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Four-dimensional (4D) printing is an advanced manufacturing technology that has rapidly emerged as a transformative tool with the capacity to reshape various research domains and industries. Distinguished by its integration of time as a dimension, 4D printing allows objects to dynamically respond to external stimuli, setting it apart from conventio...
Building 3D electrospun macrostructures and monitoring the biological activities inside them are challenging. In this study, 3D fibrous polycaprolactone (PCL) macrostructures were successfully fabricated using in-house 3D electrospinning. The main factors supporting the 3D self-assembled nanofiber fabrication are the H3PO4 additives, flow rate, and...
Vat photopolymerization 3D printing, including LCD 3D printing, is a versatile method for the fabrication of complex structures with numerous applications. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential of graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) as an additive for improving the mechanical properties of carbon-filled composite resin for LCD 3D printing...
Photocatalysis has emerged as a promising method for wastewater treatment, organic removal, and hydrogen gas production. Titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ) is a popular photocatalyst due to its ability to absorb ultraviolet light, its electronic structure, and its optical and chemical stability. The photocatalytic capacity of TiO 2 is influenced by its crys...
Four-dimensional (4D) printing has received growing interests in healthcare with advancements in individualized dynamic constructs, including controllable shape transformation or triggerable function upon exposure to stimuli. It is emerging as a technology that can play a critical role in aiding cancer treatments, with potential abilities of shape,...
We report the development and characterization of a detection technique for scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) that enables near-field amplitude and phase imaging at two or more wavelengths simultaneously. To this end, we introduce multispectral pseudoheterodyne (PSH) interferometry, where infrared lasers are combined t...
Cancer is a critical cause of global human death. Not only are complex approaches to cancer prognosis, accurate diagnosis, and efficient therapeutics concerned, but post-treatments like postsurgical or chemotherapeutical effects are also followed up. The four-dimensional (4D) printing technique has gained attention for its potential applications in...
In this study, we explored the technical feasibility to fabricate bi-material structures having electrically conductive properties at the surface using a conventional digital light processing (DLP) by printing conductive resin containing multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) on the non-conductive one. It was found that the DLP-printed bi-material str...
A high piezoelectric coefficient polymer and biomaterial for bone tissue engineering— poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP)—has been successfully fabricated into 3D scaffolds using the wet electrospinning method. Three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds have significant advantages for tissue engineering applications. Electrospinning i...
The small diameter artificial blood vessel is synthesized with a diameter less than or equal to 6 millimetres. This technique has been used in coronary artery bypass grafting to treat coronary artery disease. Currently, the problem of coronary artery disease is still common, in addition to aortic aneurysm caused by the incompatibility of mechanical...
Fabrication of macroscopic three-dimensional (3D) structures made of nanofibers of widely used polymers is reported. 3D structures have several benefits over conventional flat two-dimensional (2D) structures by the added dimension. The structures have been fabricated by the 3D electrospinning technology that can build 3D structures rapidly due to c...
Constructing nanotubular morphologies and heterojunctions are two effective strategies to enhance the charge separation and transport of α-Fe 2 O 3 for improved photocatalytic performance, while the fabrication of porous α-Fe 2 O 3 nanotubes with precisely tailored wall thickness, pore structure, crystallinity, and junctions still remains a big cha...
The combination of electrospinning with extrusion based 3D printing technology opens new pathways for micro- and nanofabrication, which can be applied in a wide range of applications. This simple and inexpensive method has been proven to fabricate 3D fibrous polystyrene structures with controlled morphology and micro- to nano-scale fibers diameter....
The combination of electrospinning with 3D printing technology opens new pathways for nano- and microfabrication, which can be applied in a wide range of application. This simple and inexpensive method was proven to fabricate 3D fibrous polystyrene structures with controlled morphology and micro to nano-fibre diameter. The controllable movement of...
Infrared nanospectroscopy enables novel possibilities for chemical and structural analysis of nanocomposites, biomaterials or optoelectronic devices. Here we introduce hyperspectral infrared nanoimaging based on Fourier transform infrared nanospectroscopy with a tunable bandwidth-limited laser continuum. We describe the technical implementations an...
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We present a simple synthesis of iron oxide nanotubes, grown under very mild conditions from a solution containing Fe(II) and Fe(III), on rod-shaped tobacco mosaic virus templates. Their well-defined shape and surface chemistry suggest these robust bionanoparticles as a versatile platform for synthesis of small, thin mineral tubes, which was achiev...
Electrospinning is known mainly for polymers. We show that this simple technique allows to shape molecules that are useful for organic photovoltaic cells into wires, a morphology that is otherwise not generally obtained. A special advantage of our method is the simple mixing approach that allows to test blends of promising compounds, without the ne...
Mid-infrared spectroscopy offers important chemical and structural information about biological samples but diffraction prevents nanoscale studies. Amenabar et al. demonstrate Fourier transform infrared nanospectroscopy for analysing the secondary structure of protein complexes with 30 nm spatial resolution.
Mid-infrared spectroscopy is a widely used tool for material identification and secondary structure analysis in chemistry, biology and biochemistry. However, the diffraction limit prevents nanoscale protein studies. Here we introduce mapping of protein structure with 30 nm lateral resolution and sensitivity to individual protein complexes by Fourie...
For the example of peptides and proteins, we contrast "natural" self-assembly, i.e. aggregation in solutions, with "forced" assembly by electrospinning, i.e. by application of strong electrical fields to concentrated solutions. We were able to spin fibres that contain short stretches of diameters down to 5 nm; the ultimate aim is a fibre of the siz...
Peptides can assemble to supramolecular structures, of which fibers are of special biochemical and medical relevance. We employed Raman and infrared spectroscopy to elucidate the chemical integrity of fibers built from peptides and peptide derivates that contain the aromatic side groups fluorenyl and phenyl. Because the observed spectra compare ver...
Peptides can assemble to supramolecular structures, of which fibers are of special biochemical and medical relevance. We employed Raman and infrared spectroscopy to elucidate the chemical integrity of fibers built from peptides and peptide derivates that contain the aromatic side groups fluorenyl and phenyl. Because the observed spectra compare ver...
We demonstrate Fourier transform infrared nanospectroscopy (nano-FTIR) based on a scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscope (s-SNOM) equipped with a coherent-continuum infrared light source. We show that the method can straightforwardly determine the infrared absorption spectrum of organic samples with a spatial resolution of 20 nm, co...
This paper reports on the fabrication of nanofibres of ceramic compounds using electrospinning technique. In a typical process, ceramic nanofibres are fabricated by electrospinning a precursor mixture of appropriated metal sources, polymer and solvent, followed by calcination treatment of the electrospun composite nanofibres. In this work, the elec...
For the first time, sodium cobalt oxide (NaCo2O4) nanofibers with diameter of ∼20–200nm were prepared by electrospinning a precursor mixture of sodium acetate/cobalt acetate/PAN, followed by calcination treatment of the electrospun composite nanofibers. The sodium cobalt oxide nanofibers were characterized by TG–DTA, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman...
This paper reports on structural characterization and morphology of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanofibers prepared by electrospinning using a solution that contained poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) and titanium(diisoproproxide) bis(2,4-pentanedionate) 75 wt.% in 2-propanol. TiO2 nanofibers with diameters of 80–100 nm were successfully obtained from calc...
This paper describes the fabrication of barium strontium titanate (Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 or BST) nanofibers by electrospinning method using a solution that contained poly(vinylpyrrolidone) and a sol-gel solution of BST. The as-spun and calcined BST/PVP composite nanofibers were characterized by TG-DTA, X-ray diffraction, FT-IR, SEM and TEM, respectively....