Recent advances of antioxidant low-dimensional carbon materials for biomedical applications by Nan Tang, Nan Tang, Zhen Ding, Zhen Ding, Jin Zhang, Yanting Cai, Xingfu Bao

“…Recent studies demonstrate that low dimensional carbon antioxidative nanomaterials have received a lot of attention owing to their tiny nanoscales and unique physicochemical property. As a result, a brief overview of recent advancements in antioxidant low-dimensional carbon materials is provided. …”
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Functional Importance of Surface Texture Parameters by Pawel Pawlus, Rafal Reizer, Michal Wieczorowski

“…Surface topography evaluation, considered as 3D dimensional analysis in micro or nanoscales, plays an important role in many fields of science and life. …”
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Position-sensitive spectral splitting with a plasmonic nanowire on silicon chip by Hu, Qing, Xu, Di-Hu, Zhou, Yu, Peng, Ru-Wen, Fan, Ren-Hao, Wang, Qian-Jin, Huang, Xian-Rong, Wang, Mu, Fang, Nicholas Xuanlai

“…We believe that this study provides a new and promising approach for realizing spatiotemporal-sensitive spectral splitting and optical signal processing on nanoscales, and for general integration of nanophotonics with microelectronics.…”
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Fractal Structure in Silica and Composites Aerogels by Thierry Woignier, Juan Primera, Adil Alaoui, Philippe Dieudonne, Laurent Duffours, Isabelle Beurroies, Sylvie Calas-Etienne, Florence Despestis, Annelise Faivre, Pascal Etienne

“…Fractal geometry has been observed and used to describe silica aerogels at nanoscales in certain conditions. In this review paper, we describe the fractal structure of silica aerogels that can develop depending on the synthesis conditions. …”
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Realizing Anapole-FP Cavity Strong Coupling in a Silicon-Based Metasurface Hybrid System by Wei Liu, Yu Tang, Zhengqi Liu, Junjie Li, Yang Cheng, Guiqiang Liu

“…This Si-based metasurface system opens an avenue for designing optoelectronic devices that can manipulate light-matter interactions at nanoscales.…”
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Identification of Nano-Beams Rigidity Coefficient: A Numerical Analysis Using the Landweber Method by Elisa Ferreira Medeiros, Adriano De Cezaro, Fabiana Travessini De Cezaro

“…With the intense technological development in the field of nanotechnology, beams at micro- and nanoscales have become objects of intense study and research interest, see for example [8]. …”
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Path Planning for 3-D In-Hand Manipulation of Micro-Objects Using Rotation Decomposition by Pardeep Kumar, Michaël Gauthier, Redwan Dahmouche

“…In a previous work, we proposed 2-D in-hand robotic dexterous manipulation methods of arbitrary shaped objects that considered adhesion forces that exist at the micro and nanoscales. Direct extension of the proposed method to 3-D would involve an exponential increase in complexity. …”
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Oleogel-Based Systems for the Delivery of Bioactive Compounds in Foods by Tiago C. Pinto, Artur J. Martins, Lorenzo Pastrana, Maria C. Pereira, Miguel A. Cerqueira

“…One of the exciting applications of oleogels is the delivery of functional molecules, where the incorporation of oil-soluble functional compounds can be explored not only at the macroscale but also at micro- and nanoscales, resulting in different release behaviors and also different applications. …”
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Anticancer efficacy and subcellular site of action investigated by real-time monitoring of cellular responses to localized drug delivery in single cells by Zheng, Xin Ting, Chen, Peng, Li, Chang Ming

“…Here the subcellular location-dependent biochemical responses of a potent anticancer drug, β-lapachone (β-lap), is investigated by a reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-functionalized optical nanoprobe, which can deliver and simultaneously monitor the drug effects at nanoscales. For the first time, distinct oxidative responses and calcium alterations in three selected subcellular domains are observed and clearly pinpoint that the perinuclear region is the optimal subcellular site for β-lap to have the best anticancer efficacy. …”
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Comparison of graphene oxide properties synthesized by electrochemical exfoliation and hummers’ method by Siti Nor Amira, Rosli, Wen Liu, Wei, Norhaida, Ab. Razak

“…Graphene oxide (GO) is one of the nanoscales materials that have a unique property thus exhibit great potential applications in various field. …”
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Mechanical Behavior of Al–Al₂Cu–Si and Al–Al₂Cu Eutectic Alloys by Qian Lei, Jian Wang, Amit Misra

“…In this study, laser rapid solidification technique was used to refine the microstructure of ternary Al–Cu–Si and binary Al–Cu eutectic alloys to nanoscales. Micropillar compression testing was performed to measure the stress–strain response of the samples with characteristic microstructure in the melt pool regions. …”
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Gas‐Shearing Fabrication of Multicompartmental Microspheres: A One‐Step and Oil‐Free Approach by Guosheng Tang, Ranhua Xiong, Dan Lv, Ronald X. Xu, Kevin Braeckmans, Chaobo Huang, Stefaan C. De Smedt

“…However, the robust fabrication of monodisperse, highly compartmental MCMs at the micro‐ and nanoscales remains challenging. Here, a simple one‐step and oil‐free process, based on the gas‐flow‐assisted formation of microdroplets (“gas‐shearing”), is established for the scalable production of monodisperse MCMs. …”
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Photonic Crystal Enhanced Fluorescence: A Review on Design Strategies and Applications by Yanyu Xiong, Skye Shepherd, Joseph Tibbs, Amanda Bacon, Weinan Liu, Lucas D. Akin, Takhmina Ayupova, Seemesh Bhaskar, Brian T. Cunningham

“…Nanoscale fluorescence emitters are efficient for measuring biomolecular interactions, but their utility for applications requiring single-unit observations is constrained by the need for large numerical aperture objectives, fluorescence intermittency, and poor photon collection efficiency resulting from omnidirectional emission. …”
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Electromagnetically Induced Grating of Surface Polaritons via Coherent Population Oscillation by Yu Duan, Shengyan Liu, Chaohua Tan

“…The results obtained here have certain theoretical significance for spectral enhancements and precision measurements at the micro–nanoscales.…”
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Nonthermal Plasma Synthesis of Metallic Ti Nanocrystals by Qiaomiao Tu, David L. Poerschke, Uwe R. Kortshagen

“…Nanoscale metallic titanium (Ti) offers unique energetic and biocompatible characteristics for the aerospace and biomedical industries. …”
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Graphene nanoelectrodes for biomolecular sensing by Puczkarski, P, Swett, J, Mol, J

“…Nanoscale biosensor technology has attracted considerable attention with its promise of revolutionizing techniques ranging from biological interfaces to rapid pathogen detection to enabling DNA data storage. …”

Self-assembly of nanoparticles into biomimetic capsid-like nanoshells by Yang, M, Chan, H, Zhao, G, Bahng, J, Zhang, P, Král, P, Kotov, N

“…Nanoscale compartments are one of the foundational elements of living systems. …”

Fabrication of Ultranarrow Nanochannels with Ultrasmall Nanocomponents in Glass Substrates by Hiroki Kamai, Yan Xu

“…Nanofluidics is supposed to take advantage of a variety of new physical phenomena and unusual effects at nanoscales typically below 100 nm. However, the current chip-based nanofluidic applications are mostly based on the use of nanochannels with linewidths above 100 nm, due to the restricted ability of the efficient fabrication of nanochannels with narrow linewidths in glass substrates. …”
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Type-I hyperbolic metasurfaces for highly-squeezed designer polaritons with negative group velocity by Yang, Yihao, Qin, Pengfei, Lin, Xiao, Li, Erping, Wang, Zuojia, Zhang, Baile, Chen, Hongsheng

“…Hyperbolic polaritons in van der Waals materials and metamaterial heterostructures provide unprecedented control over light-matter interaction at extreme nanoscales. Here we propose a concept of type-I hyperbolic metasurface supporting highly-squeezed magnetic designer polaritons, which act as magnetic analogs of hyperbolic polaritons in the hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) in the first Reststrahlen band. …”
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New techniques for the analysis of fine-scaled clustering phenomena within atom probe tomography (APT) data. by Stephenson, LT, Moody, M, Liddicoat, P, Ringer, S

“…Nanoscale atomic clusters in atom probe tomographic data are not universally defined but instead are characterized by the clustering algorithm used and the parameter values controlling the algorithmic process. …”