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Bottom-up engineering of InAs at the nanoscale: From V-shaped nanomembranes to nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Eleonora Russo, Sonia Conesa Boj, Anna Dalmau Mallorquí, Ignasi Canales Mundet

The ability to rationally tune the morphology of nanostructures is a fundamental milestone in nanoscale engineering. In particular, the possibility to switch between different shapes within the same material system represents a further step in the developm ...

Elsevier2015

Highly Sensitive Electrodic Materials Based on Pt Nanoflowers Grown on Pt Nanospheres for Biosensor Development

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino

In this work we describe the realization of monometallic nanostructures by two simple electrodeposition steps. The surface of the modified electrode was characterized by scanning electron microscopy that confirms a homogeneous deposition of Pt nanospheres ...

2015

Comparison of In Situ Micromechanical Strain-Rate Sensitivity Measurement Techniques

Stefano Mischler, Johann Michler, Xavier Maeder

Strain-rate sensitivity (SRS) measurements using transient small-scale techniques are becoming increasingly popular for investigating nanostructured films and microcomponents since they can provide fundamental insights into the plastic deformation mechanis ...

Springer Verlag2015

Innovative optical lactate biosensing through the design of nanostructured materials

Oswaldo Javier Pérez Anguiano

The scope of this thesis is the synthesis of nanostructured materials, their functionalization and use for optical lactate biosensing applications. Rapid detection of L-lactate is important in many applications in the clinical sector, in the food industry, ...

EPFL2015

Resistless nanofabrication by stencil lithography: A review

Jürgen Brugger, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Oscar Vazquez Mena

We present a review on stencil lithography and focus on the particular interest and challenges when applying it to the scalable fabrication of nm-size devices. We first describe the basic technique with its main advantages and challenges. Then we review th ...

Elsevier2015

Modulation of Fluorescence Signals from Biomolecules along Nanowires Due to Interaction of Light with Oriented Nanostructures

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Esther Alarcon Llado

High aspect ratio nanostructures have gained increasing interest as highly sensitive platforms for biosensing. Here, well-defined biofunctionalized vertical indium arsenide nanowires are used to map the interaction of light with nanowires depending on thei ...

American Chemical Society2015

Local electronic properties and adsorption conformations of molecular nanostructures at surfaces

Ivan Pentegov

Nanoscale science is an emerging field of our time and opens a broad horizon for applications in almost every area of human activity, from medicine to energy storage. As usual, there are numerous challenges in the way of progress, which slow down the devel ...

EPFL2015

Polarization response of nanowires a la carte

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Esther Alarcon Llado, Alberto Casadei, Martin Heiss, Eleonora Russo, Francesca Amaduzzi

Thanks to their special interaction with light, semiconductor nanowires have opened new avenues in photonics, quantum optics and solar energy harvesting. One of the major challenges for their full technological deployment has been their strong polarization ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

New Insights Into Amyloid Formation and Structure by Innovative Atomic Force Microscopy Methods

Francesco Simone Ruggeri

Today, more than 40 million people worldwide are affected by neurodegenerative disorders. Onset of these diseases is associated with insoluble fibrillar protein aggregates, termed amyloids. The molecular origin and the link between amyloid formation and di ...

EPFL2015

CNT and PDCs: A fruitful association? Study of a polycarbosilane–MWCNT composite

Jürgen Brugger, Rosario Maurizio Gullo, Jonas Grossenbacher

The effect of MWCNT introduction in a polycarbosilane based ceramic on its electrical properties is presented. The electrical conductivity of two MWCNT powders was measured under dynamic compaction up to 20 MPa when it reached 3–5 S/cm. The compaction beha ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2015

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