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    Formation of intermittent covalent bonds at high contact pressure limits superlow friction on epitaxial graphene
    (College Park, MD : APS, 2023) Szczefanowicz, Bartosz; Kuwahara, Takuya; Filleter, Tobin; Klemenz, Andreas; Mayrhofer, Leonhard; Bennewitz, Roland; Moseler, Michael
    Epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001) exhibits superlow friction due to its weak out-of-plane interactions. Friction-force microscopy with silicon tips shows an abrupt increase of friction by one order of magnitude above a threshold normal force. Density-functional tight-binding simulations suggest that this wearless high-friction regime involves an intermittent sp3 rehybridization of graphene at contact pressure exceeding 10 GPa. The simultaneous formation of covalent bonds with the tip's silica surface and the underlying SiC interface layer establishes a third mechanism limiting the superlow friction on epitaxial graphene, in addition to dissipation in elastic instabilities and in wear processes.
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    Carboxylic acids and esters as scaffold for cavities in porous single layer anti-reflective coatings of silica-titania with excellent optical and mechanical properties
    (Wuhan : Scientific Research Publishing, 2014) Menezes, E.; König, Peter; Jilavi, Mohammad H.; Oliveira de, Peter W.; Alves Junior, S.
    Anti-reflective (AR) single layer of silica-titania (SiO2-TiO2) coatings were obtained from sols containing pyromellitic dianhydride (PMDA) derivatives and Ti and Si precursors on glass substrate by dip-coating method. The coatings showed very high optical quality and the transmission was improved to up to 98.5%. Furthermore, the coatings also presented good mechanical stability.
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    Kinetic and spectroscopic responses of pH-sensitive nanoparticles: Influence of the silica matrix
    (London : Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019) Clasen, A.; Wenderoth, S.; Tavernaro, I.; Fleddermann, J.; Kraegeloh, A.; Jung, G.
    Intracellular pH sensing with fluorescent nanoparticles is an emerging topic as pH plays several roles in physiology and pathologic processes. Here, nanoparticle-sized pH sensors (diameter far below 50 nm) for fluorescence imaging have been described. Consequently, a fluorescent derivative of pH-sensitive hydroxypyrene with pKa = 6.1 was synthesized and subsequently embedded in core and core-shell silica nanoparticles via a modified Stöber process. The detailed fluorescence spectroscopic characterization of the produced nanoparticles was carried out for retrieving information about the environment within the nanoparticle core. Several steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopic methods hint to the screening of the probe molecule from the solvent, but it sustained interactions with hydrogen bonds similar to that of water. The incorporation of the indicator dye in the water-rich silica matrix neither changes the acidity constant nor dramatically slows down the protonation kinetics. However, cladding by another SiO2 shell leads to the partial substitution of water and decelerating the response of the probe molecule toward pH. The sensor is capable of monitoring pH changes in a physiological range by using ratiometric fluorescence excitation with λex = 405 nm and λex = 488 nm, as confirmed by the confocal fluorescence imaging of intracellular nanoparticle uptake.