Research
Stable hydrophobic nanocomposites of magnetic nanoparticles and clay are prepared by the self-assembly of magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles on surfaces of exfoliated clay platelets. Due to the attractive interactio...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:22
Published on: 23 August 2017
Review
Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) have attracted attention as a next-generation of photovoltaics (PVs) capable of a tunable band gap and low-cost solution process. Understanding and controlling the surface of CQDs...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:21
Published on: 7 August 2017
Research
We confirmed the influence of ZnO nanoparticle size and residual water on performance of all inorganic perovskite solar cells. By decreasing the size of the ZnO nanoparticles, the short-circuit current density (J...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:18
Published on: 28 July 2017
Erratum
Nano Convergence 2017 4:20
Published on: 27 July 2017
The original article was published in Nano Convergence 2017 4:16
Review
Hydrogen has received significant attention as a promising future energy carrier due to its high energy density and environmentally friendly nature. In particular, the electrocatalytic generation of hydrogen f...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:19
Published on: 25 July 2017
Research
Low carbon ferritic steel alloyed with Ti, Mo and Cu was hot rolled and interrupt cooled to produce nano-sized precipitates of copper and (Ti,Mo)C carbides. The steel had a tensile strength of 840 MPa, an incr...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:16
Published on: 3 July 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in Nano Convergence 2017 4:20
Research
Quantum characteristics of a driven series RLC nanoelectronic circuit whose capacitance varies with time are studied using an invariant operator method together with a unitary transformation approach. In parti...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:17
Published on: 29 June 2017
Research
We report on the oxidation behavior of AlN/CrN multilayers at 900 °C, deposited by radio frequency magnetron sputtering. It is shown that oxidation in this system is controlled by diffusion of Cr towards the s...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:15
Published on: 27 June 2017
Research
A numerical method using the modified squeeze model is proposed in this paper in order to overcome the limitation of the established squeeze equation and obtain filling ratios for nanoimprint lithography (NIL)...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:14
Published on: 13 June 2017
Research
Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is an electrical insulator with a large band gap of 5 eV and a good thermal conductor of which melting point reaches about 3000 °C. Due to these properties, much attention was gi...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:13
Published on: 26 May 2017
Review
Nanotechnology is the field which deals with fabrication of materials with dimensions in the nanometer range by manipulating atoms and molecules. Various synthesis routes exist for the one, two and three dimen...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:12
Published on: 10 May 2017
Research
We present a facile and scalable coating method based on controlled airbrushing, which is suitable for conformal resin coating in continuous roll-to-roll (R2R) nanoimprint lithography (NIL) process. By control...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:11
Published on: 1 May 2017
Review
Biomolecular engineering can be used to purposefully manipulate biomolecules, such as peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and lipids, within the framework of the relations among their structures, functions and p...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:9
Published on: 24 April 2017
Review
Nanomaterials have recently been found to exhibit auxetic behavior, or a negative Poisson’s ratio, whereby the lateral dimensions of the material expand, rather than shrink, in response to applied tensile load...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:10
Published on: 16 April 2017
Review
Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (spin-STM/S) have been successfully applied to magnetic characterizations of individual nanostructures. Spin-STM/S is often performed in magnetic f...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:8
Published on: 6 April 2017
Review
Quantum systems in confined geometries allow novel physical properties that cannot easily be attained in their bulk form. These properties are governed by the changes in the band structure and the lattice symm...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:6
Published on: 29 March 2017
Research
Catalysts for oxygen evolution reactions (OER) are at the heart of key renewable energy technologies, and development of non-precious metal catalysts with high activity and stability remain a great challenge i...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:7
Published on: 28 March 2017
Research
Cell fixation is an essential step to preserve cell samples for a wide range of biological assays involving histochemical and cytochemical analysis. Paraformaldehyde (PFA) has been widely used as a cross-linki...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:5
Published on: 20 March 2017
Research
Microfluidic devices where the microchannel walls were decorated with micro and nanostructures were fabricated using 3D nanomolding. Using 3D molded microfluidic devices with microchannel walls decorated with ...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:4
Published on: 1 March 2017
Review
Artificially structured materials with unit cells at sub-wavelength scale, known as metamaterials, have been widely used to precisely control and manipulate waves thanks to their unconventional properties whic...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:3
Published on: 7 February 2017
Review
In the field of regenerative medicine, stem cells are highly promising due to their innate ability to generate multiple types of cells that could replace/repair damaged parts of human organs and tissues. It ha...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:2
Published on: 25 January 2017
Research
Random lasing is desired in plasmonics nanostructures through surface plasmon amplification. In this study, tunable random lasing behavior was observed in dye molecules attached with Au nanorods (NRs), Au nano...
Nano Convergence 2017 4:1
Published on: 9 January 2017
Letters
The water splitting properties of InGaN photoanodes equipped with ZnO nanowires were examined in this study. Over the solar spectrum range, the absorbance exhibited a remarkable increase due to the enhanced li...
Nano Convergence 2016 3:34
Published on: 14 December 2016
Research
As metal nanostructures demonstrated extraordinary plasmon resonance, their optical characteristics have widely been investigated in photo-electronic applications. However, there has been no clear demonstratio...
Nano Convergence 2016 3:33
Published on: 7 December 2016
Review
The utilization of molecular beacon (MB) biosensor probes to detect nucleic acid targets has received enormous interest within the scientific community. This interest has been stimulated by the operational qua...
Nano Convergence 2016 3:32
Published on: 1 December 2016
