Until now, photovoltaics—the conversion of sunlight to electrical power—has been
dominated by solid-state junction devices, often made of silicon. But this dominance is now …

▪ Abstract Solution phase syntheses and size-selective separation methods to prepare
semiconductor and metal nanocrystals, tunable in size from∼ 1 to 20 nm and monodisperse …

Water is one of the essential enablers of life on earth. Beginning with the origin of the
earliest form of life in seawater, it has been central to the evolution of human civilizations …

A revised view of Brust− Schiffrin metal nanoparticle syntheses is presented here. Precursor
species of these reactions are identified and quantified for Au, Ag, and Cu systems. Contrary …

New insights into the formation chemistry of chalcogenate-protected metal nanoparticles
(NPs) synthesized via the well-known Brust− Schiffrin two-phase method are presented …

Metal nanoclusters (NCs), which consist of several, to about one hundred, metal atoms,
have attracted much attention as functional nanomaterials for use in nanotechnology …

Metal nanoclusters (NCs) have a particle size of about one nanometer, which makes them
the smallest unit that can give a function to a substance. In addition, metal NCs possess …

We describe a direct synthetic method for preparing narrowly dispersed silver nanoparticles
without using size-selection processes by thermal reduction of silver trifluoroacetate in …

In this study, the size-controlled synthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) via chemical
reduction method by NaBH 4 as a reducing agent and poly (vinyl pyrrolidone) or PVP as a …

Ag–Au alloy nanoparticles with tunable size and composition were prepared by a
replacement reaction between Ag nanoparticles and HAuCl 4 at elevated temperatures. The …