Depth-resolved measurements of the photoluminescence of Si implanted and annealed SiO2 films on Si have been performed to determine the depth distribution of luminescent Si nanocrystals. Si nanocrystals with diameters ranging from ;2 to 5 nm were formed by implantation of 35 keV Si ions into a 110-nm-thick thermally grown SiO2 film on Si~100! at a fluence of 6310 16 Si/cm, followed by a thermal...

Transistors with exfoliated two-dimensional (2D) materials on a SiO2/Si substrate have been applied and have been proven effective in a wide range of applications, such as circuits, memory, photodetectors, gas sensors, optical modulators, valleytronics, and spintronics. However, these devices usually suffer from limited gate control because of the thick SiO2 gate dielectric and the lack of reli...

Graphene has attracted increasing attention for potential applications in biotechnology due to its excellent electronic property and biocompatibility. Here we use both Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and Gram-negative Escherichia coli (E. coli) to investigate the antibacterial actions of large-area monolayer graphene film on conductor Cu, semiconductor Ge and insulator SiO2. The...

We present here comparative assessments of murine lung toxicity (biocompatibility) after in vitro and in vivo exposures to carbon (C-SiO2-etched), carbon-silica (C-SiO2), carbon-cobalt-silica (C-Co-SiO2), and carbon-cobalt oxide-silica (C-Co3O4-SiO2) nanoparticles. These nanoparticles have potential applications in clinical medicine and bioimaging, and thus their possible adverse events require...

In this work, Fe3O4@SiO2 nanoparticles were coated with mesoporous silica shell by S-N+I- pathway by using anionic surfactant (S-) and co-structure directing agent (N+). The role of co-structure directing agent (CSDA) is to assist the electrostatic interaction between negatively charged silica layers and the negatively charged surfactant molecules. Prior to the mesoporous shell formation step, ...

The use of a microwave assisted solvent-free technique for silica coating of iron magnetic nanoparticles (Fe3O4-MNPs) and their functionalization with three aliphatic diamines: 1,2-ethylenediamine (1,2EDA), 1,5-pentanediamine (1,5PDA) and 1.8-octanediamine (1,8-ODA), were successfully achieved in a very short time. Only 60 min were needed for the nano-adsorbent modification as compared with mor...

The surface charge properties of two SiO2 and three Al2O3 mineral adsorbents with varying degrees of framework porosity were investigated using discontinuous titration and ion adsorption methodologies. Points of zero net charge (p.z.n.c) for porous and non-porous SiO2 were <2.82 and for Al2O3 minerals ranged from 6.47–6.87. Silica surfaces possessed very slight negative charge in the acid pH ra...

The introduction of toxic chemicals into the environment can result in water pollution leading to degradation biodiversity as well human health. This study presents a new approach using metal oxides (Al2O3 and SiO2) modified with plasmonic (silver, Ag) nanoparticles (NPs)-based nanofluid (NF) formulation for environmental remediation purposes. Firstly, we prepared Al2O3 SiO2 NFs different conce...

Engineered amorphous silica nanoparticles (SiO2 NPs), due to simple and low cost production, are increasingly used in commercial products and produced on an industrial scale. Despite the potential benefits, there is a concern that exposure to certain types of SiO2 NPs may lead to adverse health effects. As some NPs can cross the blood--brain barrier and may, in addition, reach the central nervo...

The transport coefficients of three ionic liquids, lithium bromide ~LiBr!, rubidium bromide ~RbBr!, and molten silica (SiO2) are calculated by the mixture mode-coupling theory. The static partial structure factors required are obtained from the interionic interaction potential by the Ornstein– Zernike/hypernetted-chain integral equation. The anomalous pressure dependence of the transport proper...