Colloidal synthesis of metal nanocrystals: from asymmetrical growth to symmetry breaking

QN Nguyen, C Wang, Y Shang, A Janssen… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanocrystals offer a unique platform for tailoring the physicochemical properties of solid
materials to enhance their performances in various applications. While most work on …

Plate-like colloidal metal nanoparticles

L Scarabelli, M Sun, X Zhuo, S Yoo, JE Millstone… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The pseudo-two-dimensional (2D) morphology of plate-like metal nanoparticles makes them
one of the most anisotropic, mechanistically understood, and tunable structures available …

Preparation of Au@Pd Core–Shell Nanorods with fcc-2H-fcc Heterophase for Highly Efficient Electrocatalytic Alcohol Oxidation

X Zhou, Y Ma, Y Ge, S Zhu, Y Cui, B Chen… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Controlled construction of bimetallic nanostructures with a well-defined heterophase is of
great significance for developing highly efficient nanocatalysts and investigating the …

Plasmon-mediated chemical reactions

C Zhan, J Yi, S Hu, XG Zhang, DY Wu… - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2023 - nature.com
Plasmon-mediated chemical reactions (PMCRs) are processes that make use of
nanostructure-based surface plasmons as mediators to redistribute and convert photon …

Multicomponent plasmonic nanoparticles: from heterostructured nanoparticles to colloidal composite nanostructures

M Ha, JH Kim, M You, Q Li, C Fan, JM Nam - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic nanostructures possessing unique and versatile optoelectronic properties have
been vastly investigated over the past decade. However, the full potential of plasmonic …

Plasmonic silver and gold nanoparticles: shape-and structure-modulated plasmonic functionality for point-of-caring sensing, bio-imaging and medical therapy

Y Hang, A Wang, N Wu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Silver and gold nanoparticles have found extensive biomedical applications due to their
strong localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) and intriguing plasmonic properties …

Bimetallic nanocrystals: syntheses, properties, and applications

KD Gilroy, A Ruditskiy, HC Peng, D Qin, Y Xia - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Achieving mastery over the synthesis of metal nanocrystals has emerged as one of the
foremost scientific endeavors in recent years. This intense interest stems from the fact that …

Seed‐mediated growth of colloidal metal nanocrystals

Y Xia, KD Gilroy, HC Peng, X Xia - … Chemie International Edition, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Seed‐mediated growth is a powerful and versatile approach for the synthesis of colloidal
metal nanocrystals. The vast allure of this approach mainly stems from the staggering …

Nanointerface chemistry: lattice-mismatch-directed synthesis and application of hybrid nanocrystals

J Liu, J Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
In the past decades, great strides have been made in the synthesis of hybrid nanocrystals
(HNCs) consisting of two or more disparate subunits (such as metals and/or …

Epitaxial growth of hybrid nanostructures

C Tan, J Chen, XJ Wu, H Zhang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Hybrid nanostructures are a class of materials that are typically composed of two or more
different components, in which each component has at least one dimension on the …