This review focuses on the development of multi-layer fullerenes, known as carbon nano-onions (CNOs). First, it briefly summarizes the most important synthetic pathways for their preparation and their properties and it gives the reader an update over new developments in the recent years. This is followed by a discussion of the published synthetic procedures for CNO functionalization, which are ...

We have developed a metascalable (or ‘design once, scale on new architectures’) parallel application-development framework for first-principles based simulations of nano-mechano-chemical processes on emerging petaflops architectures based on spatiotemporal data locality principles. The framework consists of (1) an embedded divide-and-conquer (EDC) algorithmic framework based on spatial locality...

Nanoscale localization of electromagnetic fields near metallic nanostructures underpins the fundamentals and applications of plasmonics. The unavoidable energy loss from plasmon decay, initially seen as a detriment, has now expanded the scope of plasmonic applications to exploit the generated hot carriers. However, quantitative understanding of the spatial localization of these hot carriers, ak...

Palladium catalysts have been widely adopted for organic synthesis and diverse industrial applications given their efficacy and safety, yet their biological in vivo use has been limited to date. Here we show that nanoencapsulated palladium is an effective means to target and treat disease through in vivo catalysis. Palladium nanoparticles (Pd-NPs) were created by screening different Pd compound...

PURPOSE Mechanisms governing the cellular interactions with well-defined nanotopography are not well described in vivo. This is partly due to the difficulty in isolating a particular effect of nanotopography from other surface properties. This study employed colloidal lithography for nanofabrication on titanium implants in combination with an in vivo sampling procedure and different analytical ...

Facile Synthesis and Photocatalysis of Size-Distributed TiO2 Hollow Spheres Consisting of {116} Plane-Oriented Nanocrystallites Yuzhu Jiao, Chengxin Peng, Fangfang Guo, Zhihao Bao, Jinhu Yang,* Lukas Schmidt-Mende, Ricky Dunbar, Yao Qin,* and Zifeng Deng Institute for Advanced Materials and Nano Biomedicine and Department of Chemistry, Tongji University, Siping Road 1239, Shanghai 200092, Peopl...

Xiang Hou, Xin Xiao, Qian-Hao Zhou, Xue-Feng Cheng, Prof. Jing-Hui He, Prof. Qing-Feng Xu, Prof. Hua Li, Prof. Na-Jun Li, Prof. Dong-Yun Chen and Prof. Jian-Mei Lu College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, PR China; National United Engineering Laboratory of Functiona...

atomic or molecular scale, enables a new paradigm of science and technology that sees different technologies converging at the nanoscale, namely (a) nanoscience and nanotechnology; (b) biotechnology and biomedicine; (c) information technology; and (d) cognitive science (“NBIC” (nano-bio-info-cogno)). This paradigm derives from the fact that living systems are governed by molecular behavior at t...

New Energy Research Institute, School of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510006, China Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100083, China State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Center of Bio & Micro/Nano Functional Materials, Shandong University, 27 Shan...