Surface and interface control in nanoparticle catalysis

C Xie, Z Niu, D Kim, M Li, P Yang - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The surface and interfaces of heterogeneous catalysts are essential to their performance as
they are often considered to be active sites for catalytic reactions. With the development of …

Rich landscape of colloidal semiconductor–metal hybrid nanostructures: synthesis, synergetic characteristics, and emerging applications

Y Ben-Shahar, D Stone, U Banin - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nanochemistry provides powerful synthetic tools allowing one to combine different materials
on a single nanostructure, thus unfolding numerous possibilities to tailor their properties …

One-dimensional titanium dioxide nanomaterials: nanowires, nanorods, and nanobelts

X Wang, Z Li, J Shi, Y Yu - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Titanium dioxide (TiO 2) is a widely used multifunctional ceramic material due to its excellent
stability and physical-chemical properties as well as its great accessibility and moderate …

Synthesis and properties of colloidal heteronanocrystals

C de Mello Donegá - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal heteronanocrystals (HNCs) can be regarded as solution-grown inorganic–organic
hybrid nanomaterials, since they consist of inorganic nanoparticles that are coated with a …

Colloidal hybrid nanostructures: a new type of functional materials

R Costi, AE Saunders, U Banin - … Chemie International Edition, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
One key goal of nanocrystal research is the development of experimental methods to
selectively control the composition and shape of nanocrystals over a wide range of material …

Colloidal heterostructured nanocrystals: Synthesis and growth mechanisms

L Carbone, PD Cozzoli - Nano Today, 2010 - Elsevier
One frontier approach of colloidal chemistry to nanoscale entities capable to exhibit
enhanced or even unconventional physical–chemical properties as well as diversified …

Shaping binary metal nanocrystals through epitaxial seeded growth

SE Habas, H Lee, V Radmilovic, GA Somorjai… - Nature materials, 2007 - nature.com
Morphological control of nanocrystals has become increasingly important, as many of their
physical and chemical properties are highly shape dependent. Nanocrystal shape control for …

Enhanced photocatalytic performance of TiO2-ZnO hybrid nanostructures

C Cheng, A Amini, C Zhu, Z Xu, H Song, N Wang - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
We studied the photocatalytic properties of rational designed TiO2-ZnO hybrid
nanostructures, which were fabricated by the site-specific deposition of amorphous TiO2 on …

Epitaxial Growth of Branched α‐Fe2O3/SnO2 Nano‐Heterostructures with Improved Lithium‐Ion Battery Performance

W Zhou, C Cheng, J Liu, YY Tay, J Jiang… - Advanced Functional …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We report the synthesis of a novel branched nano‐heterostructure composed of SnO2
nanowire stem and α‐Fe2O3 nanorod branches by combining a vapour transport deposition …

Engineering nanointerfaces for nanocatalysis

Z Zhang, B Xu, X Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The interface, referred to as the boundary between two phases, has been demonstrated to
play a critical role in catalysis. Fundamental understanding of interfacial phenomena …