Recent developments in plasmonic alloy nanoparticles: synthesis, modelling, properties and applications

V Coviello, D Forrer, V Amendola - ChemPhysChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the traditional plasmonic materials are counted on one hand, there are a lot of
possible combinations leading to alloys with other elements of the periodic table, in …

Design and perspective of amorphous metal nanoparticles from laser synthesis and processing

SX Liang, LC Zhang, S Reichenberger… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Amorphous metal nanoparticles (A-NPs) have aroused great interest in their structural
disordering nature and combined downsizing strategies (eg nanoscaling), both of which are …

Breaking the vitrification limitation of monatomic metals

X Tong, YE Zhang, BS Shang, HP Zhang, Z Li… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The question of whether all materials can solidify into the glassy form proposed by Turnbull
half a century ago remains unsolved. Some of the simplest systems of monatomic metals …

Laser-generated high entropy metallic glass nanoparticles as bifunctional electrocatalysts

J Johny, Y Li, M Kamp, O Prymak, SX Liang, T Krekeler… - Nano research, 2022 - Springer
High entropy metallic glass nanoparticles (HEMG NPs) are very promising materials for
energy conversion due to the wide tuning possibilities of electrochemical potentials offered …

Generation of nanomaterials by reactive laser-synthesis in liquid

LM Frias Batista, A Nag, VK Meader… - Science China Physics …, 2022 - Springer
Nanomaterials with tailored structures and surface chemistry are in high demand, as these
materials play increasingly important roles in biology, catalysis, energy storage, and …

A laser-based synthesis route for magnetic metallic glass nanoparticles

SX Liang, S Salamon, S Zerebecki, LC Zhang, Z Jia… - Scripta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Phase control, especially for amorphous phase, is challenging with pulsed laser ablation in
liquid (LAL), where ablated materials experience crystallization even at extreme cooling rate …

Formation of Co–Au Core–shell nanoparticles with thin gold shells and soft magnetic ε-cobalt cores ruled by thermodynamics and kinetics

J Johny, M Kamp, O Prymak, A Tymoczko… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bimetallic core–shell nanoparticles (CSNPs), where a ferromagnetic core (eg, Co) is
surrounded by a noble-metal thin plasmonic shell (eg, Au), are highly interesting for …

Physical Regimes and Mechanisms of Picosecond Laser Fragmentation of Gold Nanoparticles in Water from X-ray Probing and Atomistic Simulations

A Plech, M Tack, H Huang, M Arefev, AR Ziefuss… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Laser fragmentation in liquids has emerged as a promising green chemistry technique for
changing the size, shape, structure, and phase composition of colloidal nanoparticles, thus …

Enhancement of proton therapy efficiency by noble metal nanoparticles is driven by the number and chemical activity of surface atoms

S Zwiehoff, J Johny, C Behrends, A Landmann… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Proton‐based radiotherapy is a modern technique for the treatment of solid tumors with
significantly reduced side effects to adjacent tissues. Biocompatible nanoparticles (NPs) with …

Atomistic modeling of pulsed laser ablation in liquid: spatially and time-resolved maps of transient nonequilibrium states and channels of nanoparticle formation

C Chen, LV Zhigilei - Applied Physics A, 2023 - Springer
The mechanisms of picosecond pulse laser ablation in liquid are investigated in a series of
large-scale atomistic simulations performed for FeNi targets irradiated in a liquid …