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Synthesis and electrochemical application of carbon nanotubes obtained from hexachloroethane
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with the average inner (outer) diameter of 10–20 nm (20–40 nm) and length up to 100s of nanometers were synthesized via Wurtz reaction at 400 °C for 12 h, using C2Cl6 and Na as reactants. ...
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Titanate nanotubes: preparation, characterization, and application in the detection of dopamine
Titanate nanotubes were successfully synthesized via a hydrothermal process with the assistance of surfactant. These nanotubes with average length of several hundred nanometers and diameter of 10 nm were emplo...
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High-yield fabrication of t-Se nanowires via hydrothermal method and their photoconductivity
Large-scale fabrication of high-purity and uniform trigonal selenium (t-Se) nanowires was obtained by reducing SeO2 with glucose at 160 °C for 24 h. The resulting t-Se nanowires were characterized and confirmed b...
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Microfabrication of a new sensor based on silver and silicon nanomaterials, and its application to the enrichment and detection of bovine serum albumin via surface-enhanced Raman scattering
A microchannel with a length of 40 mm, a width of 65 μm and a depth of 35 μm was fabricated on Si wafer via wet etching. This channel, composed of a silicon nanowire array and silver nanoparticles, served to e...
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Wet route to silicon oxide quantum dots with fixed and strong blue emission
Amorphous silicon oxide quantum dots, with a quantum yield of 0.47 and blue emission fixed at 2.85 eV (433 nm), were obtained via two wet steps: first silicon nanowires reacted with potassium hydroxide at 50 °...
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Bis-(8-hydroxyquinoline) mercury nanoribbons: preparation, characterization and photoconductivity
Bis-(8-hydroxyquinoline) mercury nanoribbons with average width of 300 nm, thickness of 50 nm and length of up to tens of micrometers were synthesized by a facile solvothermal method. X-ray powder diffraction ...
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Open AccessHighly-sensitive multiplexed in vivo imaging using pegylated upconversion nanoparticles
Lanthanide-based upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have been widely explored in various fields, including optical imaging, in recent years. Although earlier work has shown that UCNPs with different lanthanide...
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Photoconductivity of a bundle of Bis(8-hydroxyquinoline) cadmium nanoribbons
Large-scale Bis(8-hydroxyquinoline) cadmium nanoribbons were obtained by a facile solvothermal method. The as-prepared products were characterized with X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared and scannin...
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Surface-enhanced fluorescence from copper nanoparticles on silicon nanowires
A method to enhance surface plasmon coupled fluorescence from copper nanoparticles on silicon nanowires is presented. Owing to resonant plasmons oscillation on the surface of Cu/Si nanostructure, the fluoresce...
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Synthesis, characterization and catalytic property of manganese dioxide with different structures
In this paper, different crystallographic types and crystal morphologies of MnO2 nanomaterials have been selectively synthesized by a simple hydrothermal route. α-MnO2 nanowires, and γ-MnO2 hollow hierarchical sp...
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Au-modified silicon nanowires for surface-enhanced fluorescence of Ln3+ (Ln = Pr, Nd, Ho, and Er)
The interaction of the surface plasmons of gold nanoparticles on silicon nanowires with fluorophores, lanthanide ions (praseodymium ions, Pr3+, neodymium ions Nd3+, holmium ions Ho3+, and erbium ions Er3+) was in...
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The influence of ultrasonic frequency on the properties of Ni-Co coatings prepared by ultrasound-assisted electrodeposition
In this paper, Ni-Co coatings were electrodeposited onto carbon steel substrates with the aid of ultrasonic agitation. The coatings were analyzed by energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX), X-ray diffraction an...
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The enhanced ammonia gas-sensing activity of gamma ray irradiated indium vanadate nanoribbons
Indium vanadate (InVO4) nanoribbons were irradiated with various doses of gamma ray irradiation. The results revealed that the crystal structure remained unchanged after irradiation while the UV–Vis spectra under...
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Open AccessThe Effect of Dielectric Constants on Noble Metal/Semiconductor SERS Enhancement: FDTD Simulation and Experiment Validation of Ag/Ge and Ag/Si Substrates
The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method was employed to simulate the electric field distribution for noble metal (Au or Ag)/semiconductor (Ge or Si) substrates. The simulation showed that noble metal/G...
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Open AccessSmart Liquid SERS Substrates based on Fe3O4/Au Nanoparticles with Reversibly Tunable Enhancement Factor for Practical Quantitative Detection
There is a strong correlation between the surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) enhancement factor (EF), the excitation wavelength and the feature properties (composition, size, geometry and analytes). The ...
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Silicon nanowires: applications in catalysis with distinctive surface property
Over the last few years, silicon nanowires (SiNWs) have come under intensive researches due to their electrical, optical, mechanical, thermal, and chemical properties. On account of their large surface-to-volu...
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Bi-functional Au/FeS (Au/Co3O4) composite for in situ SERS monitoring and degradation of organic pollutants
The bi-functional Au/FeS (Au/Co3O4) composite was fabricated by in situ reducing Au nanoparticles onto the surface of FeS (Co3O4). The as-prepared FeS possessed a multi-structure composed of plenty of nanoplates,...
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Open AccessA rhodium/silicon co-electrocatalyst design concept to surpass platinum hydrogen evolution activity at high overpotentials
Currently, platinum-based electrocatalysts show the best performance for hydrogen evolution. All hydrogen evolution reaction catalysts should however obey Sabatier’s principle, that is, the adsorption energy o...
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Open AccessThe Surface Polarized Graphene Oxide Quantum Dot Films for Flexible Nanogenerators
Abundant disorderly-distributed surface functional groups, such as hydroxyl, carboxyl, ether and amino groups, endow an isolated graphene oxide quantum dot (GOQD) the polar property due to the symmetry breakin...
