Formation of the protein corona: the interface between nanoparticles and the immune system

F Barbero, L Russo, M Vitali, J Piella, I Salvo… - Seminars in …, 2017 - Elsevier
The interaction of inorganic nanoparticles and many biological fluids often withstands the
formation of a Protein Corona enveloping the nanoparticle. This Protein Corona provides the …

Hollow metal nanostructures for enhanced plasmonics: synthesis, local plasmonic properties and applications

A Genç, J Patarroyo, J Sancho-Parramon… - …, 2017 - degruyter.com
Metallic nanostructures have received great attention due to their ability to generate surface
plasmon resonances, which are collective oscillations of conduction electrons of a material …

Inflating hollow nanocrystals through a repeated Kirkendall cavitation process

H Tianou, W Wang, X Yang, Z Cao, Q Kuang… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The Kirkendall effect has been recently used to produce hollow nanostructures by taking
advantage of the different diffusion rates of species involved in the chemical transformations …

One-pot fabrication of hollow and porous Pd–Cu alloy nanospheres and their remarkably improved catalytic performance for hexavalent chromium reduction

SH Han, J Bai, HM Liu, JH Zeng, JX Jiang… - … applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Noble metal nanostructures (NMNSs) play a crucial role in many heterogeneous catalytic
reactions. Hollow and porous NMNSs possess generally prominent advantages over their …

Probing the surface reactivity of nanocrystals by the catalytic degradation of organic dyes: the effect of size, surface chemistry and composition

J Piella, F Merkoçi, A Genç, J Arbiol… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We herein present a comprehensive study on how the catalytic performance and reusability
of Au nanocrystals (NCs) are affected by systematic variations of crystal size, surface coating …

Peroxidase-mimicking nanozyme with surface-dispersed Pt atoms for the colorimetric lateral flow immunoassay of C-reactive protein

VG Panferov, NA Byzova, AV Zherdev, BB Dzantiev - Microchimica Acta, 2021 - Springer
Platinum-containing nanozymes with peroxidase-mimicking activity (PMA) have found a
broad application in bioanalytical methods and are potentially able to compete with …

Platinum-silver alloy nanoballoon nanoassemblies with super catalytic activity for the formate electrooxidation

SH Han, HM Liu, J Bai, XL Tian, BY Xia… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Alkaline direct formate fuel cells (ADFFC) are emerging as a propitious candidate for green
energy conversion devices. However, the poor electrocatalytic activity and stability of anodic …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding galvanic replacement reactions: the case of Pt and Ag

F Merkoçi, J Patarroyo, L Russo, J Piella, A Genç… - Materials Today …, 2020 - Elsevier
Synthesis of nanocrystals (NCs), where material science elements are addressed with
organic chemistry precision techniques, is especially challenging and difficult to control. This …

From low to high-index facets of noble metal nanocrystals: a way forward to enhance the performance of electrochemical CO 2 reduction

AR Woldu - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
To date, noble metal nanoparticles, mainly the gold (Au) and silver (Ag) nanoparticles, are
the most active and selective heterogeneous catalysts that have revealed a tendency to form …

Thinking outside the shell: novel sensors designed from plasmon-enhanced fluorescent concentric nanoparticles

N Fontaine, A Picard-Lafond, J Asselin, D Boudreau - Analyst, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The alteration of photophysical properties of fluorophores in the vicinity of a metallic
nanostructure, a phenomenon termed plasmon-or metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF), has …