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Three dimensional nitrogen-doped graphene hydrogels with in situ deposited cobalt phosphate nanoclusters for efficient oxygen evolution in a neutral electrolyte

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00002E, Communication
Anthony Vasileff, Sheng Chen, Shi Zhang Qiao
Nitrogen doped graphene hydrogel electrocatalysts with in situ deposited cobalt phosphate demonstrated excellent catalytic performance toward oxygen evolution in a neutral electrolyte.
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Pressing a spring: what does it take to maximize the energy storage in nanoporous supercapacitors?

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00004A, Communication
Svyatoslav Kondrat, Alexei A. Kornyshev
Increasing the phobicity of pores towards ions can improve energy storage in nanoporous supercapacitors, and simultaneously increase the power density.
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Magnetically Tunable Colloidal Micromirrors

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00035A, Communication
James Goebl, Yiding Liu, Sandy Wong, Serkan Zorba, Yadong Yin
Herein we demonstrate a method for decorating highly reflective 2D gold microplates with magnetic nanoparticles to produce an optical colloid that can be actuated using an applied magnetic field. These...
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MnO2 Nanomaterials for Flexible Supercapacitors: Performance Enhancement via Intrinsically and Extrinsically Modification

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00048C, Minireview
Teng Zhai, Xihong Lu, Fuxing Wang, Hui Xia, Yexiang Tong
Increasing power and energy demands for next-generation portable and flexible electronics have raised critical requirements (flexible, stretchable, environmentally friendly, lightweight, etc.) to the energy storage devices. Flexible supercapacitors (SCs), as...
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Nanoscale adhesion forces between the fungal pathogen Candida albicans and macrophages

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00049A, Communication
Sofiane El-Kirat-Chatel, Yves F. Dufrene
We establish atomic force microscopy as a new nanoscopy platform for quantifying the forces between fungal pathogens and immune cells.
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Size-Tunable Rhodium Nanostructures for Wavelength-Tunable Ultraviolet Plasmonics

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00062A, Communication
Xiao Zhang, Pan Li, Angela Barreda, Yael Gutierrez, Francisco Gonzalez, Fernando Moreno, Henry Everitt, Jie Liu
Polydisperse rhodium nanoparticles have recently shown promise for ultraviolet (UV) plasmonics, but controlling the size and morphology of metal nanoparticles is essential for tuning surface plasmon resonances. Here we report...
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Nuclear tunnelling and carrier delocalization to bridge the gap between hopping and bandlike behaviors in organic semiconductors

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00054H, Communication
Yuqian Jiang, Xinxin Zhong, Wen Shi, Qian Peng, Hua Geng, Yi Zhao, Zhigang Shuai
The experimental carrier mobility value of organic semiconductors increases rapidly in recent years to well exceed the theoretical limit from the hopping model calculated with the semi-classical Marcus theory, calling...
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Ultrasensitive Optical Detection of Anions by Quantum Dots

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00039D, Minireview
Yongbing Lou, Yixin Zhao, Jun-Jie Zhu
Quantum dots (QDs) have received great interest for diverse applications over the past decades due to their unique photophysical properties like tunable band gap, facile solution processibility and versatile surface...
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Hierarchical Nanostructures of Metal Oxides for Enhancing Charge Separation and Transport in Photoelectrochemical Solar Energy Conversion Systems

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00033E, Review Article
Haining Chen, Shihe Yang
Photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion systems, including photoelectrochemical water splitting and photoelectrochemical solar cell (dye-sensitized solar cells, DSSCs), are under intensive development aiming at efficiently harvesting and utilizing solar energy. Metal...
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light emission in nanogaps: overcoming quenching

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00059A, Focus
Philippe Lalanne, remi faggiani, Jianji Yang
Very large spontaneous-emission-rate enhancements (1000) are obtained for quantum emitters coupled with tiny plasmonic resonance, especially when emitters are placed in the mouth of nanogaps formed by metal nanoparticles that...
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The chiral nano-world: chiroptically active quantum nanostructures

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00072F, Review Article
Finn Purcell Milton, Joseph Govan, Maria V. Mukhina, Yurii K. Gun'ko
This review presents recent advances in the development of various chiroptically active quantum nanostructures.
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Photodynamic assembly of nanoparticles towards designable patterning

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00065C, Minireview
Huan Wang, Yong-lai Zhang, Hong Xia, qidai chen, Kwang-Sup Lee, Hongbo Sun
Recent advancements in nanotechnology continue to stimulate the development of functional devices based on nanomaterials. However, controllable assembly of these tiny nanomaterials into functional structures is still a big challenge...
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Mixed-Monolayer Glyconanoparticles for the Detection of Cholera Toxin by SERS

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00036J, Communication
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Jonathan Simpson, Derek Craig, Karen Faulds, Duncan Graham
The same interactions that a pathogen uses for establishment in a host can be exploited in its detection. The carbohydrates comprising the intestinal cell surface GM1-ganglioside, are targeted by vibrio...
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One-dimensional metal oxide-carbon hybrid nanostructures for electrochemical energy storage

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00023H, Minireview
Hao Bin Wu, Genqiang Zhang, Le Yu, Xiong Wen (David) Lou
One-dimensional (1D) metal oxide-carbon hybrid nanostructures have recently attracted enormous interest as promising electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage devices, including lithium-ion batteries and electrochemical capacitors.
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Achieving Stable and Efficient Water Oxidation by Incorporating NiFe Layered Double Hydroxide Nanoparticles into Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00082C, Communication
Rong Chen, Gengzhi Sun, Cangjie Yang, Liping Zhang, Jianwei Miao, Hua Bing Tao, Hongbin Yang, Jiazang Chen, Peng Chen, Bin Liu
A facile and scalable co-precipitation method is developed to prepare stable colloidal NiFe-LDH nanoparticles at room temperature. We further scrolled NiFe-LDH nanoparticles into well-aligned MWCNT sheets to form binder-free hybrid...
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Integrated copper-nickel oxide mesoporous nanowire arrays for high energy density aqueous asymmetric supercapacitors

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00100E, Communication
Ruizhi Li, Zhijun Lin, Xin Ba, Yuanyuan Li, Ruimin Ding, Jinping Liu
Integrated (Cu, Ni)O mesoporous nanowire array was fabricated by a simple hydrothermal method with subsequent annealing, which with optimized Cu: Ni ratio=1:1 delivers a high specific capacitance of 1710 F...
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In-situ formation of peptidic nanofibers can fundamentally optimize the quality of immune responses against HIV vaccine

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00064E, Communication
Ye Liu, Huaimin Wang, Dan Li, Yue Tian, Wenwen Liu, Lingmin Zhang, Wenshu Zheng, Yanling Hao, Jiandong Liu, Zhimou Yang, Yiming Shao, Xingyu Jiang
Herein, we report that the in-situ formed peptidic nanofibers facilitate the induction of multiple crucial immunities against HIV DNA vaccine, including polyfunctional T cell response, broad IgG subclasses response, and...
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Three dimensional nitrogen-doped graphene hydrogels with in situ deposited cobalt phosphate nanoclusters for efficient oxygen evolution in a neutral electrolyte

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, 1,41-44
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00002E, Communication
Anthony Vasileff, Sheng Chen, Shi Zhang Qiao
Nitrogen doped graphene hydrogel electrocatalysts with in situ deposited cobalt phosphate demonstrated excellent catalytic performance toward oxygen evolution in a neutral electrolyte.
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Pressing a spring: what does it take to maximize the energy storage in nanoporous supercapacitors?

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, 1,45-52
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00004A, Communication
Svyatoslav Kondrat, Alexei A. Kornyshev
Increasing the phobicity of pores towards ions can improve energy storage in nanoporous supercapacitors, and simultaneously increase the power density.
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Magnetically tunable colloidal micromirrors

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2016, 1,64-68
DOI: 10.1039/C5NH00035A, Communication
James Goebl, Yiding Liu, Sandy Wong, Serkan Zorba, Yadong Yin
Herein we demonstrate a method for decorating highly reflective 2D gold microplates with magnetic nanoparticles to produce an optical colloid that can be actuated using an applied magnetic field.
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