Surfactants and polymers on nanoscale surfaces: the interface landscape of plasmonic nanostars

D Ferrari, C Deriu, L Fabris - Frontiers in Nanotechnology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Surfactants and polymers are widely used as shape-directing agents in the synthesis of
colloidal plasmonic nanostars, consequently acting as non-negligible players in all those …

Near-isotropic sub-Ångstrom 3D resolution phase contrast imaging achieved by end-to-end ptychographic electron tomography

S You, A Romanov, PM Pelz - Physica Scripta, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Three-dimensional atomic resolution imaging using transmission electron microscopes is a
unique capability that requires challenging experiments. Linear electron tomography …

Photomanipulatable colloidal clusters from the aggregation of azo molecular glass spheres

B Tang, L Wang, X Ai, C Liao, Z **ong, Y He, X Wang - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal clusters with well-controlled shapes have attracted extensive interest in the fields
of materials, chemistry, physics, and biology. This communication reports the controllable …

Chiral Bimetallic Pt@ Au Octapods with Spiral Four‐petal flower‐like Symmetric Configuration as Sensitive SERS Probes

H Kuang, D Li, G Wang, M Sunx, A Qu, C Xu… - Angewandte … - Wiley Online Library
Here, using L/D‐cysteine–threonine (CT) dipeptide as chiral ligands, we synthesized chiral
bimetallic Pt@ Au octapods with ag‐factor of 0.026 at 724 nm. These had a distinct spiral …

High resolution imaging of non-equilibrium colloidal self-assembly enabled by photopolymerization

J Satpathy, JK Chen, G Wen, H Masuhara, S Seth… - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
The self-organization of colloidal nanoparticles into complex structures, both in equilibrium
and out-of-equilibrium, is a critical area in colloidal science with potential applications in …