Two-Dimensional Metal Oxide Nanoflower-Like Architectures: A General Growth Method and Their Applications in Energy Storage and as Model Materials for Nanofabrication.

Nanoflower-like architectures represent a unique type of nanomaterials in which thin 2D nanosheets are self-organised into interconnected structures. Lack of restacking between nanosheets and significant internal porosity are the particular advantages of such nanoscale architectures. A general method for the preparation of nanoflowers of a range of oxides (e.

The influence of nanoscopically thin silver films on bacterial viability and attachment.

The physicochemical and bactericidal properties of thin silver films have been analysed. Silver films of 3 and 150 nm thicknesses were fabricated using a magnetron sputtering thin-film deposition system. X-ray photoelectron and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy analyses confirmed that the resulting surfaces were homogeneous, and that silver was the most abundant element present on both surfaces, being 45 and 53 at.