini' 'James McGettrick' 'Gaétan Laroche' 'Marie‐Christine Durrieu'] Biomaterial surface engineering and integrating cell-adhesive ligands are crucial in biological research and biotechnological applications. The interplay between cells and their microenvironment, influenced by…
Dafne Musino, Anne-Caroline Genix, Thomas Chaussée, Laurent Guy + 4 more
'Natalia Meissner' 'Radosław Kozak' 'Thomas Bizien' 'Julian Oberdisse'] A new method based on the combination of small-angle scattering, reverse Monte Carlo simulations, and an aggregate recognition algorithm is proposed to characterize the structure of nanoparticle suspensions in solvents and polymer nanocomposites…
Takashi Kodama, Nobuhiro Shinohara, Shih‐Wei Hung, Bin Xu + 3 more
'Masanao Obori' 'Donguk Suh' 'Junichiro Shiomi'] Since solid-state heat transport in a highly porous nanocomposite strongly depends on the thermal boundary conductance (TBC) between constituent nanomaterials, further suppression of the TBC is important for improving performance of thermal insulators. Here, targeting a…
Xiangyang Peng, Jinshuai Zhang, Jiapeng Fang, Zheng Wang + 4 more
'Zhen Huang' 'Shilong Kuang' 'Chunqing He' 'Andrea Sorrentino'] In this study, the aging process of a surface-functional titanium dioxide nanosheet (f-TNS) composited room-temperature-vulcanized silicone rubber (RTV) composite coating was simulated in a NO2 generation device, and then the electrochemical impedance…
Dafne Musino, Julian Oberdisse, Michael Sztucki, Ángel Alegría + 1 more
'Anne-Caroline Genix'] Industrial and model polymer nanocomposites are often formulated with coating agents to improve polymer-nanoparticle (NP) compatibility. Here the localization of silane coating agents in styrenebutadiene nanocomposite is investigated through the segmental dynamics of the polymer matrix by…
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Tin-containing silicates are ubiquitous heterogeneous catalysts for biomass conversion and fine chemicals synthesis, owing to their strong and selective Lewis acidity. Traditionally, these materials are synthesized via multi-step procedures such as dealumination of zeolites followed by tin incorporation, which usually…
Simon H.J. Brown, James C. Bouwer, Scott B. Cohen
Graphene oxide (GO), an oxidized derivative of graphene, has found application in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as a hydrophilic and transparent solid support on which to adsorb biological macromolecules, providing an alternative to traditional aqueous films. Current applications generally adsorb the macromolecule…
Ganesh Zade, Kiran Patil
Protection of metal is primary undertaking for any design engineer and coating formulator. Construction of large scale equipment and structure involves huge investment in terms of money, time, manpower and other resources. In economic aspects, the life of such structure must as long as possible to get the best return…
Seo Hyeon Lee, Jae Seung Kang, Dokyoung Kim
Porous silicon has been utilized within a wide spectrum of industries, as well as being used in basic research for engineering and biomedical fields. Recently, surface modification methods have been constantly coming under the spotlight, mostly in regard to maximizing its purpose of use. Within this review, we will…
Samuel Ahoulou, Etienne Perret, Jean-Marie Nedelec, Filippo Giubileo
Silicon nanowires are attractive materials from the point of view of their electrical properties or high surface-to-volume ratio, which makes them interesting for sensing applications. However, they can achieve a better performance by adjusting their surface properties with organic/inorganic compounds. This review…
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The potential of alkyne-containing NHCs as anchor molecules for electrochemical surface modification is investigated. Using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, fluorescence tagging, and shell-isolated enhanced Raman spectroscopy, we demonstrate that these NHCs can bind effectively to multiple surfaces and be…
Rong Wang, Mingsheng Xu, Xiaodong Pi
Silicene is a two-dimensional material, which is composed of a single layer of silicon atoms with sp 2 -sp 3 mixed hybridization. The sp 2 -sp 3 mixed hybridization renders silicene excellent reactive ability, facilitating the chemical modification of silicene. It has been demonstrated that chemical modification…
S-R. Lee, Y. Park, J-W. Park
The behavior of the cinnamycin on the biomimetic membrane was studied with respect to the curvature of the phosphatidylethanolamine(PE)-included membrane with the adhesion measured by the atomic force microscope(AFM). The membrane was formed through vesicle fusion on the hydrophobic surface of the sphere spheres, which…
Ushnik Ghosh, Aaron Neumann
Towards the goal of developing bio-chip / lab-on-a-chip substrates capable of performing highly specific bio-chemical reactions, Neutravidin binding to mixed Biotinylated Silane Self-Assembled Monolayers were studied using Confocal Fluorescence Light Microscopy. Non-specific bindings, specifically the formations of…
Mohammadhossein Dabaghi, Shadi Shahriari, Neda Saraei, Kevin Da + 3 more
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is a silicone-based synthetic material that is used in various biomedical applications due to its properties, including transparency, flexibility, permeability to gases, and ease of use. Though PDMS facilitates and realizes the fabrication of complicated geometries at the micro and nano…
Nicholas Marshall, Andres Rodriguez, Scott Crittenden
Salts of the diazonium coupling agent p -phenylenebis(diazonium) form diazonium-terminated conjugated thin films on a variety of conductive and nonconductive surfaces by spontaneous reaction of the coupling agent with the surface. The resulting diazonium-bearing surface can be reacted with various organic and inorganic…
Amanda Wilder, Zaria Booth, Caden Obermeyer, Saika Sharmin + 1 more
Silicones are elastomers that have a wide variety of uses, including biomedical applications such as the coating of biomedical devices and as implants. Soft silicones with mechanical properties similar to those of biological tissues have particularly gained use as substrates for cell culture in mechanobiology studies.…
Neethu Thomas, Parasuraman Swaminathan
Wet etching in hydrofluoric acid (HF) is one of the most common routes for the surface texturing of silica, leading to improved optical properties, which find applications in several fields. In this work, wet etching of silica is mediated by the deposition of chemically synthesized gold nanoparticles on the substrate.…
Abigail Mann, Lynn Lisboa, Samuel Tonkin, Jason Gascooke + 2 more
The modification of polymer surfaces using laser light is important for many applications in the nano-, bio- and chemical sciences. Such capabilities have supported advances in biomedical devices, electronics, information storage, microfluidics, and other functional material applications. In most cases, these…