Phase has emerged as an important structural parameter—in addition to composition,
morphology, architecture, facet, size and dimensionality—that determines the properties and …

This review captures the synthesis, assembly, properties, and applications of copper
chalcogenide NCs, which have achieved significant research interest in the last decade due …

Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs, ie, crystalline nanoparticles) have become an important class
of materials with great potential for applications ranging from medicine to electronic and …

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has emerged as a uniquely powerful
tool for structural and functional imaging of materials on the atomic level. Driven by …

As a key structural parameter, phase depicts the arrangement of atoms in materials.
Normally, a nanomaterial exists in its thermodynamically stable crystal phase. With the …

Nucleation in atomic crystallization remains poorly understood, despite advances in
classical nucleation theory. The nucleation process has been described to involve a …

The growth of colloidal nanocrystal architectures by nanoparticle attachment is frequently
reported as an alternative to the conventional growth by monomer attachment. However, the …

Degenerately doped semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) are of recent interest to the NC
community due to their tunable localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) in the near …

Harnessing big data, deep data, and smart data from state-of-the-art imaging might
accelerate the design and realization of advanced functional materials. Here we discuss …

Cation exchange is an age-old technique for the chemical conversion of liquids or extended
solids by place-exchanging the cations in an ionic material with a different set of cations. The …