Materials and toxicological approaches to study metal and metal-oxide nanoparticles in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans

Written by jags on 20 September 2017. Posted in Biomaterials and materials for drug delivery, therapy, diagnostics and sensing

Laura Gonzalez-Moragas,Laura L. Maurer,Victoria M. Harms,Joel N. Meyer,Anna Laromaine* and Anna Roig*, Mater. Horiz., 2017, 4, 719, DOI: 10.1039/C7MH00166E

Quantifying local thickness and composition in thin films of organic photovoltaic blends by Raman scattering

Written by jags on 07 September 2017. Posted in Materials for energy and enviroment

Xabier Rodríguez-Martínez,* Michelle S. Vezie, Xingyuan Shi, Iain McCulloch, Jenny Nelson, Alejandro R. Goñi and Mariano Campoy-Quiles*, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017,5, 7270-7282. DOI:10.1039/C7TC01472D

Frontispiece: Small-Molecule Kinase-Inhibitors-Loaded Boron Cluster as Hybrid Agents for Glioma-Cell-Targeting Therapy

Written by jags on 28 August 2017. Posted in Biomaterials and materials for drug delivery, therapy, diagnostics and sensing

Marcos Couto, Ignacio Mastandrea, Dr. Mauricio Cabrera, Dr. Pablo Cabral, Prof. Dr. Francesc Teixidor, Dr. Hugo Cerecetto, Prof. Dr. Clara Viñas, Chemistry, 12 July 2017, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201783962

Electronic, spin-state, and magnetic transitions in Ba₂ Co₉ O₁₄ investigated by x-ray spectroscopies and neutron diffraction

Written by jags on 13 August 2017. Posted in Materials for information science and electronics

J. Herrero-Martín, J. Padilla-Pantoja, S. Lafuerza, A. Romaguera, F. Fauth, J. S. Reparaz, and J. L. García-Muñoz. Phys. Rev. B 95, 235129 – Published 15 June 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.235129

Polymer: Fullerene Bimolecular Crystals for Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Photodetectors

Written by jags on 30 July 2017. Posted in Materials for energy and enviroment

Z. Tang, Z. Ma, A. Sánchez-Díaz, S. Ullbrich, Y. Liu, B. Siegmund, A. Mischok, K. Leo, M. Campoy-Quiles, W. Li, K. Vandewal, Adv. Mater. 2017, 1702184. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201702184

Conflicting evidence for ferroelectricity

Written by jags on 13 July 2017. Posted in Materials for information science and electronics

Gabriele D’Avino, Manuel Souto, Matteo Masino, Jonas K. H. Fischer, Imma Ratera, Xavier Fontrodona, Gianluca Giovannetti, Matthieu J. Verstraete, Anna Painelli, Peter Lunkenheimer, Jaume Veciana & Alberto Girlando. Nature 547, E9–E10 (13 July 2017) doi:10.1038/nature22801

Anisotropic features in the electronic structure of the two-dimensional transition metal trichalcogenide TiS₃: electron doping and plasmons

Written by jags on 03 July 2017. Posted in Materials for energy and enviroment

J A Silva-Guillén, E Canadell, P Ordejón, F Guinea, and R Roldán, 2D Materials, Volume 4, Number 2

Control of Polymorphism and Morphology in Solution Sheared Organic Field-Effect Transistors

Written by jags on 19 June 2017. Posted in Materials for energy and enviroment

Sergi Galindo, Adrián Tamayo, Francesca Leonardi, Marta Mas-Torrent. Adv. Funct. Materials. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201700526

ALBA synchrotron enlightens the way sodium-oxygen batteries discharge

Written by jags on 07 June 2017. Posted in Materials for energy and enviroment

Imanol Landa-Medrano, Andrea Sorrentino, Lorenzo Stievano, Idoia Ruiz de Larramendi, Eva Pereiro, Luis Lezama, Teófilo Rojo, Dino Tonti. Nano Energy, Volume 37, July 2017, Pages 224–231 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.05.021

Monolayer Contact Doping from a Silicon Oxide Source Substrate

Written by jags on 29 May 2017. Posted in Materials for information science and electronics

Liang Ye, Arántzazu González-Campo, Tibor Kudernac, Rosario Núñez, Michel de Jong, Wilfred G. van der Wiel, and Jurriaan Huskens *. Langmuir, 2017, 33 (15), pp 3635–3638. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b0015710.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00157

Competition between Polar and Nonpolar Lattice Distortions in Oxide Quantum Wells: New Critical Thickness at Polar Interfaces

Written by jags on 14 September 2017. Posted in Materials for energy and enviroment

J. Gazquez, M. Stengel, R. Mishra, M. Scigaj, M. Varela, M. A. Roldan, J. Fontcuberta, F. Sánchez, and G. Herranz. Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 106102 – Published 7 September 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.106102

Bottom-up approach for the preparation of hybrid nanosheets based on coordination polymers made of metal–diethyloxaloacetate complexes linked by 4,4′-bipyridine

Written by jags on 30 August 2017. Posted in Materials for energy and enviroment

Nuria Portoles-Gil, Ricard Parra-Aliana, Ángel Álvarez-Larena, Concepción Domingo, José A. Ayllón* and Ana López-Periago*. CrystEngComm, 2017, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/C7CE00909G

Toxicogenomics of iron oxide nanoparticles in the nematode C. elegans

Written by jags on 20 August 2017. Posted in Biomaterials and materials for drug delivery, therapy, diagnostics and sensing

Laura Gonzalez-Moragas, Si-Ming Yu , Núria Benseny-Cases, StephenStürzenbaum , Anna Roig & Anna Laromaine (2017): Toxicogenomics of iron oxide nanoparticles inthe nematode C. elegans, Nanotoxicology, DOI: 10.1080/17435390.2017.1342011

Optical Emission in Hexagonal SiGe Nanowires

Written by jags on 06 August 2017. Posted in Materials for information science and electronics

Xavier Cartoixà, Maurizia Palummo, Håkon Ikaros T. Hauge, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, and Riccardo Rurali*. Nano Lett., Article ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01441

Probing localized strain in solution-derived YBa₂Cu₃O_7−δ nanocomposite thin films

Written by jags on 23 July 2017. Posted in Materials for energy and enviroment

Roger Guzman, Jaume Gazquez, Bernat Mundet, Mariona Coll, Xavier Obradors, and Teresa Puig. Phys. Rev. Materials. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.024801

Novel Fe₃O₄@GNF@SiO₂ nanocapsules fabricated through the combination of an in situ formation method and SiO₂ coating process for magnetic resonance imaging

Written by jags on 10 July 2017. Posted in Biomaterials and materials for drug delivery, therapy, diagnostics and sensing

Changyong Lu,* Stefania Sandoval, Teresa Puig, Xavier Obradors, Gerard Tobias, Josep Rosa and Susagna Ricart. RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 24690. DOI: 10.1039/c7ra04080f

Hybrid YBa₂Cu₃O₇ Superconducting–Ferromagnetic Nanocomposite Thin Films Prepared from Colloidal Chemical Solutions

Written by jags on 23 June 2017. Posted in Materials for energy and enviroment

Elena Bartolomé, Pablo Cayado, Eduardo Solano,Cristian Mocuta, Susagna Ricart, Bernat Mundet, Marionna Coll, Jaume Gázquez, Alexander Meledin, Gustaaf van Tendeloo, Manuel Valvidares, Javier Herrero-Martín, Pierluigi Gargiani, Eric Pellegrin, Cesar Magén, Teresa Puig, Xavier Obradors. Adv. Electron. Mater. 2017, 1700037. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201700037

Effect of Temperature on Magnetic Solitons Induced by Spin-Transfer Torque

Written by jags on 14 June 2017. Posted in Materials for information science and electronics

Sergi Lendínez, Jinting Hang, Saül Vélez, Joan Manel Hernández, Dirk Backes, Andrew D. Kent, and Ferran Macià. Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 054027. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.054027

Untangling surface oxygen exchange effects in YBa₂Cu₃O_6+x thin films by electrical conductivity relaxation

Written by jags on 01 June 2017. Posted in Materials for energy and enviroment

P. Cayado, C. F. Sánchez-Valdés, A. Stangl, M. Coll, P. Roura, A. Palau, T. Puig and X. Obradors*. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017,19, 14129-14140. DOI: 0.1039/C7CP01855J0.1039/C7CP01855J

Metal–Organic Frameworks Precipitated by Reactive Crystallization in Supercritical CO₂

Written by jags on 22 May 2017. Posted in Biomaterials and materials for drug delivery, therapy, diagnostics and sensing

Ana M. López-Periago, Nuria Portoles-Gil, Pedro López-Domínguez, Julio Fraile, Javier Saurina, Nuria Aliaga-Alcalde, Gerard Tobias, José A. Ayllón, and Concepcion Domingo *. Cryst. Growth Des., 2017, 17 (5), pp 2864–2872. DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.7b00378

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