Correspondence: Milagros Ramos Gomez Centro de Tecnología Biomédica, Parque Científico y Tecnológico de la Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain Tel +34 91 336 4651 Fax +34 91 336 6828 Email [email protected] Background: Metallic nanorods are promising agents for a wide range of biomedical applications. In this study, we devel...

Co-doped titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanorods with different doping concentrations were fabricated by a molten salt method. It is found that the morphology of TiO2 changes from nanorods to nanoparticles with increasing doping concentration. The mechanism for the structure and phase evolution is investigated in detail. Undoped TiO2 nanorods show strong ferromagnetism at room temperature, whereas inc...

This paper demonstrates the use of aqueous multiphase systems (MuPSs) as media for rate-zonal centrifugation to separate nanoparticles of different shapes and sizes. The properties of MuPSs do not change with time or during centrifugation; this stability facilitates sample collection after separation. A three-phase system demonstrates the separation of the reaction products (nanorods, nanospher...

AgInSe2 nanorods with a previously unknown orthorhombic phase isostructural to AgInS2 have been prepared by the thermolysis of [(PPh3)2AgIn(SeC{O}Ph)4] in a mixture of oleylamine (OA) and dodecanethiol (DT) at 185 degrees C. A systematic study indicates that the ratio of surfactants is crucial for obtaining both monodispersed nanorods and the new orthorhombic phase AgInSe2. The AgInSe2 nanorods...

Selected properties of photovoltaic (PV) structures based on n-type zinc oxide nanorods grown by a low temperature hydrothermal method on p-type silicon substrates (100) are investigated. PV structures were covered with thin films of Al doped ZnO grown by atomic layer deposition acting as transparent electrodes. The investigated PV structures differ in terms of the shapes and densities of their...

The reaction of single-component molecular crystal nanorods with a second species to form cocrystal nanorods is described. Single-component crystalline nanorods, composed of 9-methylanthracene (9-MA), are grown in a porous anodic aluminum oxide template. These templated rods are then exposed to a suspension of 1,2,4,5-tetracyanobenzene (TCNB) in water, which slowly diffuses into the 9-MA rods o...

This article presents a study on the growth process for the template-based growth of TiO2 nanorods by sol electrophoretic deposition, through both experiment and simulation. Uniformly sized nanorods of approximately 45–200 nm in diameter and 10–60 μm in length can be grown over large areas with near unidirectional alignment. The nanorods have the desired stoichiometric chemical composition and ...

Silver nanorods (Ag NR) have been successfully synthesized by wet chemical method (seed-mediated growth) utilizing 10 nm silver nanospheres as a seed material and subsequent reduction of silver precursor with a weak reducing agent (ascorbic acid) along with a directing surfactant. The effect of synthesis temperature on the structure, morphology, composition and optical properties were investiga...

We report a novel technique for generating polymer fluorescent barcode nanorods by reactive ion etching of polymer multilayer films using nonclose-packed (ncp) colloidal microsphere arrays as masks. The fluorescent polymer multilayer films were spin-coated on a substrate, and ncp microsphere arrays were transferred onto these films. The exposed polymers were then etched away selectively, leavin...