Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Organic ligands are essential in the growth of monodisperse colloidal inorganic
nanocrystals and can be leveraged to create a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Inorganic …

Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

Self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) into superstructures offers a flexible and
promising pathway to manipulate the nanometer-sized particles and thus make full use of …

The ab initio computational treatment of electrochemical systems requires an appropriate
treatment of the solid/liquid interfaces. A fully quantum mechanical treatment of the interface …

We demonstrate that nanoparticle self-assembly can reach the same level of hierarchy,
complexity, and accuracy as biomolecules. The precise assembly structures of gold …

Solid-liquid interfaces are at the heart of many modern-day technologies and provide a
challenge to many materials simulation methods. A realistic first-principles computational …

The electronic properties of colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are critically dependent on both
QD size and surface chemistry. Modification of quantum confinement provides control of the …

Despite their technological importance, lead sulfide (PbS) nanocrystals have lagged behind
nanocrystals of cadmium selenide (CdSe) and lead selenide (PbSe) in terms of size and …

On solvent evaporation, non-interacting monodisperse colloidal particles self-assemble into
a close-packed superlattice. Although the initial and final states can be readily …