Adsorb and shuttle (A/S) and interfacial charge transfer are the two major strategies for overcoming recombination in photocatalysis in this era of nanoparticle composites. Their relationships are considered here. A review of key literature is accompanied by a presentation of three new experiments within the overall aim of assessing the relation of these strategies. The cases presented include:...

Manipulating structure, defects and composition of a material at the atomic scale for enhancing its physical or mechanical properties is referred to as nanostructuring. Here, by combining advanced microscopy techniques, we unveil how formation of highly regular nano-arrays of nanoparticles doubles the strength of an Fe-based alloy, doped with Ti, Mo, and V, from 500 MPa to 1 GPa, upon prolonged...

To investigate molecular consequence of magnetic field to C. elegans, Fe3O4 nanoparticles were incorporated into the culture media of C. elegans and the nematodes were grown under magnetic field for 4 days. For the expermental group, we observed a 30 to 50 percents reduction in the moving speed. However, only nematode at L4 stage exhibited this difference. To explore molecular mechanisms affect...

We investigate the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) of rhodamine 6G (R6G) adsorbed on Au nanoparticles attached to InP nanowires. We find that nanowire arrays act as frameworks for effective SERS substrates with a significantly higher Raman signal sensitivity than a planar framework of Au nanoparticles adsorbed two-dimensionally on a flat surface. The SERS signal displays a clear polari...

The mechanical behavior of TiO2 nanoparticle-reinforced resin-based dental composites was characterized in this work using a three-dimensional nanoscale representative volume element. The impacts of nanoparticle volume fraction, aspect ratio, stiffness, and interphase zone between the resin matrix and nanoparticle on the bulk properties of the composite were characterized. Results clearly demon...

The increasing use of nanomaterials raises concerns about the long-term effects of chronic nanoparticle exposure on human health. However, nanoparticle exposure is difficult to evaluate non-invasively using current measurement techniques. Here we show that the skin is an important site of nanoparticle accumulation following systemic administration. Mice injected with high doses of gold nanopart...

An eco-friendly green mediated synthesis of inorganic nanoparticle is a fast growing research in the limb of nanotechnology. This study reports the synthesis of silver Nanoparticle by using commercially available spice Elettaria cardamomom without the use of toxic chemicals. Visually, the formation of silver Nanoparticle was confirmed by observing the colour changes from pale yellow to dark bro...

with the rise in the use of afm (atomic force microscope), we have witnessed a growing use of atomic microscope based nanorobots in the precise displacement of various particles. there are certain limitations to the application of nanorobots in the moving of nanoparticles. one of the most important of these limitations is the lack of an appropriate image feedback concurrent with the displaci...

The convergence of biofabrication with nanotechnology is largely unexplored but enables geometrical control of cell-biomaterial arrangement combined with controlled drug delivery and release. As a step towards integration of these two fields of research, this study demonstrates that modulation of electrostatic nanoparticle-polymer and nanoparticle-nanoparticle interactions can be used for tunin...

This paper proposes a high precision method for nanoparticle counting and sizing using a microring resonator-waveguide system that contains a flow-through nanopore. Theoretical analysis is carried out based on the coupled-mode theory, showing that when the nanoparticle passes the nanopore a temporal pulse signal can be detected and that the peak amplitude depends linearly on the nanoparticle vo...