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Engineering dendrimers to produce dendrimer dipole excitation based terahertz radiation sources suitable for spectrometry, molecular and biomedical imaging

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, 2,127-134
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00010C, Focus
Anis Rahman, A. K. Rahman, Donald A. Tomalia
Systematic engineering of PAMAM dendrimer CNDPs (i.e., surface chemistry and interior compositions) produced hyperpolarizable substrates that generated terahertz radiation when exposed to a pump laser.
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Synthesis, optical properties and applications of light-emitting copper nanoclusters

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, 2,135-146
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00013H, Review Article
Zhenguang Wang, Bingkun Chen, Andrey L. Rogach
Copper is an earth abundant, inexpensive metal readily available from commercial sources, which is increasingly coming into focus for light-emitting metal nanocluster research.
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Catalytic assembly of DNA nanostructures on nanoporous gold array as 3D architectures for label-free telomerase activity sensing

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00042A, Communication
Suyan Qiu, Fusheng Zhao, Oussama Zenasni, Jingting Li, Wei-Chuan Shih
Telomerase, an enzyme known to catalyze telomere elongation by adding TTAGGG [thymine (T), adenine (A), and guanine (G)] repeats to the end of telomeres, is vital for cell proliferation. Telomerase...
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Perovskite Quantum Dots Encapsulated Electrospun Fiber Membrane as Multifunctional Supersensitive Sensors for Biomolecule, Metal Ion and pH

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00057J, Communication
Yuanwei Wang, Yihua Zhu, Jianfei Huang, Jin Cai, Jingrun Zhu, Xiaoling Yang, Jianhua Shen, Chunzhong Li
CsPbBr3 Perovskite quantum dots (CPBQDs) have exhibited excellent optical properties, which implies their potential as appealing candidate for fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) based detection. In this work, in order...
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Far-field plasmonic coupling in 2-dimensional polycrystalline plasmonic arrays enables wide tunability with low-cost nanofabrication

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00067G, Communication
Fusheng Zhao, Md Masud Parvez Arnob, Oussama Zenasni, Jingting Li, Wei-Chuan Shih
We report the experimental observation and numerical modeling study of far-field plasmonic coupling (FFPC) in 2-dimensional polycrystalline plasmonic arrays consisting of "single crystalline" domains of random size and orientation. Even...
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Determination of the Length and Diameter of Nanorods by a Combination of Analytical Ultracentrifugation and Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00050B, Communication
Thaseem Thajudeen, Johannes Walter, Rubitha Srikantharajah, Christian Luebbert, wolfgang peukert
A combination of orthogonal measurement techniques is utilized in this study to predict the average lengths and diameters of colloidal nanorods. Sedimentation coefficient distributions and electrical mobility distributions obtained from...
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Nanoplasmonically-engineered Random Lasing in Organic Semiconductor Thin Films

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00054E, Communication
Esmaeil Heydari, isabel pastoriza-santos, Luis M. Liz-Marzan, Joachim Stumpe
We demonstrate plasmonically nano-engineered coherent random lasing and stimulated emission enhancement in a hybrid gain of organic semiconductors doped with core-shell plasmonic nanoparticles. The gain is comprised of a 300...
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Phosphorus doped NiCo2S4 nanocrystals grown on electrospun carbon nanofibers as ultra-efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00066A, Communication
Huahao Gu, Wei Fan, Tianxi Liu
The development of highly efficient noble-metal-free electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is still a challenge nowadays. In this work, we prepared a highly active electrocatalyst containing phosphorus doped NiCo2S4...
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Primary microglia maintain capacity to function despite internalisation and intracellular loading with carbon nanotubes

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00055C, Communication
cyrill bussy, Alberto Bianco, Maurizio Prato, Kostas Kostarelos
Biomedical applications of functionalised carbon nanotubes (f-CNTs) for imaging as well as drug or gene delivery in the brain have recently gained interest. Several studies have demonstrated the potential of...
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Fully Degradable Protein Nanocarriers by Orthogonal Photoclick Tetrazole-ene Chemistry for the Encapsulation and Release

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00062F, Communication
Keti Piradashvili, David Passlick, Johanna Simon, Julian Robin Hohner, Volker Mailander, Frederik R Wurm, Katharina Landfester
The encapsulation of sensitive drugs into nanocarriers retaining their bioactivity and achieving selective release is a challenging topic in current drug delivery design. Established protocols rely on metal-catalyzed or unspecific...
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Highly active and durable carbon nitride fibers as metal-free bifunctional oxygen electrodes for flexible Zn-air batteries

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00058H, Communication
S S Shinde, Jin-Young Yu, Jae-Won Song, Yoonho Nam, Dong-Hyung Kim, Jung-Ho Lee
The design of flexible, highly energetic, and durable bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts is indispensable for rechargeable metal-air batteries. Herein we present a simple approach for the development of carbon nitride fibers...
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Towards a classification strategy for complex nanostructures

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, 2,187-198
DOI: 10.1039/C6NH00219F, Minireview
V. Castagnola, J. Cookman, J. M. de Araujo, E. Polo, Q. Cai, C. P. Silveira, Z. Krpetic, Y. Yan, L. Boselli, K. A. Dawson
The range of possible nanostructures is so large and continuously growing, that collating and unifying the knowledge connected to them, including their biological activity, is a major challenge.
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Interactions of the innate immune system with carbon nanotubes

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, 2,174-186
DOI: 10.1039/C6NH00227G, Review Article
Kirsten M. Pondman, Carolina Salvador-Morales, Basudev Paudyal, Robert B. Sim, Uday Kishore
The complement system can interact with nanoparticles and alter the intended therapeutic targeting.
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Hybrid magnetite-gold nanoparticles as bifunctional magnetic-plasmonic systems: three representative cases

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, 2,205-216
DOI: 10.1039/C6NH00225K, Communication
J. Canet-Ferrer, P. Albella, A. Ribera, J. V. Usagre, S. A. Maier
Controlling the electromagnetic field distribution of magnetite-gold hetero-structures by tailoring the geometry of the magnetic- and plasmonic-constituents.
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Coaxial Ag-base metal nanowire networks with high electrochemical stability for transparent and stretchable asymmetric supercapacitors

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, 2,199-204
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00024C, Communication
Sangbaek Park, Alvin Wei Ming Tan, Jiangxin Wang, Pooi See Lee
Based on electrochemically stable Ag-Ni and Ag-Fe core-shell nanowire networks, a transparent and stretchable asymmetric supercapacitor was demonstrated.
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Metal-Organic Framework Derived Hollow CoS2 Nanotube Arrays: An Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00079K, Communication
cao guan, Ximeng Liu, Abdelnaby Mohamed Elshahawy, Hong Zhang, Haijun Wu, Stephen John Pennycook, John Wang
Self-supported hollow nanoarrays with hierarchical pores and rich reaction sites are promising for advanced electrocatalysis. Herein, we report a rational design of novel CoS2 nanotube arrays assembled on flexible support...
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Metal-semiconductor nanocomposite as an efficient oxygen-independent photosensitizer for photodynamic tumor therapy

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00087A, Communication
Jin-Xuan Fan, Miao-Deng Liu, Chu-Xin Li, Sheng Hong, Di-Wei Zheng, xinhua liu, si chen, Hong Cheng, Xian-Zheng Zhang
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is regarded as one of the most promising cancer treatments, and oxygen-independent photosensitizers have been intensively explored for advancing the development of PDT. Here, we reported on...
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Kinetic enhancement in high-activity enzyme complexes attached to nanoparticles

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00052A, Communication
Anthony P. Malanoski, Joyce C. Breger, Carl W. Brown, Jeffrey R. Deschamps, Kimihiro Susumu, Eunkeu Oh, George P. Anderson, Scott A. Walper, Igor L. Medintz
Accumulating studies by many groups have found consistent enhancement in a wide variety of enzyme activities when they are displayed around nanoparticles.
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Smart textiles of MOF/g-C3N4 nanospheres for chemical warfare agent rapid detection/detoxification

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00081B, Communication
Dimitrios A. Giannakoudakis, Yuping Hu, Marc Florent, Teresa J Bandosz
Smart textiles consisting of cotton, Cu-BTC MOF and oxidized graphitic carbon nitride, g-C3N4-ox, nanospheres were synthesized and tested as nerve agent detoxification media and its colorimetric detectors. Combining Cu-BTC and...
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Permittivity imaged at the nanoscale using Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C7NH00075H, Communication
Julien Plathier, Andrey Krayev, Vasily Gavrilyuk, Alain Pignolet, Andreas Ruediger
Localized surface plasmons resonances are the dominating contribution to the optical enhancement and the lateral resolution in tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. This well studied phenomenon may give access to more information...
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