Group IV nanoparticles: synthesis, properties, and biological applications

J Fan, PK Chu - Small, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, the emerging roles of group IV nanoparticles including silicon, diamond,
silicon carbide, and germanium are summarized and discussed from the perspective of …

Silicon carbide: a versatile material for biosensor applications

A Oliveros, A Guiseppi-Elie, SE Saddow - Biomedical microdevices, 2013 - Springer
Silicon carbide (SiC) has been around for more than 100 years as an industrial material and
has found wide and varied applications because of its unique electrical and thermal …

[PDF][PDF] 3C-SiC nanocrystals as fluorescent biological labels

J Fan, H Li, J Jiang, LKY So, YW Lam, PK Chu - Small, 2008 - cityu.edu.hk
Quantum dots are superior to dye molecules in many aspects from size-tunable
ffuorescence and resistance to photobleaching and they have thus been widely used in …

Highly Selective Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CH4 by Ball-Milled Cubic Silicon Carbide Nanoparticles under Visible-Light Irradiation

H Li, J Sun - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021 - ACS Publications
The ultimate goal of photocatalytic CO2 reduction is to achieve high selectivity for a single
product with high efficiency. One of the most significant challenges is that expensive …

Surface charges and optical characteristic of colloidal cubic SiC nanocrystals

Y Li, C Chen, JT Li, Y Yang, ZM Lin - Nanoscale research letters, 2011 - Springer
Colloidal cubic silicon carbide (SiC) nanocrystals with an average diameter of 4.4 nm have
been fabricated by anisotropic wet chemical etching of microsized cubic SiC powder. Fourier …

[PDF][PDF] Synthesis, structure and properties of nanosized silicon carbide

RA Andrievski - Rev. Adv. Mater. Sci, 2009 - ipme.ru
Features of synthesis of particles, wires, tubes, films and bulk materials based on silicon
carbide in nanocrystalline/amorphous condition are considered. The main attention is taken …

Fabrication and photoluminescence of SiC quantum dots stemming from 3C, 6H, and 4H polytypes of bulk SiC

J Fan, H Li, J Wang, M Xiao - Applied Physics Letters, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We report the fabrication and photoluminescence properties of the colloidal SiC quantum
dots (QDs) stemming, respectively, from diminishing different polytypes (3C, 6H, and 4H) of …

Temperature-dependent photoluminescence properties of porous fluorescent SiC

W Lu, AT Tarekegne, Y Ou, S Kamiyama, H Ou - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
A comprehensive study of surface passivation effect on porous fluorescent silicon carbide
(SiC) was carried out to elucidate the luminescence properties by temperature dependent …

SiC nanostructures toward biomedical applications and its future challenges

JS Ponraj, SC Dhanabalan, G Attolini… - Critical Reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The present work reviews current research activities for possible applications of silicon
carbide (SiC) nanostructures. The main attention is devoted to emerging biomedical …

Diamond–water coupling effects in Raman and photoluminescence spectra of nanodiamond colloidal suspensions

TA Dolenko, SA Burikov, JM Rosenholm… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The interaction of nanodiamond (ND) particles produced by detonation synthesis with water
molecules in ND water suspensions was studied using Raman and photoluminescence …