Using small-angle scattering to guide functional magnetic nanoparticle design

D Honecker, M Bersweiler, S Erokhin, D Berkov… - Nanoscale …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Magnetic nanoparticles offer unique potential for various technological, biomedical, or
environmental applications thanks to the size-, shape-and material-dependent tunability of …

[HTML][HTML] Illuminating the nanostructure of diffuse interfaces: Recent advances and future directions in reflectometry techniques

H Robertson, IJ Gresham, ARJ Nelson… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Diffuse soft matter interfaces take many forms, from end-tethered polymer brushes or
adsorbed surfactants to self-assembled layers of lipids. These interfaces play crucial roles …

Boosting membrane interactions and antimicrobial effects of photocatalytic titanium dioxide nanoparticles by peptide coating

L Caselli, E Parra‐Ortiz, S Micciulla, MWA Skoda… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Photocatalytic nanoparticles offer antimicrobial effects under illumination due to the
formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), capable of degrading bacterial membranes …

[PDF][PDF] Spatz: the time-of-flight neutron reflectometer with vertical sample geometry at the OPAL research reactor

AP Le Brun, TY Huang, S Pullen… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - journals.iucr.org
The Spatz neutron beam instrument is the second time-of-flight neutron reflectometer to be
installed at the OPAL research reactor. The instrument was formerly the V18 BioRef …

Composition and structure of mixed phospholipid supported bilayers formed by POPC and DPPC

A Åkesson, T Lind, N Ehrlich, D Stamou, H Wacklin… - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper we present a systematic study of the morphology and composition of supported
lipid bilayers (SLBs) formed by vesicle fusion using a wide variety of surface sensitive …

Antimicrobial Peptide Coating of TiO2 Nanoparticles for Boosted Antimicrobial Effects

L Caselli, T Traini, S Micciulla… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study explores the coating of photocatalytic nanoparticles with antimicrobial peptides
(AMPs) for boosted antimicrobial effects, and how such effects depend on AMP properties …

Interaction of surface-modified alumina nanoparticles and surfactants at an oil/water interface: a neutron reflectometry, scattering, and enhanced oil recovery study

W Al-Shatty, M Campana, S Alexander… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The evaluation of the mechanism of nanoparticle (NP)/surfactant complex adsorption at the
critical oil/water interface was studied. A sophisticated technique (neutron reflectometry) was …

Photocatalytic Degradation of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides by Peptide-Coated TiO2 Nanoparticles

L Caselli, G Du, S Micciulla, T Traini… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this study, we report the degradation of smooth and rough lipopolysaccharides (LPS) from
Gram-negative bacteria and of lipoteichoic acid (LTA) from Gram-positive bacteria by …

An octameric PqiC toroid stabilises the outer-membrane interaction of the PqiABC transport system

BF Cooper, G Ratkevičiūtė, LA Clifton, H Johnston… - EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Abstract The E. coli Paraquat Inducible (Pqi) Pathway is a putative Gram-negative
phospholipid transport system. The pathway comprises three components: an integral inner …

Unexpected structural and magnetic depth dependence of YIG thin films

JFK Cooper, CJ Kinane, S Langridge, M Ali, BJ Hickey… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We report measurements on yttrium iron garnet (YIG) thin films grown on both gadolinium
gallium garnet (GGG) and yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) substrates, with and without thin Pt …