Detection of Early Primary Colorectal Cancer with Upconversion Luminescence NPs-Based Molecular Probes[dagger]

Nanoscale, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR07858J, Paper

Chunyan liu, Yifei Qi, Ruirui Qiao, Yi Hou, Kaying Chan, Ziqian Li, Jiayi Huang, Lihong Jing, Jun Du, Mingyuan Gao
Early detection and diagnosis of cancers is extremely beneficial for improving the survival rate of cancer patients and molecular imaging techniques are believed to be relevant for offering clinical solutions....
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Recombination reduction on lead halide perovskite solar cells based on low temperature synthesized hierarchical TiO2 nanorods

Nanoscale, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06692A, Communication

Oscar A. Jaramillo-Quintero, Mauricio Solis de la Fuente, Rafael S. Sanchez, Ileana B. Recalde, Emilio J. Juarez-Perez, Marina E. Rincon, Ivan Mora-Sero
Hierarchical TiO₂ nanorods produced at low temperature are effective selective contacts for perovskite solar cells due to reduced recombination.
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Electrophoretic deposition of fluorescent Cu and Au sheets for light-emitting diodes

Nanoscale, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06599B, Paper

Jiale Liu, Zhennan Wu, Tingting Li, Ding Zhou, Kai Zhang, Yu Sheng, Jianli Cui, Hao Zhang, Bai Yang
Co-deposition films, composed of fluorescent Cu and Au nanocluster self-assembly sheets, are constructed by stepwise electrophoretic deposition and applied for fabricating white light-emitting diodes.
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Self-assembly of like-charged nanoparticles into microscopic crystals

Nanoscale, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06983A, Communication

Pramod P. Pillai, Bartlomiej Kowalczyk, Bartosz A. Grzybowski
The perfect balance between the interparticle forces leads to the self-assembly of like charged nanoparticles into microscopic crystals.
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Graphene and graphene oxide for desalination

Nanoscale, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06154G, Minireview

Yi You, Veena Sahajwalla, Masamichi Yoshimura, Rakesh K. Joshi
There is a huge scope for graphene-based materials to be used as membranes for desalination.
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Dislocation-driven growth of porous CdSe nanorods from CdSe[middle dot](ethylenediamine)0.5 nanorods

Nanoscale, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06125C, Paper

Hyung-Bae Kim, Du-Jeon Jang
Porous CdSe nanorods having a novel flute-like morphology have been prepared facilely via the hydrothermal treatment of CdSe[middle dot](en)_0.5 nanorods as sacrificial templates.
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Morphology evolution of single-crystalline hematite nanocrystals: magnetically recoverable nanocatalysts for enhanced facet-driven photoredox activity

Nanoscale, 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06509G, Paper

Astam K. Patra, Sudipta K. Kundu, Asim Bhaumik, Dukjoon Kim
We report a new green chemical synthesis method for different shaped hematite nanocrystals for the purpose of photocatalytic properties comparison.
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Tuning the surface oxygen concentration of {111} surrounded ceria nanocrystals for enhanced photocatalytic activities

Nanoscale, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06588G, Paper

Adnan Younis, Dewei Chu, Yusuf Valentino Kaneti, Sean Li
The surface oxygen concentration of {111} exposed sub-10 nm sized ceria nanocrystals was tuned by indium doping for achieving excellent photocatalytic activities.
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Tumor Cell-Specific Photothermal Killing by SELEX-Derived DNA Aptamer-Targeted Gold Nanorods

Nanoscale, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR07831H, Communication

Ramya Chandrasekaran, Alexander Lee, Lim Wei Yap, David Jans, Kylie Wagstaff, Wenlong Cheng
Despite widespread availability of cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents, the killing tumour cells without affecting healthy surrounding tissue remains elusive, although recent developments in terms of plasmonic nanoparticles capable of photothermal killing...
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A Facile Chemical-Mechanical Polishing Lift-Off Transfer Process Toward Large Scale Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin-Film Solar Cells on Arbitrary Substrates

Nanoscale, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR07008B, Paper

Kuan-Chun Tseng, Yu-Ting Yen, Stuart Thomas, Hung-Wei Tsai, Cheng-Hung Hsu, Wen-Chi Tsai, Chang-Hong Shen, Jia-Min Shieh, Zhiming Wang, Yu-Lun Chueh
The fabrication of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) solar cells on flexible substrates is a non-trivial task due to thermal and ion diffusion related issues. In order to circumvent these issues, we have...
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Graphitic Hollow Carbon Nitride Nanosphere as a Novel Photochemical Internalization Agent for Targeted and Stimuli-responsive Cancer Therapy

Nanoscale, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR07719B, Paper

Chaoqun Liu, Zhaowei Chen, Zhenzhen Wang, Wei LI, Enguo Ju, Zhengqing Yan, Zhen Liu, Jinsong Ren, Xiaogang Qu
As a novel technique, photochemical internalization (PCI) has been employed as a new approach to overcome endo/lysosomal restriction, which is one of the main difficulties in both drug and gene...
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Rational design of hierarchically-structured CuBi2O4 composites by deliberate manipulation of the nucleation and growth kinetics of CuBi2O4 for environmental applications

Nanoscale, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06223C, Paper

Wen-Da Oh, Shun Kuang Lua, ZhiLi Dong, Teik-Thye Lim
A versatile eco-friendly synthesis scheme was developed to fabricate a series of hierarchically-structured CuBi2O4 composites for environmental applications. By simple tuning of the synthesis protocol (i.e. controlling the ethylene glycol...
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Resistive pressure sensors based on freestanding membranes of gold nanoparticles

Nanoscale, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06937H, Communication

Hendrik Schlicke, Matthias Rebber, Svenja Kunze, Tobias Vossmeyer
In this communication the application of gold nanoparticle membranes as ambient pressure sensors with electromechanical signal transduction is demonstrated. The devices were fabricated by sealing microstructured cavities with membranes of...
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Sandwich-like Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon/Graphene Nanoflakes with High-rate Capacitive Performance

Nanoscale, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR05151G, Paper

Yu Zhang, Binglin Tao, Wei Xing, Lei Zhang, Qingzhong Xue, Zi-Feng Yan
Sandwich-like nitrogen-doped porous carbon/graphene nanoflakes (NPCFs) are prepared via a two-step approach, firstly by using in-situ polymerization of pyrrole (Py) on the surface of graphene oxide (GO) and then followed...
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Functionalized graphene nanomaterials: new insight into direct exfoliation of graphite with supramolecular polymers

Nanoscale, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR07076G, Communication

Chih-Chia Cheng, Feng-Chih Chang, Jui-Hsu Wang, jemkun chen, Ying-Chieh Yen, D. J. Lee
A new concept for directly exfoliating graphite into graphene has been exploited by employing non-covalent interactions within a supramolecular polymer. In this study, the novel cytosine-mimetic supramolecular polymer (UrCy-PPG) is...
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Superior Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis Enabled by Integrating Hierarchical Pores, Fe3C Nanoparticles and Bamboo-like Carbon Nanotubes

Nanoscale, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR08008H, Paper

Wenxiu Yang, Xiaoyu Yue, Lulu Chen, Xiangjian Liu, Jianbo Jia, Shaojun Guo
Hierarchical porous carbon nanostructures doped with nitrogen or other active elements have been demonstrated to be an important direction in enhancing the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity. However, their intrinsic...
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Confined lattice dynamics of single and quadruple SnSe bilayers in [(SnSe)1.04]m[MoSe2]n ferecrystals

Nanoscale, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06138E, Paper

Benedikt Klobes, Michael Hu, Matt Beekman, David C Johnson, Raphael P. Hermann
The Sn specific densities of phonon states in the SnSe subunits of [(SnSe)1.04]m[MoSe2]n ferecrystals with (m,n) = (1,1), (4,1) and in bulk SnSe were derived from nuclear inelastic scattering by...
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On the mineral core of ferritin-like proteins: structure and magnetic characterization

Nanoscale, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR04446D, Paper

Ana Garcia-Prieto, Javier Alonso, David Munoz, Lourdes Marcano, Ana Abad, Roberto Fernandez de Luis, Inaki Orue, O. Mathon, Alicia Muela, Maria Luisa Fernandez-Gubieda
It is generally accepted that the mineral core synthesized by ferritin-like proteins consists of a ferric oxy-hydroxide mineral similar to ferrihydrite in the case of horse spleen ferritin (HoSF) and...
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Well-constructed silicon-based materials as high-performance lithium-ion battery anodes

Nanoscale, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06278K, Minireview

Lehao Liu, Jing Lyu, Tiehu Li, Tingkai Zhao
Silicon has been considered as one of the most promising anode material alternates for next-generation lithium-ion batteries, because of its high theoretical capacity, environmental friendliness, high safety, low cost, etc....
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Two-dimensional materials saturable absorbers: Towards compact visible-wavelength all-fiber pulsed lasers

Nanoscale, 2015, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06981E, Paper

Zhengqian Luo, Duanduan Wu, Bin Xu, Huiying Xu, Zhiping Cai, Jian Peng, Jian Weng, Shuo Xu, Chunhui Zhu, Fengqiu Wang, Zhipei Sun, Han Zhang
Passive Q-switching or mode-locking by placing a saturable absorber inside the laser cavity is one of the most effective and popular techniques for pulse generation. However, most of the current...
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