Meng Zhang

TL;DR: In this paper, Nanocalorimetry was used to investigate the melting of Bi nanoparticles and small particles were found to exhibit size-dependent melting temperatures less than the bulk melting temperature (e.g., ΔT=67K for a 3-nm radius particle).

TL;DR: In this paper, a scanning calorimeter was introduced for use with a single solid or liquid sample with a volume down to a few nanoliters, which was demonstrated with the melting of 52 nL of indium, using heating rates from 100 to 1000 K/s.

TL;DR: This paper will review several recent advances in photonic crystal biosensor detection instrumentation and device structures that are being applied toward direct detection of small molecules in the context of high-throughput drug screening,Photonic crystal fluorescence enhancement as utilized for high sensitivity multiplexed cancer biomarker detection, and label-free high-resolution imaging of cells and individual nanoparticles as a new tool for life science research and single-molecule diagnostics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the scanning nanocalorimetry technique to characterize thin-film growth in real-time and generated three-dimensional heat capacity data as a function of temperature and thickness that show the continuous change of indium film during deposition.

TL;DR: The melting characteristics of hexadecanethiol two-dimensional self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) grown on polycrystalline Au surfaces are obtained via heat capacity measurements using nanocalorimetry at scanning rates of ∼30 000°C∕s.