Nanocatalysis: size-and shape-dependent chemisorption and catalytic reactivity

BR Cuenya, F Behafarid - Surface Science Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
In recent years, the field of catalysis has experienced an astonishing transformation, driven
in part by more demanding environmental standards and critical societal and industrial …

Copper nanoparticles as inexpensive and efficient catalyst: A valuable contribution in organic synthesis

NK Ojha, GV Zyryanov, A Majee, VN Charushin… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Copper nanoparticles have been explored as a new class of heterogeneous catalyst in
various chemical transformations. This review surveys the most useful organic …

Surface plasmons on metal nanoparticles: the influence of shape and physical environment

C Noguez - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2007 - ACS Publications
The surface plasmon response of metal nanoparticles is studied for different shapes and
physical environments. For polyhedral nanoparticles, the surface plasmon resonances are …

Naturally occurring iron oxide nanoparticles: morphology, surface chemistry and environmental stability

H Guo, AS Barnard - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The widespread nanostructures of iron oxides and oxyhydroxides are important reagents in
many biogeochemical processes in many parts of our planet and ecosystem. Their functions …

Aromatic thiolate-protected series of gold nanomolecules and a contrary structural trend in size evolution

NA Sakthivel, A Dass - Accounts of chemical research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Thiolate-protected gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are a special class of
nanomaterials that form atomically precise NPs with distinct numbers of Au atoms (n) and …

Mesophase behaviour of polyhedral particles

U Agarwal, FA Escobedo - Nature materials, 2011 - nature.com
Translational and orientational excluded-volume fields encoded in particles with anisotropic
shapes can lead to purely entropy-driven assembly of morphologies with specific order and …

Structural evolution of nanoporous gold during thermal coarsening

YK Chen-Wiegart, S Wang, YS Chu, W Liu, I McNulty… - Acta Materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
The three-dimensional evolution of nanoligaments of nanoporous gold created by Ag–Au
dealloying was studied during isothermal coarsening by X-ray nanotomography and …

Nanogold: a quantitative phase map

AS Barnard, NP Young, AI Kirkland, MA Van Huis… - ACS …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The development of the next generation of nanotechnologies requires precise control of the
size, shape, and structure of individual components in a variety of chemical and engineering …

Modelling of nanoparticles: approaches to morphology and evolution

AS Barnard - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
As we learn more about the physics, chemistry and engineering of materials at the
nanoscale, we find that the development of a complete understanding is not (in general) …

Beneficial Effects of Microwave-Assisted Heating versus Conventional Heating in Noble Metal Nanoparticle Synthesis

N Dahal, S García, J Zhou, SM Humphrey - ACS nano, 2012 - ACS Publications
An extensive comparative study of the effects of microwave versus conventional heating on
the nucleation and growth of near-monodisperse Rh, Pd, and Pt nanoparticles has revealed …