Nanoscale Research Letters

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List of Papers (Total 6,028)

Spontaneous Exciton Collapse in a Strongly Flattened Ellipsoidal InSb Quantum Dot

Electronic and excitonic states in an InSb strongly flattened ellipsoidal quantum dot (QD) with complicated dispersion law are theoretically investigated within the framework of the geometric adiabatic approximation in the strong, intermediate, and weak quantum confinement regimes. For the lower levels of the spectrum, the square root dependence of energy on QD sizes is revealed...

Length-Dependent Photoelectric Property of ZnO Nanowires

An interesting phenomenon that the photocurrent (the difference between illumination and dark current) of a ZnO nanowire (NW) under a specified voltage increased as its length increased in a certain range was observed previously and it was supposed to be mainly due to a special mean free path effect (MFPE) which caused a special distribution of dark electron density along the...

High-Efficient Spin Injection in GaN at Room Temperature Through A Van der Waals Tunnelling Barrier

Achieving high-efficient spin injection in semiconductors is critical for developing spintronic devices. Although a tunnel spin injector is typically used, the construction of a high-quality tunnel barrier remains a significant challenge due to the large lattice mismatch between oxides and semiconductors. In this work, van der Waals h-BN films with the atomically flat interface...

High Performance Flip-Structure Enhancement-Mode HEMT with Face-to-Face Double Gates

A novel double gates flip-structure enhancement-mode (E-mode) high electron mobility transistor with step field plate (DFF HEMT) is proposed. It features face-to-face double gates, including a top trench MIS gate with a step field plate and a bottom planar MIS gate, which is shorted together. In the on-state, the double gates not only can restore the 2DEG by the higher electric...

Modulation Technique of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance of Palladium Nanospheres by Coating with Titanium Dioxide Shell for Application to Photothermal Therapy Agent

Although plasmonic palladium (Pd) nanospheres are thermodynamically stable and have high photothermal conversion due to the free and bound electron coupling associated with the intrinsic high interband transition, they have not attracted attention as a photothermal conversion material for next-generation photothermal cancer therapy. This is because the Pd nanospheres generate the...

Improving Cyclability of Lithium Metal Anode via Constructing Atomic Interlamellar Ion Channel for Lithium Sulfur Battery

Uniform migration of lithium (Li) ions between the separator and the lithium anode is critical for achieving good quality Li deposition, which is of much significance for lithium metal battery operation, especially for Li–sulfur (Li–S) batteries. Commercial separators such as polypropylene or polyethylene can be prepared by wet or dry processes, but they can indeed cause...

Broadening Bandwidths of Few-Layer Absorbers by Superimposing Two High-Loss Resonators

Efficient broadband absorption of solar radiation is desired for sea water desalination, icephobicity and other renewable energy applications. We propose an idea of superimposing two high-loss resonances to broaden bandwidths of a few-layer absorber, which is made of dielectric/ metal/dielectric/ metal layers. Both the simulation and experiment show that the structure has an...

PD-L1 monoclonal antibody-decorated nanoliposomes loaded with Paclitaxel and P-gp transport inhibitor for the synergistic chemotherapy against multidrug resistant gastric cancers

Multidrug resistance (MDR) based on ATP-dependent efflux transporters (p-glycoprotein (p-gp)) remains a major obstacle in successful chemotherapy treatment. Herein, we have investigated the potential of PD-L1 mAb-conjugated nanoliposome to serve as a targeted delivery platform for the co-delivery of paclitaxel (PTX) and p-gp specific transport inhibitor (TQD, tariquidar) in drug...

Scalable Synthesis Nano-Perovskite K(Mn0.95Ni0.05)F3 Cathode by Homogeneous Precipitation Method for Potassium-Ion Batteries

Potassium-ion batteries (KIBs) are favored by researchers because of the unique advantages. In this work, KIB cathode material nano-perovskite K(Mn0.95Ni0.05)F3 with concentration gradient was synthesized by EDTA-assisted homogeneous precipitation method for the first time and characterized. The solid solution material was deposited on the multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs...

A Phenanthroline-Based Fluorescent Probe for Highly Selective Detection of Extreme Alkalinity (pH > 14) in Aqueous Solution

Although numerous fluorescent probes are designed to detect the pH value in the past decades, developing fluorescent probes for extreme alkalinity (pH > 14) detection in aqueous solution is still a great challenge. In this work, we utilized 1H-imidazo[4,5-f][1, 10] phenanthroline (IP) group as the recognition group of hydroxyl ion and introduced two triethylene glycol monomethyl...

Protoporphyrin IX-loaded laminarin nanoparticles for anticancer treatment, their cellular behavior, ROS detection, and animal studies

Laminarin conjugate-based nano-scaled particles were in this study proposed as a delivery system for protoporphyrin IX (Pp IX) in photodynamic therapy (PDT) of human breast cancer cells (MCF-7). Hematin-Laminarin-Dithiodipropionic Acid-MGK, named as HLDM, was an amphiphilic carrier material with dual pH/redox sensitive that could be used to load hydrophobic drug to improve their...

Synergistic Exfoliation of MoS2 by Ultrasound Sonication in a Supercritical Fluid Based Complex Solvent

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is an extremely intriguing low-D layered material due to its exotic electronic, optical, and mechanical properties, which could be well exploited for numerous applications to energy storage, sensing, and catalysis, etc., provided a sufficiently low number of layers is achieved. A facile exfoliation strategy that leads to the production of few-layered...

Magnetization Dynamics Modulated by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in the Double-Interface Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic Tunnel Junction

Currently double-interface magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) have been developed for enhancing the thermal stability barrier at the nanoscale technology node. Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction (DMI) inevitably exists in such devices due to the use of the heavy-metal/ferromagnet structures. Previous studies have demonstrated the detrimental effect of DMI on the conventional single...

Synergistically Enhanced Inhibitory Effects of Pullulan Nanoparticle-Mediated Co-Delivery of Lovastatin and Doxorubicin to Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a subtype of breast cancer that is prone to drug resistance and difficult to treat. In this study, we grafted water-soluble pullulan with lovastatin (LV) to develop a novel amphiphilic conjugate, pullulan-encapsulated LV (PLV). The PLV conjugate was synthesized with three different ratios of pullulan to LV and characterized by Fourier...

Effect of Facile p-Doping on Electrical and Optoelectronic Characteristics of Ambipolar WSe2 Field-Effect Transistors

We investigated the electrical and optoelectronic characteristics of ambipolar WSe2 field-effect transistors (FETs) via facile p-doping process during the thermal annealing in ambient. Through this annealing, the oxygen molecules were successfully doped into the WSe2 surface, which ensured higher p-type conductivity and the shift of the transfer curve to the positive gate voltage...

Core-Shell Fiber-Based 2D Woven Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Effective Motion Energy Harvesting

Personal electronic devices have a general development trend of miniaturization, functionality, and wearability. Their wireless, sustainable, and independent operation is critically important, which requests new power technologies that can harvest the ambient environmental energy. Here, we report a new kind of 2D woven wearable triboelectric nanogenerator (2DW-WTNG) composed of...

Electrospun Jets Number and Nanofiber Morphology Effected by Voltage Value: Numerical Simulation and Experimental Verification

Electrical voltage has a crucial effect on the nanofiber morphology as well as the jet number in the electrospinning process, while few literatures were found to explain the deep mechanism. Herein, the electrical field distribution around the spinning electrode was studied by the numerical simulation firstly. The results show that the electrical field concentrates on the tip of a...

Improved Optical Property and Lasing of ZnO Nanowires by Ar Plasma Treatment

ZnO nanowires play a very important role in optoelectronic devices due to the wide bandgap and high exciton binding energy. However, for one-dimensional nanowire, due to the large surface to volume ratio, surface traps and surface adsorbed species acts as an alternate pathway for the de-excitation of carriers. Ar plasma treatment is a useful method to enhance the optical property...

Atomic-Scale Characterization of Slip Deformation and Nanometric Machinability of Single-Crystal 6H-SiC

As an important third-generation semiconductor material, the micro-deformation and removal mechanism of 6H-SiC at the atomic scale are vital for obtaining ultra-smooth and damage-free surface with atomic steps. Due to the difficulties in directly observing the surface/subsurface of nanomachining region by current experimental means, molecular dynamics method is used to study the...

Structural characterization of self-assembled chain like Fe-FeOx Core shell nanostructure

One of the big challenge of studying the core-shell iron nanostructures is to know the nature of oxide shell, i.e., whether it is γ-Fe2O3 (Maghemite), Fe3O4 (Magnetite), α-Fe2O3 (Hematite), or FeO (Wustite). By knowing the nature of iron oxide shell with zero valent iron core, one can determine the chemical or physical behavior of core-shell nanostructures. Fe core-shell...

Strong Valence Electrons Dependent and Logical Relations of Elemental Impurities in 2D Binary Semiconductor: a Case of GeP3 Monolayer from Ab Initio Studies

Using first-principle calculations within density functional theory, we investigate the electronic property and stability of substitutionally doped 2D GeP3 monolayer with dopants from group III to VI. The conducting properties are found to be dramatically modified by both the doping sites and the number of valence electrons of dopants. Specifically, substitution on Ge site...

Penta-Graphene as a Potential Gas Sensor for NOx Detection

Two-dimensional (2D) penta-graphene (PG) with unique properties that can even outperform graphene is attracting extensive attention because of its promising application in nanoelectronics. Herein, we investigate the electronic and transport properties of monolayer PG with typical small gas molecules, such as CO, CO2, NH3, NO and NO2, to explore the sensing capabilities of this...

A pH-Induced Reversible Assembly System with Resveratrol-Controllable Loading and Release for Enhanced Tumor-Targeting Chemotherapy

In this report, we present a pH-induced reversible assembly system (PIRAS) based on ferritin (Ft) for targeted tumor therapy. It has been developed to easily load and release of the anticancer drug resveratrol (RV), based on its natural pH-sensitivity and unique hollow cavity of Ft. A tumor-specific target peptide Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) was conjugated onto the surface of RV-loaded Ft...

Influence of Group Modification at the Edges of Carbon Quantum Dots on Fluorescent Emission

We present a detailed investigation on the effect of functional group modulation at the edges of carbon quantum dots (CQDs) on the fluorescence from the CQDs. The CQDs attached by N, S, and P elements are synthesized via pyrolysis of a mixture of citric acid and NH3H2O, H2SO4, and H3PO4, respectively. Thus, part of –COOH at the edges of CQDs can be converted into –C=O and...