Soft Lithography.
- Younan Xia, G. Whitesides
- PhysicsAngewandte Chemie
- 1998
The current state of development in this promising area of research in "soft lithography" is presented here.
Electrospinning and Electrospun Nanofibers: Methods, Materials, and Applications.
- Jiajia Xue, Tong Wu, Yunqian Dai, Younan Xia
- Materials ScienceChemical Reviews
- 27 March 2019
This work aims to provide a comprehensive overview of electrospun nanofibers, including the principle, methods, materials, and applications, and highlights the most relevant and recent advances related to the applications by focusing on the most representative examples.
Shape-controlled synthesis of metal nanocrystals: simple chemistry meets complex physics?
- Younan Xia, Y. Xiong, Byungkwon Lim, S. Skrabalak
- Materials ScienceAngewandte Chemie
- 2009
A comprehensive review of current research activities that center on the shape-controlled synthesis of metal nanocrystals, including a brief introduction to nucleation and growth within the context of metal Nanocrystal synthesis, followed by a discussion of the possible shapes that aMetal nanocrystal might take under different conditions.
Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles
- Yugang Sun, Younan Xia
- Materials ScienceScience
- 13 December 2002
Monodisperse samples of silver nanocubes were synthesized in large quantities by reducing silver nitrate with ethylene glycol in the presence of poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP), characterized by a slightly truncated shape bounded by {100, {110}, and {111} facets.
Electrospinning of polymeric and ceramic nanofibers as uniaxially aligned arrays
- Dan Li, Yuliang Wang, Younan Xia
- Materials Science
- 8 July 2003
Electrospinning has been applied to prepare uniaxially aligned nanofibers made of organic polymers, ceramics, and polymer/ceramic composites. The key to the success of this method was the use of a…
Soft lithography for micro- and nanoscale patterning
- D. Qin, Younan Xia, G. Whitesides
- ChemistryNature Protocols
- 1 March 2010
This protocol provides an introduction to soft lithography—a collection of techniques based on printing, molding and embossing with an elastomeric stamp that has emerged as a technology useful for a number of applications that include cell biology, microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, microelectromechanical systems and flexible electronics/photonics.
Controlling the synthesis and assembly of silver nanostructures for plasmonic applications.
- M. Rycenga, C. Cobley, Younan Xia
- PhysicsChemical Reviews
- 8 June 2011
In plasmonics, the metal nanostructures can serve as antennas to convert light into localized electric fields (E-fields) or as waveguides to route light to desired locations with nanometer precision through a strong interaction between incident light and free electrons in the nanostructure.
Localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy of single silver nanocubes.
- L. J. Sherry, S. Chang, G. Schatz, R. V. Van Duyne, B. Wiley, Younan Xia
- PhysicsNano letters (Print)
- 27 August 2005
In this work, we use dark-field microscopy to observe a new plasmon resonance effect for a single silver nanocube in which the plasmon line shape has two distinct peaks when the particles are located…
Engineered nanoparticles for drug delivery in cancer therapy.
- Tianmeng Sun, Yu Zhang, Bo Pang, D. Hyun, Miaoxin Yang, Younan Xia
- BiologyAngewandte Chemie
- 10 November 2014
It is anticipated that precisely engineered nanoparticles will emerge as the next-generation platform for cancer therapy and many other biomedical applications.
Crystalline Silver Nanowires by Soft Solution Processing
- Yugang Sun, B. Gates, B. Mayers, Younan Xia
- Materials Science
- 3 January 2002
This paper describes a soft, solution-phase approach to the large-scale synthesis of uniform nanowires of bicrystalline silver whose lateral dimensions could be controlled in the range of 30−40 nm,…
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