The safety and toxicity of nanoparticles are of growing concern despite their significant scientific interests and promising potentials in many applications. The properties of nanoparticles depend not only on the size but also the structure, microstructure and surface coating. These in turn are controlled by the synthesis and processing conditions. The dependence of cytotoxicity on particle siz...

The novel SiO2 net-like nanobelts have been successfully fabricated on Au-coated Si substrates by a simple thermal evaporation of CdS powder. The as-synthesized SiO2 nanostructures were characterized by using scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), respectively. The as-grown SiO2 net-like nanobelts are rather uniformly...

Large-area submonolayer and monolayer Au nanoparticle (NP) arrays with sub-5 nm nanobowl gaps for giant electromagnetic enhancement were created by partially embedding SiO2-coated Au NP arrays in an electrochemically deposited Au film, followed by the removal of the SiO2 shells.

Here we demonstrate the in situ formation of ultra-small gold nanoparticles (<2 nm) finely dispersed on a binary solid carrier, i.e. a mesoporous SiO2 coated graphene oxide (GO) nanosheet. The as-synthesized Au-SiO2-GO composite has shown high catalytic activity and reusability for chemical reactions under mild conditions.

CoFe2O4 nanoparticles were uniformly anchored on reduced graphene oxide by a facile solvothermal method. The obtained CoFe2O4/reduced graphene oxide (CoFe2O4/rGO) hybrid was employed as catalyst for Li-O2 batteries. It could effectively lower the ORR (oxygen reduction reaction) and OER (oxygen evolution reaction) overpotentials of the batteries and deliver a large capacity of 12 235 mA h grGO(-...

In this paper, we investigated the functional imaging properties of magnetic microspheres composed of magnetic core and CdTe quantum dots in the silica shell functionalized with folic acid (FA). The preparation procedure included the preparation of chitosan-coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles (CS-coated Fe3O4 NPs) prepared by a one-pot solvothermal method, the reaction between carboxylic and amino group...

The effect of Cerium and Cobalt substitution in Zinc ferrites with respect to their electrical and magnetic properties has been investigated in this paper. The nanoparticles of Zn1-x-y Cex Coy Fe2O4 ( x = 0.012, 0014, 0.016, 0.018; y = 0.01, 0.001, 0014, 0.016) is prepared by sol gel route and sintered in a microwave furnace. The nano size, structure and composition of Ce-Co doped Zinc ferrite ...