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View article: Camellia Sinensis Extracts Embedded in Semipermeable Nanocapsules as Active Ingredient for Dental Adhesives: Biomaterial Synthesis and Effect on the Bond to Human Dentin
Camellia Sinensis Extracts Embedded in Semipermeable Nanocapsules as Active Ingredient for Dental Adhesives: Biomaterial Synthesis and Effect on the Bond to Human Dentin Open
The integration of GTE-nanocapsules into an experimental adhesive proved to be a promising concept for maintaining bond strength and reliability during aging. In addition, the used combination of vibrational spectroscopy and high spatial r…
View article: Near-Field Imaging of Hybrid Surface Plasmon-Phonon Polaritons on n-GaN Semiconductor
Near-Field Imaging of Hybrid Surface Plasmon-Phonon Polaritons on n-GaN Semiconductor Open
Near-field imaging of the hybrid surface plasmon-phonon polaritons on the n-GaN semiconductor was performed using a scattering scanning near-field optical microscope at the selected frequencies of 920 cm−1 and 570 cm−1. The experimental me…
View article: Chemical fingerprint of bacteriophages by infrared nano-spectroscopy
Chemical fingerprint of bacteriophages by infrared nano-spectroscopy Open
Bacteriophage (phages) are naturally occurring nanoscale antimicrobial agents that can self-replicate at infection sites and selectively eliminate pathogenic bacteria. Significant heterogeneity exists in phage properties such as morphology…
View article: Correction: Nanophotonics of mid-infrared plasmon-polaritons at interfaces between metals and two-dimensional crystals
Correction: Nanophotonics of mid-infrared plasmon-polaritons at interfaces between metals and two-dimensional crystals Open
Correction for ‘Nanophotonics of mid-infrared plasmon-polaritons at interfaces between metals and two-dimensional crystals’ by Flávio H. Feres, et al. , Nanoscale , 2025, 17 , 13229–13237, https://doi.org/10.1039/D4NR04543B.
View article: Optical library of Ga2O3 polymorphs
Optical library of Ga2O3 polymorphs Open
Gallium oxide is a novel advanced material gaining increasing attention for its unique combination of functional properties. It forms in several phases or polymorphs - α, β, γ, and κ - having variable properties because of different lattic…
View article: Self-assembling of multilayered polymorphs with ion beams
Self-assembling of multilayered polymorphs with ion beams Open
Polymorphism contributes to the diversity of nature, so that even materials having identical chemical compositions exhibit variations in properties because of different lattice symmetries. Thus, if stacked together into multilayers, polymo…
View article: Terahertz nanoscopy: Advances, challenges, and the road ahead
Terahertz nanoscopy: Advances, challenges, and the road ahead Open
Exploring nanoscale material properties through light-matter interactions is essential to unveil new phenomena and manipulate materials at the atomic level, paving the way for ground-breaking advancements in nanotechnology and materials sc…
View article: Chemical Fingerprint of Bacteriophages by Infrared Nano-Spectroscopy
Chemical Fingerprint of Bacteriophages by Infrared Nano-Spectroscopy Open
View article: Protective coatings for ceramic artefacts exposed to UV ageing
Protective coatings for ceramic artefacts exposed to UV ageing Open
The commercial acrylic copolymer Paraloid B72 (PB72) and a synthesized nanostructured material (AMF) bearing silsesquioxane, methacrylate and fluorine units were analyzed to assess their performances as protective coatings for the conserva…
View article: Nanoscale insights into the local structural rearrangements of amyloid-β induced by bexarotene
Nanoscale insights into the local structural rearrangements of amyloid-β induced by bexarotene Open
We report on the influence of aggregation suppressor on the secondary structure of amyloid-β species. The applied multimodal approach combining nanospectroscopic studies and molecular dynamics enabled to follow the interaction between the …
View article: Nano-FTIR Spectroscopy of Surface Confluent Polydopamine Films – What is the Role of Deposition Time and Substrate Material?
Nano-FTIR Spectroscopy of Surface Confluent Polydopamine Films – What is the Role of Deposition Time and Substrate Material? Open
View article: Micro and nano-scale compartments guide the structural transition of silk protein monomers into silk fibers
Micro and nano-scale compartments guide the structural transition of silk protein monomers into silk fibers Open
View article: Surface engineering of mixed conjugated/polyelectrolyte brushes – Tailoring interface structure and electrical properties
Surface engineering of mixed conjugated/polyelectrolyte brushes – Tailoring interface structure and electrical properties Open
View article: Protective coatings for ceramic artefacts exposed to UV ageing
Protective coatings for ceramic artefacts exposed to UV ageing Open
The commercial acrylic copolymer Paraloid B72 (PB72) and a newly synthesized nanostructured material (AMF) bearing silsesquioxane, methacrylate and fluorine units were analyzed to assess their performances as protective coatings for the co…
View article: Nanoscale FTIR and Mechanical Mapping of Plant Cell Walls for Understanding Biomass Deconstruction
Nanoscale FTIR and Mechanical Mapping of Plant Cell Walls for Understanding Biomass Deconstruction Open
Nano-FTIR and PeakForce quantitative nanomechanical mapping (PF QNM) are new AFM-based techniques that can be applied to plant tissues to get high-resolution spatial distribution of features that are unavailable from bulk characterization.…
View article: Protective coatings for ceramic artefacts exposed to UV ageing
Protective coatings for ceramic artefacts exposed to UV ageing Open
The paper reports a comparative evaluation on the protective efficiency of two polymer coatings for ceramic artefacts (Neolithic Cucuteni pottery) under UV ageing. This dataset contains the raw data for the contact angle measurements, atom…
View article: Nano-Infrared Imaging of Primary Neurons
Nano-Infrared Imaging of Primary Neurons Open
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) accounts for about 70% of neurodegenerative diseases and is a cause of cognitive decline and death for one-third of seniors. AD is currently underdiagnosed, and it cannot be effectively prevented. Aggregation of am…
View article: Broadband mid-infrared plasmon-polaritons in metallic-dielectric interfaces
Broadband mid-infrared plasmon-polaritons in metallic-dielectric interfaces Open
We report real-space near-field images of mid-infrared (IR) surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves in the insulating/metal/insulating (IMI) heterostructure: hexagonal boron nitride/gold/silicon dioxide (hBN/Au/SiO2). The SPPs are…
View article: Author Correction: Nanodiamond surface chemistry controls assembly of polypyrrole and generation of photovoltage
Author Correction: Nanodiamond surface chemistry controls assembly of polypyrrole and generation of photovoltage Open
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
View article: Nanodiamond surface chemistry controls assembly of polypyrrole and generation of photovoltage
Nanodiamond surface chemistry controls assembly of polypyrrole and generation of photovoltage Open
Nanoscale composite of detonation nanodiamond (DND) and polypyrrole (PPy) as a representative of organic light-harvesting polymers is explored for energy generation, using nanodiamond as an inorganic electron acceptor. We present a technol…
View article: One-Pot Confined Epitaxial Growth of 2D Heterostructure Arrays
One-Pot Confined Epitaxial Growth of 2D Heterostructure Arrays Open
Graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have attracted intensive interests in very recent years because of their unique physical and chemical properties. With similar crystal structures, graphene and h-BN pose great potential for const…
View article: Correction to Label-Free Infrared Spectroscopy and Imaging of Single Phospholipid Bilayers with Nanoscale Resolution
Correction to Label-Free Infrared Spectroscopy and Imaging of Single Phospholipid Bilayers with Nanoscale Resolution Open
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVAddition/CorrectionNEXTORIGINAL ARTICLEThis notice is a correctionCorrection to Label-Free Infrared Spectroscopy and Imaging of Single Phospholipid Bilayers with Nanoscale ResolutionAdrian CernescuAdrian Ce…
View article: An ultra-stable 2.9 μm guided-wave chip laser and application to nano-spectroscopy
An ultra-stable 2.9 μm guided-wave chip laser and application to nano-spectroscopy Open
We present a configurable guided-wave planar glass-chip laser that produces low-noise and high-quality continuous-wave laser emission tunable from 2.82 to 2.95 µm. The laser has a low threshold and intrinsic power and mode stability attrib…
View article: Near-Field IR Orientational Spectroscopy of Silk
Near-Field IR Orientational Spectroscopy of Silk Open
Orientational dependence of the IR absorbing amide bands of silk is demonstrated from two orthogonal longitudinal and transverse microtome slices with a thickness of only ∼100 nm. Scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) which prefere…
View article: Near-Field IR Orientational Spectroscopy of Silk
Near-Field IR Orientational Spectroscopy of Silk Open
Orientational dependence of the IR absorbing amide bands of silk is demonstrated from two orthogonal longitudinal and transverse microtome slices only $\sim 100$~nm thick. A scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) which preferentiall…
View article: An Analysis of Isolated and Intact RBC Membranes—A Comparison of a Semiquantitative Approach by Means of FTIR, Nano-FTIR, and Raman Spectroscopies
An Analysis of Isolated and Intact RBC Membranes—A Comparison of a Semiquantitative Approach by Means of FTIR, Nano-FTIR, and Raman Spectroscopies Open
This work presents the potential of vibrational spectroscopy, Vis and NIR Raman spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) in reflection and transmission modes, and nano-FTIR microscopy to study the biochemical alteration…
View article: Raman imaging highlights biochemical heterogeneity of human eosinophils <i>versus</i> human eosinophilic leukaemia cell line
Raman imaging highlights biochemical heterogeneity of human eosinophils <i>versus</i> human eosinophilic leukaemia cell line Open
Summary Eosinophils are acidophilic granulocytes that develop in the bone marrow. Although their population contributes only to approximately 1–6% of all leucocytes present in the human blood, they possess a wide range of specific function…
View article: Nanoscale optical and structural characterisation of silk
Nanoscale optical and structural characterisation of silk Open
The nanoscale composition of silk defining its unique properties via a hierarchial structural anisotropy needs to be analysed at the highest spatial resolution of tens of nanometers corresponding to the size of fibrils made of β-sheets, wh…
View article: Nanoscale optical and structural characterisation of silk
Nanoscale optical and structural characterisation of silk Open
Background: Nanoscale composition of silk defining its unique properties via a hierarchical structural anisotropy has to be analysed at the highest spatial resolution of tens-of-nanometers corresponding to the size of fibrils made of b-she…
View article: Structure-Function Correlative Microscopy of Peritubular and Intertubular Dentine
Structure-Function Correlative Microscopy of Peritubular and Intertubular Dentine Open
Peritubular dentine (PTD) and intertubular dentine (ITD) were investigated by 3D correlative Focused Ion Beam (FIB)-Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)-Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) tomography, tapping mode Atomic Force Microscopy (A…