Advances in nanoscale processing and simulation have led to the capability to directly control the mechanical properties of a material through change of its structural makeup at the nanoscale. A novel class of mechanomutable materials in which mechanical properties can be both tunable and reversible via in situ modifications of a material’s nanostructure through stimuli such as pH, light, or el...

Here we present an alternative, new, unconventional lithographic technique developed to create dense and multilevel nanostructure pattern transfer using a highly accurate polyurethane acrylate (PU, MINS101m, Minuta Tech.) mold and a polyelectrolyte multilayer as the adhesion promotion layer. Specifically, we demonstrate the pattern transfer of periodic 80 nm lines with 400 nm height and complex...

The hexagonal zinc oxide coated nickel (Ni/ZnO) nanostructure photocatalyst has successfully been prepared by the reduction of nickel chloride hexahydrate using hydrazine hydrate through the solvothermal process at 140 °C followed by surface modification of the product by the reflux method at 110 °C for 1 h. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern showed that the 'as prepared' sample consists of fa...

The study describes chitosan membrane platform modified with nanostructure pattern which using nanotechnology to fabricate. The cell-substrate interaction between neuro-2a neuroblasts cell lines and chitosan membrane (flat, nanostructure and nanostructure pattern types) was investigated. The adhered morphology of neuro-2a cells depends on the topography of chitosan surface. We have found that n...

Silicon nanostructure surface fabricated from metal-assisted etching have been demonstrated as high sensitivity matrix-free laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry chip. The silicon nanostructure morphology was found to have direct effect to the mass spectrometry ionization efficiency. Creation of different silicon nanostructure morphologies by changing the metal thickness, etching time a...

Recently, another alternative route to the use of purely polymeric structures to attain fl exible Bragg mirrors, and in which enhanced dielectric contrast is achieved, has been successfully demonstrated. [ 22,23 ] Such method takes advantage of multilayers possessing an open porous and interconnected network, which arises as a result of piling up layers of nanoparticles, to infi ltrate a polyme...

Flower-like ZnO nanostructures were synthesized by decomposing Zn(OH)2 in 1,4- butanediol at 105 °C for 36 h. Size of flower-like ZnO nanostructure can be controlled by pH of the aqueous solution. In the preparation of flower-like ZnO nanostructure, zinc nitrate was used as a precursor. The morphology and microstructure of flower-like ZnO nanostructure have been characterized by scanning electr...

in this study, pyrite was produced by hydrothermal precipitation from the reaction between feso4 and na2s2o3 at high pressure and high temperature in a stirred reactor. the solid product was purified by means of solvent extraction to remove sulfur. powder was characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem) and thermal analyses. results indicated that pyrite was prod...

in this research, mechanical alloying was used to produce ti-50al, ti-45al-5cr and ti-45al-5w (at%) alloys. the effect of ternary addition (cr and w) on microstructure and production efficiency of tial alloy were investigated. alloying was performed in a planetary mill and the milling time varying from 5 to 70h. the structural evaluation in these powders was done by x-ray diffraction (xrd) tech...

in this work, the synthesis of porous structure of cadmium oxide with multilayered sheet-like morphology in nano-meter size using adipic acid as soft template by solvothermal/thermal decomposition process is reported. chemical analyses exhibited that the formation of porous sheet-like structure is originated from bidentate coordination mode of adipate units to cd-center. it was found that the c...