Magneto-fluorescent particles have been recognized as an emerging class of materials that exhibit great potential in advanced applications. However, synthesizing such magneto-fluorescent nanomaterials that simultaneously exhibit uniform and tunable sizes, high magnetic content loading, maximized fluorophore coverage at the surface and a versatile surface functionality has proven challenging. He...

A combination of static and dynamic laser light scattering has revealed that at temperatures higher than ,33 ±C a linear poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) chain grafted with poly(ethylene oxide) (PNIPAMg-PEO) in water can undergo a “coil-to-globule” transition to form a stable single chain core-shell nanostructure with the collapsed PNIPAM chain backbone as the hydrophobic core and the grafted PEO br...

Recent advances in synthetic materials sciences such as the incorporation of self-assembly, sol–gel, and layer-by-layer deposition chemistry have afforded the development of many interesting and potentially useful nanostructures. Among those, nanoarchitectures in which a core nanoparticle, often a transition metal, is encapsulated by an outer layer of a second material, typically a porous oxide...

SiO2/ZnS core/shell nanostructures have been synthesized at room temperature by a simple wet chemical method. The prepared materials are characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), infrared spectroscopy (IR), UV–vis spectroscopic and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) studies. X-ray diffraction pattern exhibits peaks correspond to the cubic phase of ZnS. Th...

An Al–6.3Li–0.07Sc–0.02Yb (at.%) alloy is subjected to a double-aging treatment to create nanoscale precipitates, which are studied by atom-probe tomography and transmission electron microscopy. After homogenization and quenching, Yb atoms form clusters exhibiting L12-like order. A first aging step at 325 C leads to a doubling of microhardness as a result of the formation of coherent precipitat...

The structure of core–shell latex particles of polymethylmethacrylate (the core) and polyurethane (the shell) have been investigated by methods of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and atom-force microscopy. A set of SAXS patterns has been obtained using contrast variation method. Indirect methods have been used to follow the evolution of distance distribution functions from SAXS for lattices...

Sn doped CuO nanotubes were synthesized by thermal oxidization of Cu/SnO(2) core-shell nanowires in air through the Kirkendall effect. The Cu/SnO(2) core-shell nanowires were sequentially electrodeposited by forming a SnO(2) shell followed by electrodeposition of the Cu core. After thermal treatment in air, the core-shell Cu/SnO(2) (13 +/- 2 nm thick shell on 128 +/- 15 nm in diameter core) nan...