Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Targeted Gold Nanoparticles for Theranostics of Prostate Cancer

10.1021/acsnano.8b00940

2018-04-16

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers and among the leading causes of cancer deaths in the United States. Men diagnosed with the disease typically undergo radical prostatectomy, which often results in incontinence and impotence. Recurrence of the ...

Formation of Lead Halide Perovskite Based Plasmonic Nanolasers and Nanolaser Arrays by Tailoring the Substrate

10.1021/acsnano.8b01206

2018-04-16

Hybrid plasmonic nanolasers are intensively studied due to their nanoscale mode confinement and potentials in highly integrated photonic and quantum devices. Until now, the characteristics of plasmonic nanolasers are mostly determined by the crystal facets of...

Reducing Coercive-Field Scaling in Ferroelectric Thin Films via Orientation Control

10.1021/acsnano.8b01399

2018-04-16

The desire for low-power/voltage operation of devices is driving renewed interest in understanding scaling effects in ferroelectric thin films. As the dimensions of ferroelectrics are reduced, the properties can vary dramatically, including the robust scaling...

Doping Polymer Semiconductors by Organic Salts: Toward High-Performance Solution-Processed Organic Field-Effect Transistors

10.1021/acsnano.8b01460

2018-04-16

Solution-processed organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) were fabricated with the addition of an organic salt, trityl tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate (TrTPFB), into thin films of donor–acceptor copolymer semiconductors. The performance of OFETs is signif...

Encapsulating Silica/Antimony into Porous Electrospun Carbon Nanofibers with Robust Structure Stability for High-Efficiency Lithium Storage

10.1021/acsnano.7b09092

2018-04-13

To address the volume-change-induced pulverization problems of electrode materials, we propose a “silica reinforcement” concept, following which silica-reinforced carbon nanofibers with encapsulated Sb nanoparticles (denoted as SiO2/Sb@CNFs) are fabricated vi...

Nanoscale Electronic Conditioning for Improvement of Nanowire Light-Emitting-Diode Efficiency

10.1021/acsnano.8b00538

2018-04-13

Commercial III-Nitride LEDs and lasers spanning visible and ultraviolet wavelengths are based on epitaxial films. Alternatively, nanowire-based III-Nitride optoelectronics offer the advantage of strain compliance and high crystalline quality growth on a varie...

Size-Modulable Nanoprobe for High-Performance Ultrasound Imaging and Drug Delivery against Cancer

10.1021/acsnano.8b00076

2018-04-13

Among medical imaging modalities available in the clinic, ultrasonography is the most convenient, inexpensive, ionizing-radiation-free, and most common. Micrometer-size perfluorocarbon bubbles have been used as efficient contrast for intravascular ultrasonogr...

Multishelled Si@Cu Microparticles Supported on 3D Cu Current Collectors for Stable and Binder-free Anodes of Lithium-Ion Batteries

10.1021/acsnano.8b00703

2018-04-13

Silicon has proved to be a promising anode material of high-specific capacity for the next-generation lithium ion batteries (LIBs). However, during repeated discharge/charge cycles, Si-based electrodes, especially those in microscale size, pulverize and lose ...

Polarization Rotation in Ultrathin Ferroelectrics Tailored by Interfacial Oxygen Octahedral Coupling

10.1021/acsnano.8b00862

2018-04-13

Multiple polar states and giant piezoelectric responses could be driven by polarization rotation in ferroelectric films, which have potential functionalities in modern material applications. Although theoretical calculations have predicted polarization rotati...

Self-Assembled Nanocrystals of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Show Photostable Single-Photon Emission

10.1021/acsnano.7b08810

2018-04-12

Quantum technologies could largely benefit from the control of quantum emitters in sub-micrometric size crystals. These are naturally prone to integration in hybrid devices, including heterostructures and complex photonic devices. Currently available quantum ...