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Triggering the Sintering of Silver Nanoparticles at Room Temperature
A new approach to achieve coalescence and sintering of metallic nanoparticles at room temperature is presented. It was discovered that silver nanoparticles behave as soft... -
Low-Temperature Exfoliated Graphenes: Vacuum-Promoted Exfoliation and Electro...
A preheated high-temperature environment is believed to be critical for a chemical-exfoliation-based production of graphenes starting from graphite oxide, a belief that is based... -
Time Resolved Single-step Protease Activity Quantification Using Nanoplasmoni...
Protease activity measurement has broad application in drug screening, diagnosis and disease staging, and molecular profiling. However, conventional immunopeptidemetric assays... -
From Graphene to Metal Oxide Nanolamellas: A Phenomenon of Morphology Transmi...
Single-layer-graphene and few-layer-graphene structures have been predicted to have high specific surface area. Recent research has focused largely on utilizing the intriguing... -
Energy Transfer from Individual Semiconductor Nanocrystals to Graphene
Energy transfer from photoexcited zero-dimensional systems to metallic systems plays a prominent role in modern day materials science. A situation of particular interest...