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Localized Ionic Reinforcement of Double Network Granular Hydrogels

Esther Amstad, Alexandra Thoma

Nature produces soft materials with fascinating combinations of mechanical properties. For example, the mussel byssus embodies a combination of stiffness and toughness, a feature that is unmatched by synthetic hydrogels. Key to enabling these excellent mec ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Nanolithography of the nanocorral structure of chemisorbed oxygen atoms on the graphitic lattice

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shaoxian Li

Controlled atomic patterning is an attractive tool to fine tune properties of graphitic lattice. Several O-functionalized derivatives of graphitic lattice have been widely studied, e.g., graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, and functionalized carbon nan ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Colloidal-ALD Grown Hybrid Shells Nucleate via a Ligand–Precursor Complex

David Lyndon Emsley, Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Kevin Rossi, Michael Allan Hope, Snaedis Björgvinsdóttir, Amrit Venkatesh, Ona Segura Lecina

Colloidal atomic layer deposition (c-ALD) enables the growth of hybrid organic/inorganic oxide shells with tunable thickness at the nanometer scale around ligand-functionalized inorganic nanoparticles (NPs). This recently developed method has demonstrated ...

2022

Wetting of nanopores probed with pressure

Aleksandra Radenovic, Michal Daniel Macha, Sanjin Marion, Andrey Chernev, Sebastian James Davis

Nanopores are both a tool to study single-molecule biophysics and nanoscale ion transport, but also a promising material for desalination or osmotic power generation. Understanding the physics underlying ion transport through nano-sized pores allows better ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Crystallographically Oriented Hybrid Perovskites via Thermal Vacuum Codeposition

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Hiroyuki Kanda, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón, Yen-Cheng Liu, Nadja Isabelle Desiree Klipfel

Hybrid lead halide perovskites typically form polycrystalline films that have multiple grain sizes and surface defects. A key engineering challenge toward commercialization is therefore the production of homogeneous, defect-free largearea devices achieving ...

2021

Single yeast cell nanomotions correlate with cellular activity

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba, Anton Malovichko

Living single yeast cells show a specific cellular motion at the nanometer scale with a magnitude that is proportional to the cellular activity of the cell. We characterized this cellular nanomotion pattern of nonattached single yeast cells using classical ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2020

Three-dimensional imaging of integrated circuits with macro- to nanoscale zoom

Gabriel Aeppli, Manuel Guizar Sicairos

The imaging of integrated circuits across different length scales is required for failure analysis, design validation and quality control. At present, such inspection is accomplished using a hierarchy of different probes, from optical microscopy on the mil ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

The interfacial structure of nano-and micron-sized oil and water droplets stabilized with SDS and Span80

Sylvie Roke, Esther Amstad, Nikolay Smolentsev, Evangelia Zdrali, Gianluca Nicolas Etienne

In this work, we provide a comparison between the stability and the interfacial structure of micrometer-sized and nanometer-sized droplets by employing a multi-instrumental approach comprised of the surface-sensitive technique of sum frequency scattering a ...

2019

Automated Integration of Dual-Edge Clocking for Low-Power Operation in Nanometer Nodes

Andreas Peter Burg, Andrea Bonetti, Adam Shmuel Teman, Nicholas Alexander Preyss

Clocking power, including both clock distribution and registers, has long been one of the primary factors in the total power consumption of many digital systems. One straightforward approach to reduce this power consumption is to apply dual-edge-triggered ...

Association for Computing Machinery2017

Nanoscale studies link amyloid maturity with polyglutamine diseases onset

Hilal Lashuel, Giovanni Dietler, Giovanni Longo, Francesco Simone Ruggeri, Urszula Beata Cendrowska

The presence of expanded poly-glutamine (polyQ) repeats in proteins is directly linked to the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease. However, the molecular and structural basis underlying the increased toxicity ...

Nature Research2016

Infrared Plasmonic Biosensor for Real-Time and Label-Free Monitoring of Lipid Membranes

Hatice Altug, Dordaneh Etezadi, Daniel Rodrigo Lopez

In this work, we present an infrared plasmonic biosensor for chemical-specific detection and monitoring of biomimetic lipid membranes in a label-free and real-time fashion. Lipid membranes constitute the primary biological interface mediating cell signalin ...

American Chemical Society2016

Theoretical and experimental analysis of subwavelength bowtie-shaped antennas

Hatice Altug, Dordaneh Etezadi

Recently, bowtie-shaped apertures have received significant attention due to their extraordinary ability to generate dramatic field enhancement and light confinement in nanometer scale. In this article, we investigate both experimentally and theoretically ...

Brill Academic Publishers2015

Reversible Local and Global Switching in Multicomponent Supramolecular Networks: Controlled Guest Release and Capture at the Solution/Solid Interface

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Fernando Pablo Cometto

Dynamically switchable supramolecular systems offer exciting possibilities in building smart surfaces, the structure and thus the function of which can be controlled by using external stimuli. Here we demonstrate an elegant approach where the guest binding ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Analysis of Quantized Electrical Characteristics of Microscale TiO2 Ink-Jet Printed Memristor

Heinrich Hofmann, Marijana Mionic Ebersold

We demonstrate the ink-jet printed fabrication technique for TiO2-based memristor, followed by detailed analysis of electrical characteristics and development of a new model that considers observed phenomena of quantized conductance steps. The existence of ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Nanoskiving Core-Shell Nanowires: A New Fabrication Method for Nano-optics

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Eleonora Russo, Martin Heiss, Yannik Fontana

This paper describes the fabrication of functional optical devices by sectioning quantum-dot-in-nanowires systems with predefined lengths and orientations. This fabrication process requires only two steps, embedding the nanowires in epoxy and using an ultr ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Communication: Growing room temperature ice with graphene

Water becomes ordered in the form of hexagonal ice at room temperature under controlled humidity conditions upon confinement in the nanometer range between protective graphene sheets and crystalline (111) surfaces with hexagonal symmetry of the alkali eart ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Plasmonic Radiance: Probing Structure at the Ångström Scale with Visible Light

Olivier Martin, Benjamin Gallinet, Thomas Gerd Siegfried

Plasmonic modes with long radiative lifetimes combine strong nanoscale light confinement with a narrow spectral line width carrying the signature of Fano resonances, making them very promising for nanophotonic applications such as sensing, lasing, and swit ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2013

Nanoparticles and Microorganisms : from Synthesis to Toxicity

Jan Dobias

Nanoscience is a young and growing field of science. It encompasses a diversity of sub-fields such as nanotechnology and nano-medicine, all of them seeking to realize the promises of nanoscale physics. Nano means: “billionth” and conceptually all nano-like ...

EPFL2013

Critical Landau velocity in helium nanodroplets

Alberto Hernando de Castro, Marcel Drabbels, Evgeniy Loginov, Nils Benedict Brauer

The best-known property of superfluid helium is the vanishing viscosity that objects experience while moving through the liquid with speeds below the so-called critical Landau velocity. This critical velocity is generally considered a macroscopic property ...

American Physical Society2013

Interaction between liquid aluminium and solid iron Al-rich intermetallics formation

Guillaume Pasche

Intermetallic phases formation is one of the phenomena, which when coupled to thermal and mechanical strains leads to the premature wear of aluminium die casting tools made out of steel. This work focuses on two aspects of this wear problem. The first and ...

EPFL2013