Intracellular chemical reactions generally constitute reaction-diffusion systems located inside nanostructured compartments like the cytosol, nucleus, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi, and mitochondrion. Understanding the properties of such systems requires quantitative information about solute diffusion. Here we present a novel approach that allows determination of the solvent-dependent solute dif...

Silicon-hydrogen crystalline models are proposed to estimate theoretical hydrogen storage capacity in porous silicon media with nanostructure features like cubic nodules, columnar forests and thin wall honeycomb like networks. To simulate these nanostructure features and their hydrogen storage capacities, three basic crystalline types (cubic, column and plate) have been developed as building bl...

DNA nanostructures are versatile templates for low cost, high resolution nanofabrication. However, due to the limited chemical stability of pure DNA structures, their applications in nanofabrication have long been limited to low temperature processes or solution phase reactions. Here, we demonstrate the use of DNA nanostructure as a template for high temperature, solid-state chemistries. We sho...

A graphene-based on-chip plasmonic nanostructure composed of a plasmonic bus waveguide side-coupled with a U-shaped and a rectangular nanocavities has been proposed and modeled by using the finite element method in this paper. The dynamic tunability of the plasmon-induced transparency (PIT) windows has been investigated. The results reveal that the PIT effects can be tuned via modifying the che...

We demonstrate the surface-plasmon-induced enhancement of Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)using a model multilayer core-shell nanostructure consisting of an Au core and surrounding FRET pairs, i.e., CdSe quantum dot donors and S101 dye acceptors. The multilayer configuration was demonstrated to exhibit synergistic effects of surface plasmon energy transfer from the metal to the CdSe and...

We report a versatile water-based method for transferring nanostructures onto surfaces of various shapes and compositions. The transfer occurs through the intercalation of a layer of water between a hydrophilic substrate and a hydrophobic nanostructure (for example, graphene flakes, carbon nanotubes, metallic nanostructures, quantum dots, etc.) locked within a hydrophobic polymer thin film. As ...

Silicon has a large specific capacity which is an order of magnitude beyond that of conventional graphite, making it a promising anode material for lithium ion batteries. However, the large volume changes (∼ 300%) during cycling caused material pulverization and instability of the solid-electrolyte interphase resulting in poor cyclability which prevented its commercial application. Here, we hav...

Silicon nanostructure patterning with tight geometry control is an important challenge at the bottom level. In that context, stress based controlled oxidation appears to be an efficient tool for precise nanofabrication. Here, we investigate the stress-retarded oxidation phenomenon in various silicon nanostructures (nanobeams, nanorings and nanowires) at both the experimental and the theoretical...

We have investigated hysteresis curves and magnetization reversal mechanisms in permalloy wire-tube nanostructures when an external magnetic field is applied perpendicular to the axis of nanostructure, x direction. Our results show that nanotube reverses its through wave mechanism, while nanowire does so pseudo-coherent rotation, according literature. The nanostructure exhibits a more complex w...

The great gift of x-ray crystallography has made us almost complacent in our ability to locate the three-dimensional coordinates of atoms in a crystal with a precision of around 10−4 nm. However, the powerful methods of crystallography break down for structures in which order only extends over a few nanometers. In fact, as we near the one hundred year mark since the birth of crystallography, we...