Nanoparticle-on-mirror pairs: building blocks for remote spectroscopies

Dynamic Covalent Nanoparticle Building Blocks

Rational and generalisable methods for engineering surface functionality will be crucial to realising the technological potential of nanomaterials. Nanoparticle-bound dynamic covalent exchange combines the error-correcting and environment-responsive features of equilibrium processes with the stability, structural precision, and vast diversity of covalent chemistry, defining a new and powerful a...

Java Mirrors: Building Blocks for Remote Interaction

Java mirror objects are building blocks for integrating web-based with high performance applications. This paper demonstrates the utility of mirror objects for construction of remote ‘portals’ via which scientists or engineers can view the results of ongoing large-scale simulations or physical processes, and even control them, from a wide variety of remote platforms. A sample portal constructed...

DNA-nanoparticle superlattices formed from anisotropic building blocks.

Directional bonding interactions in solid-state atomic lattices dictate the unique symmetries of atomic crystals, resulting in a diverse and complex assortment of three-dimensional structures that exhibit a wide variety of material properties. Methods to create analogous nanoparticle superlattices are beginning to be realized, but the concept of anisotropy is still largely underdeveloped in mos...

Building Blocks for Nanotransporters

Making silica nanoparticle-covered graphene oxide nanohybrids as general building blocks for large-area superhydrophilic coatings.

We report a facile strategy to synthesize silica nanoparticles-coated graphene oxide (GO-SiO2) nanohybrids in a water-alcohol mixture at room temperature. AFM observations revealed that silica nanoparticles with ca. 50 nm in size were densely and evenly covered on graphene oxide sheets. Due to the space layer of silica nanoparticles, micro-scale GO-SiO2 hybrid plates could be individually dispe...