Facile synthesis of gold and gold-based alloy nanowire networks using wormlike micelles as soft templates

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 843-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinpei Gao ◽  
Fei Lu ◽  
Bin Dong ◽  
Yizhi Liu ◽  
Yanan Gao ◽  
...  

Zwitterionic wormlike micelles with AuCl4− counterions were fabricated for the first time as the soft templates for colloidal synthesis of gold and gold-based alloy nanowire networks.

CrystEngComm ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junhua Zhao ◽  
Qin Hu ◽  
Yinlin Lei ◽  
Chuanhua Gao ◽  
Pinjie Zhang ◽  
...  

As a powerful self-assembly process, the soft-template method has attracted considerable scientific interest, but there is a challenge associated with ultralong hydroxyapatite nanowire (HAPNWs) with several tens of micro-scale length....


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine A. Kelly ◽  
Judith E. Houston ◽  
Rachel Evans

Understanding the dynamic self-assembly behaviour of azobenzene photosurfactants (AzoPS) is crucial to advance their use in controlled release applications such as<i></i>drug delivery and micellar catalysis. Currently, their behaviour in the equilibrium <i>cis-</i>and <i>trans</i>-photostationary states is more widely understood than during the photoisomerisation process itself. Here, we investigate the time-dependent self-assembly of the different photoisomers of a model neutral AzoPS, <a>tetraethylene glycol mono(4′,4-octyloxy,octyl-azobenzene) </a>(C<sub>8</sub>AzoOC<sub>8</sub>E<sub>4</sub>) using small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). We show that the incorporation of <i>in-situ</i>UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy with SANS allows the scattering profile, and hence micelle shape, to be correlated with the extent of photoisomerisation in real-time. It was observed that C<sub>8</sub>AzoOC<sub>8</sub>E<sub>4</sub>could switch between wormlike micelles (<i>trans</i>native state) and fractal aggregates (under UV light), with changes in the self-assembled structure arising concurrently with changes in the absorption spectrum. Wormlike micelles could be recovered within 60 seconds of blue light illumination. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time the degree of AzoPS photoisomerisation has been tracked <i>in</i><i>-situ</i>through combined UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy-SANS measurements. This technique could be widely used to gain mechanistic and kinetic insights into light-dependent processes that are reliant on self-assembly.


Nanoscale ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (34) ◽  
pp. 14248-14253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weidong Han ◽  
Bin Ding ◽  
Mira Park ◽  
Fuhai Cui ◽  
Zafar Khan Ghouri ◽  
...  

Luminescent and amorphous La2O3–ZrO2:Eu3+ nanofibrous membranes with robust softness were prepared for the first time by a facile electrospinning method.


Author(s):  
Dipanwita Roy ◽  
Piyush Kanti Sarkar ◽  
Amit Dalui ◽  
Uttam Kumar Ghorai ◽  
Dharmendra K Gupta ◽  
...  

Stokes shift engineering of quantum dots is an attractive approach to enhance luminescence efficiency by reducing reabsorption losses. We report for the first time the colloidal synthesis route of a...


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 530-537
Author(s):  
Jialin Liu ◽  
Jilei Cao ◽  
Rongfang Liu ◽  
Ruifeng Li ◽  
Yan Qiao ◽  
...  

The reactivity patterns of the modified Huisgen zwitterions derived from arylazocarboxylates toward 1,2-dicarbonyl compounds have been studied for the first time for a facile synthesis of N-aryl–N-acyl hydrazones.


2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (24) ◽  
pp. 9574-9582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiamin Zhou ◽  
Gang Xu ◽  
Zewu Zhang ◽  
Hongyong Wang

A Cu2MoS4/MWCNT electrocatalyst with enhanced HER performance was synthesized for the first time, in which Cu2MoS4 nanosheets are intimately interlinked by MWCNTs.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (23) ◽  
pp. 17667-17675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-Wen Shi ◽  
Chang Liu ◽  
Chi He ◽  
Jun Li ◽  
Chong Xie ◽  
...  

C-doped TiO2 nanoplates (CTNP) with exposed {001} facets were synthesized for the first time. The obtained CTNP presented high visible-light photocatalytic activity. A reasonable mechanism of photocatalysis on CTNP under visible light was proposed.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (108) ◽  
pp. 89105-89112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pandi Shan ◽  
Chenggang Niu ◽  
Dawei Huang ◽  
Guangming Zeng ◽  
Huan Zhang

Highly efficient Ag/AgCl/BiPO4 plasmonic photocatalyst was synthesized for the first time. The catalyst showed excellent visible photocatalytic activity and high stability. A surface plasmon resonance mechanism was investigated.


2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 986-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Abhijith ◽  
Richa Sharma ◽  
Rajeev Ranjan ◽  
M. S. Thakur

In the present study we explored metal enhanced bioluminescence in luciferase enzymes for the first time.


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