Nanocrystals offer a unique platform for tailoring the physicochemical properties of solid
materials to enhance their performances in various applications. While most work on …

Nanochemistry provides powerful synthetic tools allowing one to combine different materials
on a single nanostructure, thus unfolding numerous possibilities to tailor their properties …

Electrocatalytic water splitting (2H2O→ 2H2+ O2) is a very promising avenue to effectively
and environmentally friendly produce highly pure hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) at a large …

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 …

Bimetallic Janus nanocrystals have received considerable interest in recent years owing to
their unique properties and niche applications. The side‐by‐side distribution of two distinct …

Pd-catalyzed bioorthogonal bond cleavage reactions are widely used and frequently
reported. It is circumscribed by low reaction efficiency, which may encumber the therapeutic …

Janus nanocages with distinctive platinum‐group metals on the outer and inner surfaces
can naturally catalyze at least two different reactions. Here we report a general method …

Symmetry breaking is a ubiquitous phenomenon that occurs spontaneously when a system
is subjected to changes in size and/or variations in terms of thermodynamic parameters. As …

Heterodimers of metal nanoparticles are widely sought for applications in photonics,
sensing, and catalysis. In this work, we demonstrate a general approach to the fabrication of …

Hybrid nanostructures, composed of multi-component crystals of various shapes, sizes and
compositions are much sought-after functional materials. Pairing the ability to tune each …