Understanding the Mechanism of SiC Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) and Developing Routes toward SiC Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) with Density Functional Theory

10.1021/acsami.8b00794

2018-04-17

Understanding the mechanism of SiC chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is an important step in investigating the routes toward future atomic layer deposition (ALD) of SiC. The energetics of various silicon and carbon precursors reacting with bare and H-terminated...

Stable Dispersions of Covalently Tethered Polymer Improved Graphene Oxide Nanoconjugates as an Effective Vector for siRNA Delivery

10.1021/acsami.8b03477

2018-04-17

Conjugates of poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) with modified graphene oxide (GO) are attractive nonviral vectors for gene-based cancer therapeutics. GO protects siRNA from enzymatic cleavage and showed reasonable transfection efficiency along with simultaneous benefi...

Ceria Nanoparticles-Decorated Microcapsules as a Smart Drug Delivery/Protective System: Protection of Encapsulated P. pyralis Luciferase

10.1021/acsami.7b19658

2018-04-17

The design of novel, effective drug delivery systems is one of the most promising ways to improve the treatment of socially important diseases. This article reports on an innovative approach to the production of composite microcontainers (microcapsules) beari...

TiO2 Nanolayer-Enhanced Fluorescence for Simultaneous Multiplex Mycotoxin Detection by Aptamer Microarrays on a Porous Silicon Surface

10.1021/acsami.8b01431

2018-04-17

A new aptamer microarray method on the TiO2–porous silicon (PSi) surface was developed to simultaneously screen multiplex mycotoxins. The TiO2 nanolayer on the surface of PSi can enhance the fluorescence intensity 14 times than that of the thermally oxidized ...

High-Crystallinity Urchin-like VS4 Anode for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Storage

10.1021/acsami.8b01876

2018-04-17

VS4 anode materials with controllable morphologies from hierarchical microflower, octopus-like structure, seagrass-like structure to urchin-like structure have been successfully synthesized by a facile solvothermal synthesis approach using different alcohols ...

Improvement of Corrosion and Tribocorrosion Behavior of Pure Titanium by Subzero Anodic Spark Oxidation

10.1021/acsami.8b02331

2018-04-17

The present investigation reports corrosion and tribocorrosion behavior of anodic spark oxidation (ASO) coatings formed at 20 and −10 °C. Despite the numerous open pores on the layers formed at 20 °C , the plasma discharged channels were blocked on the surfac...

On Grounds of the Memory Effect in Amorphous and Crystalline Apatite: Kinetics of Crystallization and Biological Response

10.1021/acsami.8b02520

2018-04-17

Memory effects, despite being intrinsic to biological systems, are rarely potentiated in biomaterials. By exploring the transition between amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) and hydroxyapatite (HAp) from different empirical angles, here, we attempt to set the ...

Electrospun Polyhydroxybutyrate/Poly(ε-caprolactone)/Sol–Gel-Derived Silica Hybrid Scaffolds with Drug Releasing Function for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications

10.1021/acsami.8b02656

2018-04-17

Electrospun hybrid scaffolds are an effective platform to deliver drugs site specifically for the prevention and treatment of diseases in addition to promote tissue regeneration because of the flexibility to load drugs therein. In the present study, electrosp...

Decomposition of the Thermal Boundary Resistance across Carbon Nanotube–Graphene Junctions to Different Mechanisms

10.1021/acsami.8b00826

2018-04-17

Three different mechanisms are identified to contribute to thermal resistances across a carbon nanotube–graphene junction: material mismatch, nonplanar junction, and defects. To isolate the contributions of each mechanism, we have designed five types of junct...

Fluorescence Modulation of Graphene Quantum Dots Near Structured Silver Nanofilms

10.1021/acsami.7b19524

2018-04-16

Here, we study the plasmonic metal-enhanced fluorescence properties of blue-emitting graphene quantum dots (GQDs) and green-emitting graphene oxide quantum dots (GOQDs) using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy. Reactive ion sputtered silver (Ag) on zinc...