Sub-1 nm Materials Chemistry: Challenges and Prospects

Q Liu, X Wang, X Wang - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Subnanometer materials (SNMs) refer to nanomaterials with a feature size close to 1 nm,
similar to the diameter of a single polymer, DNA strand, and a single cluster/unit cell. The …

Demystifying the chemical ordering of multimetallic nanoparticles

DJ Loevlie, B Ferreira… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Multimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) have highly tunable properties due to the
synergy between the different metals and the wide variety of NP structural parameters such …

Complete miscibility of immiscible elements at the nanometre scale

PC Chen, M Gao, CA McCandler, C Song, J Jin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the mixing behaviour of elements in a multielement material is important to
control its structure and property. When the size of a multielement material is decreased to …

Core–shell vs. multi-shell formation in nanoalloy evolution from disordered configurations

D Nelli, R Ferrando - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The evolution towards equilibrium of AuCo, AgNi and AgCu nanoparticles is studied by
molecular dynamics simulations. Nanoparticle sizes of about 2.5 nm are considered, in the …

Density functional theory based computational investigations on the stability of highly active trimetallic PtPdCu nanoalloys for electrochemical oxygen reduction

L Wang, RM Ore, PK Jayamaha, ZP Wu… - Faraday …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Activity, cost, and durability are the trinity of catalysis research for the electrochemical
oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). While studies towards increasing activity and reducing …

Finely dispersed AgPd bimetallic nanoparticles on a polydopamine modified metal organic framework for diverse catalytic applications

B Mishra, D Ghosh, BP Tripathi - Journal of Catalysis, 2022 - Elsevier
An efficiently supported noble metal-based heterogeneous catalyst with ultrafine dispersion
and small size for multifunctional catalysis and pollutant degradation is highly desirable. In …

Chemical ordering in Pt–Au, Pt–Ag and Pt–Cu nanoparticles from density functional calculations using a topological approach

L Vega, HA Aleksandrov, R Farris, A Bruix, F Viñes… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Bimetallic alloys are actively investigated as promising new materials for catalytic and other
energy-related applications. However, the stable arrangements of the two metals in …

Variable temperature in situ TEM mapping of the thermodynamically stable element distribution in bimetallic Pt–Rh nanoparticles

M Jensen, W Kierulf-Vieira, PJ Kooyman… - Nanoscale …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We report here the first variable temperature in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
study on smaller Pt–Rh nanoparticles (≤ 24 nm) under vacuum conditions. Well-defined 50 …

Effects of the core location on the structural stability of Ni–Au core–shell nanoparticles

M Schnedlitz, R Fernandez-Perea, D Knez… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Structural changes of Ni–Au core–shell nanoparticles with increasing temperature are
studied at atomic resolution. The bimetallic clusters, synthesized in superfluid helium …

Probing and Leveraging the Structural Heterogeneity of Nanomaterials for Enhanced Catalysis

R Yang, Z Bao, Y Sun - ACS Nanoscience Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
The marriage between nanoscience and heterogeneous catalysis has introduced
transformative opportunities for accessing better nanocatalysts. However, the structural …