Roughness effects on the surface charge properties of silica nanoparticles

BO Alan, M Barisik, HG Ozcelik - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The surface charge property of silica nanoparticles plays a key role in their function.
Previous studies assumed surface charge as a homogeneously distributed constant material …

Electrostatic Surface Charging by Water Dewetting

N Knorr, S Rosselli, G Nelles - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Water dewetting generates static electricity. We reviewed historical experiments of this
phenomenon, and we studied the charging of polymer slides and metal electrode supported …

Quantifying nanoscale charge density features of contact-charged surfaces with an FEM/KPFM-hybrid approach

F Pertl, JC Sobarzo, L Shafeek, T Cramer… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) is a powerful tool for studying contact electrification
(CE) at the nanoscale, but converting KPFM voltage maps to charge density maps is …

Coulomb force directed single and binary assembly of nanoparticles from aqueous dispersions by AFM nanoxerography

E Palleau, NM Sangeetha, G Viau, JD Marty… - Acs Nano, 2011 - ACS Publications
We present a simple protocol to obtain versatile assemblies of nanoparticles from aqueous
dispersions onto charge patterns written by atomic force microscopy, on a 100 nm thin film of …

Dielectric charging by AFM in tip-to-sample space mode: overview and challenges in revealing the appropriate mechanisms

K Makasheva, C Villeneuve-Faure, C Laurent… - …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The study of charge distribution on the surface and in the bulk of dielectrics is of great
scientific interest because of the information gained on the storage and transport properties …

Electric charge of nanopatterned silica surfaces

HG Ozcelik, M Barisik - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The most recent technologies employ nanoscale surface patterning or roughening in order
to engineer desired properties on a surface. Electrokinetic properties at the interface of such …

Versatile, rapid and robust nano-positioning of single-photon emitters by AFM-nanoxerography

M Humbert, Y Hallez, V Larrey, F Fournel… - …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) nanoxerography was successfully used to direct the
assembly of colloidal nanodiamonds (NDs) containing nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres on …

Measuring the lifetime of silicon nanocrystal solar cell photo-carriers by using Kelvin probe force microscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

H Lepage, N Chevalier, D Mariolle, O Renault - Nanotechnology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the first measurements of photo-carrier lifetimes in silicon nanocrystal-based third
generation solar cells by Kelvin force microscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy …

Toward quantitative Kelvin probe force microscopy of nanoscale potential distributions

R Baier, C Leendertz, MC Lux-Steiner… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
Kelvin probe force spectroscopy (KPFS) and finite-element method (FEM) simulations were
employed to investigate the averaging effect of the work function signals of nanoscale …

Modelling-assisted geometrical optimization of colloidal quantum color convertor based pixels fabricated by dielectrophoretic directed assembly

P Tyagi, E Palleau, L Ressier, M d'Amico, YP Lin… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Hypothesis: Building competitive color conversion pixels for microdisplays made of
semiconductor nanocrystals requires reaching a deposition thickness high enough to …