Nano LettersPub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03300
Yuting Shen, Shi Su, Tao Xu, Kuibo Yin, Kaishuai Yang* and Litao Sun*,
{"title":"In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Investigation on Oriented Attachment of Nanodiamonds","authors":"Yuting Shen, Shi Su, Tao Xu, Kuibo Yin, Kaishuai Yang* and Litao Sun*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03300","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03300","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Oriented attachment (OA) plays an important role in the assembly of nanoparticles and the regulation of their size and morphology, which is expected to be an effective means to modulate the properties of nanodiamonds (NDs). However, there remains a dearth of comprehensive investigation into the OA mechanism of NDs. Using in situ transmission electron microscopy, we conducted atomic-resolution investigation on the OA events of ND pairs under electron beam irradiation. The occurrence of an OA event is contingent upon the alignment between two ND surfaces, and the coalesced particles undergo recrystallization to form spherical shapes. Both experimental observations and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations reveal that ND pairs exhibit a preference for coalescing along the {111} surfaces. Additionally, MD simulations indicate that kinetic factors, such as contact surface area and contact angle, also influence the coalescence process.</p>","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"23 20","pages":"9602–9608"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41089881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano LettersPub Date : 2023-10-08DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02783
Vojtěch Kundrát, Rita Rosentsveig, Kristýna Bukvišová, Daniel Citterberg, Miroslav Kolíbal, Shachar Keren, Iddo Pinkas, Omer Yaffe, Alla Zak and Reshef Tenne*,
{"title":"Submillimeter-Long WS2 Nanotubes: The Pathway to Inorganic Buckypaper","authors":"Vojtěch Kundrát, Rita Rosentsveig, Kristýna Bukvišová, Daniel Citterberg, Miroslav Kolíbal, Shachar Keren, Iddo Pinkas, Omer Yaffe, Alla Zak and Reshef Tenne*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02783","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02783","url":null,"abstract":"<p >WS<sub>2</sub> nanotubes present many new technologies under development, including reinforced biocompatible polymers, membranes, photovoltaic-based memories, ferroelectric devices, etc. These technologies depend on the aspect ratio (length/diameter) of the nanotubes, which was limited to 100 or so. A new synthetic technique is presented, resulting in WS<sub>2</sub> nanotubes a few hundred micrometers long and diameters below 50 nm (aspect ratios of 2000–5000) in high yields. Preliminary investigation into the mechanistic aspects of the two-step synthesis reveals that W<sub>5</sub>O<sub>14</sub> nanowhisker intermediates are formed in the first step of the reaction instead of the ubiquitous W<sub>18</sub>O<sub>49</sub> nanowhiskers used in the previous syntheses. The electrical and photoluminescence properties of the long nanotubes were studied. WS<sub>2</sub> nanotube-based paper-like material was prepared via a wet-laying process, which could not be realized with the 10 μm long WS<sub>2</sub> nanotubes. Ultrafiltration of gold nanoparticles using the nanotube-paper membrane was demonstrated.</p>","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"23 22","pages":"10259–10266"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02783","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41090799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano LettersPub Date : 2023-10-08DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02651
Jie Hu, He Zheng*, Lei Li, Guoxujia Chen, Kaixuan Li, Meng Qi, Ying Zhang, Peili Zhao, Weiwei Meng, Shuangfeng Jia and Jianbo Wang*,
{"title":"Probing the Atomistic Reaction Pathways in CuO/C Catalysts","authors":"Jie Hu, He Zheng*, Lei Li, Guoxujia Chen, Kaixuan Li, Meng Qi, Ying Zhang, Peili Zhao, Weiwei Meng, Shuangfeng Jia and Jianbo Wang*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02651","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02651","url":null,"abstract":"<p >CuO<sub><i>x</i></sub>/C catalysts have been used in the selective catalytic reduction of NO<sub><i>x</i></sub> because of the exceptional low-temperature denitration (de-NO<sub><i>x</i></sub>) activity. A fundamental understanding of the reaction between CuO and C is critical for controlling the component of CuO<sub><i>x</i></sub>/C and thus optimizing the catalytic performance. In this study, a transmission electron microscope equipped with an <i>in situ</i> heating device was utilized to investigate the atomic-scale reaction between CuO and C. We report two reaction mechanisms relying on the volume ratio between C and CuO: (1) The reduction from CuO to Cu<sub>2</sub>O (when the ratio is < ∼31%); (2) the reduction of CuO into polycrystalline Cu (when the ratio is > ∼34%). The atomistic reduction pathway can be well interpreted by considering the diffusion of O vacancy through the first-principle calculations. The atomic-scale exploration of CuO/C offers ample prospects for the design of industrial de-NO<sub><i>x</i></sub> catalysts in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"23 20","pages":"9367–9374"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41089829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano LettersPub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02550
Chullhee Cho, Zhichao Zhang, Jin Myung Kim, Peiwen J. Ma, Md Farhadul Haque, Peter Snapp and SungWoo Nam*,
{"title":"Spatial Tuning of Light–Matter Interaction via Strain-Gradient-Induced Polarization in Freestanding Wrinkled 2D Materials","authors":"Chullhee Cho, Zhichao Zhang, Jin Myung Kim, Peiwen J. Ma, Md Farhadul Haque, Peter Snapp and SungWoo Nam*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02550","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02550","url":null,"abstract":"<p >To date, controlled deformation of two-dimensional (2D) materials has been extensively demonstrated with substrate-supported structures. However, interfacial effects arising from these supporting materials may suppress or alter the unique behavior of the deformed 2D materials. To address interfacial effects, we report, for the first time, the formation of a micrometer-scale freestanding wrinkled structure of 2D material without any encapsulation layers where we observed the enhanced light–matter interactions with a spatial modulation. Freestanding wrinkled monolayer WSe<sub>2</sub> exhibited about a 330% enhancement relative to supported wrinkled WSe<sub>2</sub> quantified through photoinduced force microscopy. Spatial modulation and enhancement of light interaction in the freestanding wrinkled structures are attributed to the enhanced strain-gradient effect (i.e., out-of-plane polarization) enabled by removing the constraining support and proximate dielectrics. Our findings offer an additional degree of freedom to modulate the out-of-plane polarization and enhance the out-of-plane light–matter interaction in 2D materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"23 20","pages":"9340–9346"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02550","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41089900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano LettersPub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02177
Myeongsoo Kim, Don VanderLaan, Jeungyoon Lee, Ayoung Choe, Kelsey P. Kubelick, Jinhwan Kim* and Stanislav Y. Emelianov*,
{"title":"Hyper-Branched Gold Nanoconstructs for Photoacoustic Imaging in the Near-Infrared Optical Window","authors":"Myeongsoo Kim, Don VanderLaan, Jeungyoon Lee, Ayoung Choe, Kelsey P. Kubelick, Jinhwan Kim* and Stanislav Y. Emelianov*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02177","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02177","url":null,"abstract":"<p >In plasmonic nanoconstructs (NCs), fine-tuning interparticle interactions at the subnanoscale offer enhanced electromagnetic and thermal responses in the near-infrared (NIR) wavelength range. Due to tunable electromagnetic and thermal characteristics, NCs can be excellent photoacoustic (PA) imaging contrast agents. However, engineering plasmonic NCs that maximize light absorption efficiency across multiple polarization directions, i.e., exhibiting blackbody absorption behavior, remains challenging. Herein, we present the synthesis, computational simulation, and characterization of hyper-branched gold nanoconstructs (HBGNCs) as a highly efficient PA contrast agent. HBGNCs exhibit remarkable optical properties, including strong NIR absorption, high absorption efficiency across various polarization angles, and superior photostability compared to conventional standard plasmonic NC-based contrast agents such as gold nanorods and gold nanostars. <i>In vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i> experiments confirm the suitability of HBGNCs for cancer imaging, showcasing their potential as reliable PA contrast agents and addressing the need for enhanced imaging contrast and stability in bioimaging applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"23 20","pages":"9257–9265"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02177","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41090358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Viscoelastic Multiscale Mechanical Indexes for Assessing Liver Fibrosis and Treatment Outcomes","authors":"Zhuo Chang, Liqiang Zhang, Jiu-Tao Hang, Wenjia Liu* and Guang-Kui Xu*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03341","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03341","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Understanding liver tissue mechanics, particularly in the context of liver pathologies like fibrosis, cirrhosis, and carcinoma, holds pivotal significance for assessing disease severity and prognosis. Although the static mechanical properties of livers have been gradually studied, the intricacies of their dynamic mechanics remain enigmatic. Here, we characterize the dynamic creep responses of healthy, fibrotic, and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)-treated fibrotic lives. Strikingly, we unearth a ubiquitous two-stage power-law rheology of livers across different time scales with the exponents and their distribution profiles highly correlated to liver status. Moreover, our self-similar hierarchical theory effectively captures the delicate changes in the dynamical mechanics of livers. Notably, the viscoelastic multiscale mechanical indexes (i.e., power-law exponents and elastic stiffnesses of different hierarchies) and their distribution characteristics prominently vary with liver fibrosis and MSCs therapy. This study unveils the viscoelastic characteristics of livers and underscores the potential of proposed mechanical criteria for assessing disease evolution and prognosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"23 20","pages":"9618–9625"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03341","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41089836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano LettersPub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02534
Junsuke Yamanishi*, Hyo-Yong Ahn and Hiromi Okamoto*,
{"title":"Nanoscopic Observation of Chiro-Optical Force","authors":"Junsuke Yamanishi*, Hyo-Yong Ahn and Hiromi Okamoto*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02534","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02534","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Nanoscopic observation of chiro-optical phenomena is essential in wide scientific areas but has measurement difficulties; hence, its physics is still unknown. To obtain a full understanding of the physics of chiro-optical systems and derive the full potentials, it is essential to perform an in situ observation of the chiro-optical effect from the individual parts because the macroscopic chiro-optical effect cannot be translated directly into microscopic effects. In the present study, we observed the chiro-optical responses at the nanoscale level by detecting the chiro-optical forces, which were generated by illumination of the material–probe system with circularly polarized light. The induced optical force was dependent on the handedness and wavelength of the incident circularly polarized light and was well correlated to the electromagnetically simulated differential intensity of the longitudinal electric field. Our results facilitate the clarification of chiro-optical phenomena at the nanoscale level and could innovate chiro-optical nanotechnologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"23 20","pages":"9347–9352"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02534","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41090120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quartz Nonadherent and Clean Exfoliation of the Heteroatom-Doped Bulk Carbon Nanotubes Array","authors":"Lejian Yu, Yaqi Hou, Yilan Wang, Pei Cao, Chunyi Luo, Yu Liu, Guang Ran, Miao Wang* and Xu Hou*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02702","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02702","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes array offers unique properties for various applications. Detaching them from the growth substrate, while preserving their vertical structure, is essential. Quartz, a cost-effective alternative to silicon wafers and metal-based substrates, can serve as both a reaction chamber and a growth substrate. However, the strong adhesive interaction with the quartz substrate remains an obstacle for further applications. Herein, we presented a simple and well-controlled exfoliation strategy assisted by the introduction of heteroatoms at root ends of a carbon nanotubes array. This strategy forms lower surface polarity of the carbon fragment to significantly reduce adhesion to the quartz substrate, which contributes to the effortless exfoliation. Furthermore, this scalable approach enables potential mass production on recyclable quartz substrates, enhancing the cost-effectiveness and efficiency. This work can establish a solid foundation for cost-competitive carbon nanotube-based technologies, offering a promising avenue for their widespread applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"23 20","pages":"9383–9391"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41090416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano LettersPub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03648
Weixiang Ye*,
{"title":"Correction to “Nonlocal Optical Response of Particle Plasmons in Single Gold Nanorods”","authors":"Weixiang Ye*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03648","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03648","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"23 20","pages":"9672"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41090233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano LettersPub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02137
Yang Li, Rachelle Shao, Claire A. Ostertag-Hill, Matthew Torre, Ran Yan and Daniel S. Kohane*,
{"title":"Methyl-Branched Liposomes as a Depot for Sustained Drug Delivery","authors":"Yang Li, Rachelle Shao, Claire A. Ostertag-Hill, Matthew Torre, Ran Yan and Daniel S. Kohane*, ","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02137","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02137","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Inadequate drug loading and control of payload leakage limit the duration of the effect of liposomal drug carriers and may cause toxicity. Here, we report a liposome system as a depot for sustained drug delivery whose design is inspired by the low permeability of Archaeal membranes to protons and solutes. Incorporating methyl-branched phospholipids into lipid bilayers decreased payload diffusion across liposomal membranes, thereby enhancing the drug load capacity by 10–16% and reducing the release of small molecules in the first 24 h by 40–48%. The in vivo impact of this approach was demonstrated by injection at the sciatic nerve. Methyl-branched liposomes encapsulating the anesthetic tetrodotoxin (TTX) achieved markedly prolonged local anesthesia lasting up to 70 h, in comparison to the 16 h achieved with liposomes containing conventional lipids. The present work demonstrates the usefulness of methyl-branched liposomes to enhance liposomal depot systems for sustained drug delivery.</p>","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"23 20","pages":"9250–9256"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41090097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}