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Celik E, Ma Y, Brezesinski T, Elm MT. Ordered mesoporous metal oxides for electrochemical applications: correlation between structure, electrical properties and device performance. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:10706-10735. [PMID: 33978649 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp00834j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Ordered mesoporous metal oxides with a high specific surface area, tailored porosity and engineered interfaces are promising materials for electrochemical applications. In particular, the method of evaporation-induced self-assembly allows the formation of nanocrystalline films of controlled thickness on polar substrates. In general, mesoporous materials have the advantage of benefiting from a unique combination of structural, chemical and physical properties. This Perspective article addresses the structural characteristics and the electrical (charge-transport) properties of mesoporous metal oxides and how these affect their application in energy storage, catalysis and gas sensing.
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- Erdogan Celik
- Center for Materials Research, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany.
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- Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.
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- Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.
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- Center for Materials Research, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany. and Institute of Experimental Physics I, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany and Institute of Physical Chemistry, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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Li X, Liu X, Liu X. Self-assembly of colloidal inorganic nanocrystals: nanoscale forces, emergent properties and applications. Chem Soc Rev 2021; 50:2074-2101. [PMID: 33325927 DOI: 10.1039/d0cs00436g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles has made it possible to bridge the nanoscopic and macroscopic worlds and to make complex nanostructures. The nanoparticle-mediated assembly enables many potential applications, from biodetection and nanomedicine to optoelectronic devices. Properties of assembled materials are determined not only by the nature of nanoparticle building blocks, but also by spatial positions of nanoparticles within the assemblies. A deep understanding of nanoscale interactions between nanoparticles is a prerequisite to controlling nanoparticle arrangement during assembly. In this review, we present an overview of interparticle interactions governing their assembly in a liquid phase. Considerable attention is devoted to examples that illustrate nanoparticle assembly into ordered superstructures using different types of building blocks, including plasmonic nanoparticles, magnetic nanoparticles, lanthanide-doped nanophosphors, and quantum dots. We also cover the physicochemical properties of nanoparticle ensembles, especially those arising from particle coupling effects. We further discuss future research directions and challenges in controlling self-assembly at a level of precision that is most crucial to technology development.
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- Xiyan Li
- Institute of Photoelectronic Thin Film Devices and Technology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China.
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- Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics (FSCFE), MIIT Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLoFE), Shaanxi Institute of Flexible Electronics (SIFE), 8. Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE), Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an 710072, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, 117543, Singapore. and Joint School of National University of Singapore and Tianjin University International Campus of Tianjin University, Fuzhou 350207, China and The N.1 Institute for Health, National University of Singapore, 117456, Singapore
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Reversible visible/near-infrared light responsive thin films based on indium tin oxide nanocrystals and polymer. Sci Rep 2020; 10:12808. [PMID: 32733018 PMCID: PMC7393154 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-69110-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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In this study, we design a novel thermo- and photo-responsive nanocomposite film prepared by depositing indium tin oxide nanocrystals via the coating of amphiphilic copolymer on polycaprolactone substrates (INCP). The INCP film shows reversible surface morphology change properties by changing temperature as well as turning ON/OFF NIR laser. Especially, as the temperature changes from 25 to 75 °C, the film could regulate light transmittance from 75 to 90% across the visible and near-infrared region (500–1,750 nm). In addition, the film also exhibits excellent recycle and thermal stability at different temperature. Our results reveal that reversible surface morphology change properties are caused by curvature adjustment of film, which is owing to the coupling effect between copolymer and PCL with different thermal expansion strains. Our results suggest a possible strategy for the preparation of smart responsive materials in the future, which provides a reference for the development of new energy-saving materials.
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Deng K, Luo Z, Tan L, Quan Z. Self-assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles into functional superstructures. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:6002-6038. [PMID: 32692337 DOI: 10.1039/d0cs00541j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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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 their unique properties. This bottom-up strategy builds a bridge between the NP regime and a new class of transformative materials across multiple length scales for technological applications. In this field, anisotropic NPs with size- and shape-dependent physical properties as self-assembly building blocks have long fascinated scientists. Self-assembly of anisotropic NPs not only opens up exciting opportunities to engineer a variety of intriguing and complex superlattice architectures, but also provides access to discover emergent collective properties that stem from their ordered arrangement. Thus, this has stimulated enormous research interests in both fundamental science and technological applications. This present review comprehensively summarizes the latest advances in this area, and highlights their rich packing behaviors from the viewpoint of NP shape. We provide the basics of the experimental techniques to produce NP superstructures and structural characterization tools, and detail the delicate assembled structures. Then the current understanding of the assembly dynamics is discussed with the assistance of in situ studies, followed by emergent collective properties from these NP assemblies. Finally, we end this article with the remaining challenges and outlook, hoping to encourage further research in this field.
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- Kerong Deng
- Department of Chemistry, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies, Ministry of Education, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies, Ministry of Education, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies, Ministry of Education, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies, Ministry of Education, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China.
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Zou Y, Zhou X, Ma J, Yang X, Deng Y. Recent advances in amphiphilic block copolymer templated mesoporous metal-based materials: assembly engineering and applications. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:1173-1208. [PMID: 31967137 DOI: 10.1039/c9cs00334g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Mesoporous metal-based materials (MMBMs) have received unprecedented attention in catalysis, sensing, and energy storage and conversion owing to their unique electronic structures, uniform mesopore size and high specific surface area. In the last decade, great progress has been made in the design and application of MMBMs; in particular, many novel assembly engineering methods and strategies based on amphiphilic block copolymers as structure-directing agents have also been developed for the "bottom-up" construction of a variety of MMBMs. Development of MMBMs is therefore of significant importance from both academic and practical points of view. In this review, we provide a systematic elaboration of the molecular assembly methods and strategies for MMBMs, such as tuning the driving force between amphiphilic block copolymers and various precursors (i.e., metal salts, nanoparticles/clusters and polyoxometalates) for pore characteristics and physicochemical properties. The structure-performance relationship of MMBMs (e.g., pore size, surface area, crystallinity and crystal structure) based on various spectroscopy analysis techniques and density functional theory (DFT) calculation is discussed and the influence of the surface/interfacial properties of MMBMs (e.g., active surfaces, heterojunctions, binding sites and acid-base properties) in various applications is also included. The prospect of accurately designing functional mesoporous materials and future research directions in the field of MMBMs is pointed out in this review, and it will open a new avenue for the inorganic-organic assembly in various fields.
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- Yidong Zou
- Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, iChEM, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, iChEM, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, iChEM, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, iChEM, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, iChEM, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China. and State Key Lab of Transducer Technology, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
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Lehmkühler F, Schroer MA, Markmann V, Frenzel L, Möller J, Lange H, Grübel G, Schulz F. Kinetics of pressure-induced nanocrystal superlattice formation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:21349-21354. [PMID: 31531471 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp04658e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Colloidal nanocrystals (NC) are known to self-organize into superlattices that promise many applications ranging from medicine to optoelectronics. Recently, the formation of high-quality PEGylated gold NC was reported at high hydrostatic pressure and high salt concentrations. Here, we study the formation kinetics of these superlattices after pressure jumps beyond their crystallisation pressure by means of small-angle X-ray scattering with few ms experimental resolution. The timescale of NC formation was found to be reduced the larger the width of the pressure jump. This is connected to an increase of crystal quality, i.e., the faster the NC superlattice forms, the better the crystal quality. In contrast to the formation kinetics, the melting of the NC superlattice is approximately one order of magnitude slower and shows linear kinetics.
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- Felix Lehmkühler
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany. and The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany. and The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany and Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Grindelallee 117, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany. and The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany and Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Grindelallee 117, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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Space- and time-resolved small angle X-ray scattering to probe assembly of silver nanocrystal superlattices. Nat Commun 2018; 9:4211. [PMID: 30310061 PMCID: PMC6181943 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06734-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The structure of nanocrystal superlattices has been extensively studied and well documented, however, their assembly process is poorly understood. In this work, we demonstrate an in situ space- and time-resolved small angle X-ray scattering measurement that we use to probe the assembly of silver nanocrystal superlattices driven by electric fields. The electric field creates a nanocrystal flux to the surface, providing a systematic means to vary the nanocrystal concentration near the electrode and thereby to initiate nucleation and growth of superlattices in several minutes. Using this approach, we measure the space- and time-resolved concentration and polydispersity gradients during deposition and show how they affect the superlattice constant and degree of order. We find that the field induces a size-selection effect that can reduce the polydispersity near the substrate by 21% leading to better quality crystals and resulting in field strength-dependent superlattice lattice constants.
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Zhang Z, Jiang Y, Huang C, Chai Y, Goldfine E, Liu F, Feng W, Forth J, Williams TE, Ashby PD, Russell TP, Helms BA. Guiding kinetic trajectories between jammed and unjammed states in 2D colloidal nanocrystal-polymer assemblies with zwitterionic ligands. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2018; 4:eaap8045. [PMID: 30083598 PMCID: PMC6070361 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aap8045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Mesostructured matter composed of colloidal nanocrystals in solidified architectures abounds with broadly tunable catalytic, magnetic, optoelectronic, and energy storing properties. Less common are liquid-like assemblies of colloidal nanocrystals in a condensed phase, which may have different energy transduction behaviors owing to their dynamic character. Limiting investigations into dynamic colloidal nanocrystal architectures is the lack of schemes to control or redirect the tendency of the system to solidify. We show how to solidify and subsequently reconfigure colloidal nanocrystal assemblies dimensionally confined to a liquid-liquid interface. Our success in this regard hinged on the development of competitive chemistries anchoring or releasing the nanocrystals to or from the interface. With these chemistries, it was possible to control the kinetic trajectory between quasi-two-dimensional jammed (solid-like) and unjammed (liquid-like) states. In future schemes, it may be possible to leverage this control to direct the formation or destruction of explicit physical pathways for energy carriers to migrate in the system in response to an external field.
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- Ziyi Zhang
- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Hearst Mining Building, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Hearst Mining Building, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, 120 Governors Drive, Conte Center for Polymer Research, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
- World Premier International Research Center Initiative–Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
- Corresponding author. (T.P.R.); (B.A.H.)
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- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Corresponding author. (T.P.R.); (B.A.H.)
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Li T, Xue B, Wang B, Guo G, Han D, Yan Y, Dong A. Tubular Monolayer Superlattices of Hollow Mn3O4 Nanocrystals and Their Oxygen Reduction Activity. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:12133-12136. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b06587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Tongtao Li
- Collaborative Innovation
Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory
of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, and Department of
Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Collaborative Innovation
Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory
of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, and Department of
Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Collaborative Innovation
Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory
of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, and Department of
Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Collaborative Innovation
Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory
of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, and Department of
Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Collaborative Innovation
Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory
of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, and Department of
Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Collaborative Innovation
Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory
of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, and Department of
Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Collaborative Innovation
Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory
of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, and Department of
Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Yu Y, Yu D, Orme CA. Reversible, Tunable, Electric-Field Driven Assembly of Silver Nanocrystal Superlattices. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:3862-3869. [PMID: 28511013 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Nanocrystal superlattices are typically fabricated by either solvent evaporation or destabilization methods that require long time periods to generate highly ordered structures. In this paper, we report for the first time the use of electric fields to reversibly drive nanocrystal assembly into superlattices without changing solvent volume or composition, and show that this method only takes 20 min to produce polyhedral colloidal crystals, which would otherwise need days or weeks. This method offers a way to control the lattice constants and degree of preferential orientation for superlattices and can suppress the uniaxial superlattice contraction associated with solvent evaporation. In situ small-angle X-ray scattering experiments indicated that nanocrystal superlattices were formed while solvated, not during drying.
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- Yixuan Yu
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- University of California Los Angeles , Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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Williams TE, Ushizima D, Zhu C, Anders A, Milliron DJ, Helms BA. Nearest-neighbour nanocrystal bonding dictates framework stability or collapse in colloidal nanocrystal frameworks. Chem Commun (Camb) 2017; 53:4853-4856. [PMID: 28421213 DOI: 10.1039/c6cc10183f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Block copolymers serve as architecture-directing agents for the assembly of colloidal nanocrystals into a variety of mesoporous solids. Here we report the fundamental order-disorder transition in such assemblies, which yield, on one hand, ordered colloidal nanocrystals frameworks or, alternatively, disordered mesoporous nanocrystal films. Our determination of the order-disorder transition is based on extensive image analysis of films after thermal processing. The number of nearest-nanocrystal neighbours emerges as a critical parameter dictating assembly outcomes, which is in turn determined by the nanocrystal volume fraction (fNC). We also identify the minimum fNC needed to support the structure against collapse.
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- Teresa E Williams
- Graduate Group in Applied Science and Technology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Skliri E, Papadogiorgakis S, Lykakis IN, Armatas GS. Mesoporous Assembled Mn3O4Nanoparticle Networks as Efficient Catalysts for Selective Oxidation of Alkenes and Aryl Alkanes. Chempluschem 2016; 82:136-143. [DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201600460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Euaggelia Skliri
- Department of Materials Science and Technology; University of Crete; Heraklion 71003 Greece
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- Department of Chemistry; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Thessaloniki 54124 Greece
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- Department of Materials Science and Technology; University of Crete; Heraklion 71003 Greece
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De Roo J, Coucke S, Rijckaert H, De Keukeleere K, Sinnaeve D, Hens Z, Martins JC, Van Driessche I. Amino Acid-Based Stabilization of Oxide Nanocrystals in Polar Media: From Insight in Ligand Exchange to Solution ¹H NMR Probing of Short-Chained Adsorbates. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:1962-70. [PMID: 26854070 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b04611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Ligand exchange is a crucial step between nanocrystal synthesis and nanocrystal application. Although colloidal stability and ligand exchange in nonpolar media are readily established, the exchange of native, hydrophobic ligands with polar ligands is less systematic. In this paper, we present a versatile ligand exchange strategy for the phase transfer of carboxylic acid capped HfO2 and ZrO2 nanocrystals to various polar solvents, based on small amino acids as the incoming ligand. To gain insight in the fundamental mechanism of the exchange, we study this system with a combination of FTIR, zeta potential measurements, and solution (1)H NMR techniques. The detection of surface-associated, small ligands with solution NMR proves challenging in this respect. Tightly bound amino acids are undetectable, but their existence can be proven through displacement with other ligands in titration experiments. Alternatively, we find that methyl moieties belonging to bound species can circumvent these limitations because of their more favorable relaxation properties as a result of internal mobility. As such, our results are not limited to amino acids but to any short-chained ligand and will therefore facilitate the rigorous investigation and understanding of various ligand exchange processes.
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- Jonathan De Roo
- Sol-Gel Center for Research on Inorganic Powders and Thin films Synthesis (SCRiPTS), ‡Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures group (PCN), §NMR and Structure Analysis Unit (NMRSTR), ∥Center for Nano and Biophotonics, Ghent University , 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Sol-Gel Center for Research on Inorganic Powders and Thin films Synthesis (SCRiPTS), ‡Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures group (PCN), §NMR and Structure Analysis Unit (NMRSTR), ∥Center for Nano and Biophotonics, Ghent University , 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Sol-Gel Center for Research on Inorganic Powders and Thin films Synthesis (SCRiPTS), ‡Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures group (PCN), §NMR and Structure Analysis Unit (NMRSTR), ∥Center for Nano and Biophotonics, Ghent University , 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Sol-Gel Center for Research on Inorganic Powders and Thin films Synthesis (SCRiPTS), ‡Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures group (PCN), §NMR and Structure Analysis Unit (NMRSTR), ∥Center for Nano and Biophotonics, Ghent University , 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Sol-Gel Center for Research on Inorganic Powders and Thin films Synthesis (SCRiPTS), ‡Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures group (PCN), §NMR and Structure Analysis Unit (NMRSTR), ∥Center for Nano and Biophotonics, Ghent University , 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Sol-Gel Center for Research on Inorganic Powders and Thin films Synthesis (SCRiPTS), ‡Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures group (PCN), §NMR and Structure Analysis Unit (NMRSTR), ∥Center for Nano and Biophotonics, Ghent University , 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Sol-Gel Center for Research on Inorganic Powders and Thin films Synthesis (SCRiPTS), ‡Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures group (PCN), §NMR and Structure Analysis Unit (NMRSTR), ∥Center for Nano and Biophotonics, Ghent University , 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Sol-Gel Center for Research on Inorganic Powders and Thin films Synthesis (SCRiPTS), ‡Physics and Chemistry of Nanostructures group (PCN), §NMR and Structure Analysis Unit (NMRSTR), ∥Center for Nano and Biophotonics, Ghent University , 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Ong GK, Williams TE, Singh A, Schaible E, Helms BA, Milliron DJ. Ordering in Polymer Micelle-Directed Assemblies of Colloidal Nanocrystals. NANO LETTERS 2015; 15:8240-4. [PMID: 26579565 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Assembly of presynthesized nanocrystals by block copolymer micelles can be rationalized by the incorporation of nanocrystals into micellar coronas of constant width. As determined by quantitative analysis using small-angle X-ray scattering, high loading of small nanocrystals yields composites exhibiting order on two length scales, whereas intermediate loading of nanocrystals larger than the coronal width produces single nanocrystal networks. The resulting structures obey expectations of thermodynamically driven assembly on the nanocrystal length scale, whereas kinetically frozen packing principles dictate order on the polymer micelle length scale.
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- Gary K Ong
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California-Berkeley , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Graduate Group in Applied Science & Technology, University of California-Berkeley , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- The Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Luo H, Fang Z, Song N, Garvey T, Lopez R, Meyer TJ. High Surface Area Antimony-Doped Tin Oxide Electrodes Templated by Graft Copolymerization. Applications in Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Catalysis. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2015; 7:25121-25128. [PMID: 26488595 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Mesoporous ATO nanocrystalline electrodes of micrometer thicknesses have been prepared from ATO nanocrystals and the grafted copolymer templating agents poly vinyl chloride-g-poly(oxyethylene methacrylate). As-obtained electrodes have high interfacial surface areas, large pore volumes, and rapid intraoxide electron transfer. The resulting high surface area materials are useful substrates for electrochemically catalyzed water oxidation. With thin added shells of TiO2 deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD) and a surface-bound Ru(II) polypyridyl chromophore, they become photoanodes for hydrogen generation in the presence of a reductive scavenger.
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- Hanlin Luo
- Department of Chemistry and ‡Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and ‡Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and ‡Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and ‡Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and ‡Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and ‡Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, United States
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Helms BA, Williams TE, Buonsanti R, Milliron DJ. Colloidal Nanocrystal Frameworks. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2015; 27:5820-9. [PMID: 25874909 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201500127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2015] [Revised: 02/24/2015] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Colloidal nanocrystal frameworks (CNFs) are a modular class of mesostructured porous materials, which are assembled from pre-formed nanocrystal building units using suitably designed block copolymer architecture-directing agents. The functional attributes of these frameworks are determined both by the physiochemical characteristics of the nanocrystal components as well as their ordered arrangements in space. It is noteworthy that their assembly schemes are readily amenable to more than one type of framework component, yielding a multivariate landscape to navigate mesoscale phenomena arising from the coupled interactions of different nanocrystals within the framework. Early reports indicate surprisingly efficient propagation of both matter and energy within and along the surfaces of these frameworks, although there remains much to be learned about the origins of their structural, electronic, and dynamic properties, and how they feed back across multiple length and time scales.
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- Brett A Helms
- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2929 7th Street, Berkeley, CA, 94710, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 200 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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Vamvasakis I, Subrahmanyam KS, Kanatzidis MG, Armatas GS. Template-directed assembly of metal-chalcogenide nanocrystals into ordered mesoporous networks. ACS NANO 2015; 9:4419-4426. [PMID: 25871841 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Although great progress in the synthesis of porous networks of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles with highly accessible pore surface and ordered mesoscale pores has been achieved, synthesis of assembled 3D mesostructures of metal-chalcogenide nanocrystals is still challenging. In this work we demonstrate that ordered mesoporous networks, which comprise well-defined interconnected metal sulfide nanocrystals, can be prepared through a polymer-templated oxidative polymerization process. The resulting self-assembled mesostructures that were obtained after solvent extraction of the polymer template impart the unique combination of light-emitting metal chalcogenide nanocrystals, three-dimensional open-pore structure, high surface area, and uniform pores. We show that the pore surface of these materials is active and accessible to incoming molecules, exhibiting high photocatalytic activity and stability, for instance, in oxidation of 1-phenylethanol into acetophenone. We demonstrate through appropriate selection of the synthetic components that this method is general to prepare ordered mesoporous materials from metal chalcogenide nanocrystals with various sizes and compositions.
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- Ioannis Vamvasakis
- †Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Vassilika Vouton, Heraklion 71003, Crete, Greece
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, Northwester University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, Northwester University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- §Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
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- †Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete, Vassilika Vouton, Heraklion 71003, Crete, Greece
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Liang Y, Lu C, Ding D, Zhao M, Wang D, Hu C, Qiu J, Xie G, Tang Z. Capping nanoparticles with graphene quantum dots for enhanced thermoelectric performance. Chem Sci 2015; 6:4103-4108. [PMID: 28717467 PMCID: PMC5497257 DOI: 10.1039/c5sc00910c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2015] [Accepted: 04/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are shown to serve as phase transfer agents to transfer various types of nanoparticles (NPs) from non-polar to polar solvents. Thorough characterization of the NPs proves complete native ligand exchange. Pellets of this GQD-NP composite show that the GQDs limit the crystal size during spark plasma sintering, yielding enhanced thermoelectric performance compared with NPs exchanged with inorganic ions. A photoluminescence study of the GQD-NP composite also suggests energy transfer from GQDs to NPs.
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- Yuantong Liang
- CAS Key Lab for Nanosystem and Hierarchy Fabrication , National Center for Nanoscience and Technology , Beijing , 100190 , China . ; .,Key Laboratory of Synthesis and Natural Functional Molecular Chemistry of Ministry of Education , College of Chemistry & Materials Science , Northwest University , Xi'an , 710069 , China .
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- CAS Key Lab for Nanosystem and Hierarchy Fabrication , National Center for Nanoscience and Technology , Beijing , 100190 , China . ;
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- CAS Key Lab for Nanosystem and Hierarchy Fabrication , National Center for Nanoscience and Technology , Beijing , 100190 , China . ;
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- CAS Key Lab for Nanosystem and Hierarchy Fabrication , National Center for Nanoscience and Technology , Beijing , 100190 , China . ;
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- CAS Key Lab for Nanosystem and Hierarchy Fabrication , National Center for Nanoscience and Technology , Beijing , 100190 , China . ;
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- Carbon Research Laboratory , Center for Nano Materials and Science , State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals , School of Chemical Engineering and Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Technology of Liaoning Province , Dalian University of Technology , Dalian 116024 , China
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- Carbon Research Laboratory , Center for Nano Materials and Science , State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals , School of Chemical Engineering and Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Technology of Liaoning Province , Dalian University of Technology , Dalian 116024 , China
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- Key Laboratory of Synthesis and Natural Functional Molecular Chemistry of Ministry of Education , College of Chemistry & Materials Science , Northwest University , Xi'an , 710069 , China .
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- CAS Key Lab for Nanosystem and Hierarchy Fabrication , National Center for Nanoscience and Technology , Beijing , 100190 , China . ;
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Bastakoti BP, Li Y, Imura M, Miyamoto N, Nakato T, Sasaki T, Yamauchi Y. Polymeric Micelle Assembly with Inorganic Nanosheets for Construction of Mesoporous Architectures with Crystallized Walls. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201410942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Bastakoti BP, Li Y, Imura M, Miyamoto N, Nakato T, Sasaki T, Yamauchi Y. Polymeric Micelle Assembly with Inorganic Nanosheets for Construction of Mesoporous Architectures with Crystallized Walls. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:4222-5. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201410942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Kovalenko MV, Manna L, Cabot A, Hens Z, Talapin DV, Kagan CR, Klimov VI, Rogach AL, Reiss P, Milliron DJ, Guyot-Sionnnest P, Konstantatos G, Parak WJ, Hyeon T, Korgel BA, Murray CB, Heiss W. Prospects of nanoscience with nanocrystals. ACS NANO 2015; 9:1012-57. [PMID: 25608730 DOI: 10.1021/nn506223h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 603] [Impact Index Per Article: 67.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs, i.e., crystalline nanoparticles) have become an important class of materials with great potential for applications ranging from medicine to electronic and optoelectronic devices. Today's strong research focus on NCs has been prompted by the tremendous progress in their synthesis. Impressively narrow size distributions of just a few percent, rational shape-engineering, compositional modulation, electronic doping, and tailored surface chemistries are now feasible for a broad range of inorganic compounds. The performance of inorganic NC-based photovoltaic and light-emitting devices has become competitive to other state-of-the-art materials. Semiconductor NCs hold unique promise for near- and mid-infrared technologies, where very few semiconductor materials are available. On a purely fundamental side, new insights into NC growth, chemical transformations, and self-organization can be gained from rapidly progressing in situ characterization and direct imaging techniques. New phenomena are constantly being discovered in the photophysics of NCs and in the electronic properties of NC solids. In this Nano Focus, we review the state of the art in research on colloidal NCs focusing on the most recent works published in the last 2 years.
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- Maksym V Kovalenko
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich , CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Doris SE, Lynch JJ, Li C, Wills AW, Urban JJ, Helms BA. Mechanistic Insight into the Formation of Cationic Naked Nanocrystals Generated under Equilibrium Control. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:15702-10. [DOI: 10.1021/ja508675t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Sean E. Doris
- The
Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron
Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- The
Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron
Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- The
Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron
Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- The
Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron
Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- The
Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron
Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- The
Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron
Road, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Tang Y, Wang HT, Chen M, Qian DJ, Zhang L, Liu M. Silver(I)-directed growth of metal-organic complex nanocrystals with bidentate ligands of hydroquinine anthraquinone-1,4-diyl diethers as linkers at the water-chloroform interface. NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS 2014; 9:488. [PMID: 25246874 PMCID: PMC4170212 DOI: 10.1186/1556-276x-9-488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2014] [Accepted: 09/07/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Immiscible liquid-liquid interfaces provide unique double phase regions for the design and construction of nanoscale materials. Here, we reported Ag(I)-directed growth of metal-organic complex nanocrystals by using AgNO3 as a connector in the aqueous solution and bidentate ligand of 1,4-bis(9-O-dihydroquininyl)anthraquinone [(DHQ)2AQN] and its enantiomer of (DHQD)2AQN in the chloroform solutions as linkers. The Ag-(DHQ)2AQN and Ag-(DHQD)2AQN complex nanocrystals were formed at the liquid-liquid interfaces and characterized by using UV-vis absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, as well as by using scanning electron microscopy. Screw-like nanocrystals were formed at the initial 30 min after the interfacial coordination reaction started, then they grew into nanorods after several days, and finally became cubic microcrystals after 2 weeks. The pure ligand showed two emission bands centered at about 363 and 522 nm in the methanol solution, the second one of which was quenched and shifted to about 470 nm in the Ag-complex nanocrystals. Two couples of reversible redox waves were recorded for the Ag-complex nanocrystals; one centered at about -0.25 V (vs. Ag/AgCl) was designated to one electron transfer process of Ag - (DHQ)2AQN and Ag - (DHQ)2AQN(+), and the other one centered at about 0.2 V was designated to one electron transfer process of Ag - (DHQ)2AQN and Ag(+) - (DHQ)2AQN.
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- Ying Tang
- Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 2 Zhongguancun Beiyijie, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid, Interface and Chemical Thermodynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 2 Zhongguancun Beiyijie, Beijing 100190, China
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- Avni Jain
- McKetta Dept. of Chemical Engineering; The University of Texas at Austin; Austin TX 78712
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- McKetta Dept. of Chemical Engineering; The University of Texas at Austin; Austin TX 78712
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- McKetta Dept. of Chemical Engineering; The University of Texas at Austin; Austin TX 78712
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Linley S, Liu Y, Ptacek CJ, Blowes DW, Gu FX. Recyclable graphene oxide-supported titanium dioxide photocatalysts with tunable properties. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2014; 6:4658-4668. [PMID: 24593830 DOI: 10.1021/am4039272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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A modular synthesis technique was developed for producing graphene-supported titanium dioxide photocatalysts. The modular synthesis allowed for simple tuning of the ratio of particle loading on the graphene oxide (GO) surface as well as good photocatalytic activity of the composite and quick, efficient magnetic separability. GO flakes were used as a support for titanium dioxide nanoparticles and SiO2 insulated nano-sized magnetite aggregates. Different composition ratios were tested, resulting in a catalyst formulation with photocatalytic activity exceeding that of a commercial photocatalyst by a factor of 1.2 as well as excellent recyclability, with the capability to degrade 3 mg/L methylene blue in aqueous solution over 10 consecutive trials with minimal loss in photocatalytic efficiency. Recovery of the catalyst was achieved by simply exposing the nanocomposite to a magnetic field for ∼1 minute. Furthermore, it was found that the catalyst could be regenerated to its initial efficiency through simple UV treatment to provide additional re-use. To highlight the importance of the nanocomposite to the current water treatment industry, we showed rapid degradation of pharmaceutical compounds caffeine and carbamazepine within 60 min. The nanocomposite shows activity exceeding that of commercial photocatalyst P25 with the added benefit of being fully recoverable, reusable, and easy to produce. Overall, a simple technique for producing and tuning an effective magnetically recyclable nanocomposite was developed which should allow easy scalability and industrial production, a factor critical for the implementation of nano-based water treatment techniques.
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- Stuart Linley
- Department of Chemical Engineering, ‡Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, §The Water Institute, and ∥Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Runnerstrom EL, Llordés A, Lounis SD, Milliron DJ. Nanostructured electrochromic smart windows: traditional materials and NIR-selective plasmonic nanocrystals. Chem Commun (Camb) 2014; 50:10555-72. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cc03109a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 361] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Electrochromic devices based on plasmon resonances in colloidal nanocrystals represent an important step towards realizing smart windows with ideal performance.
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- Evan L. Runnerstrom
- The Molecular Foundry
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Berkeley, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- The University of California
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- The Molecular Foundry
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Berkeley, USA
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- The Molecular Foundry
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Berkeley, USA
- Graduate Group in Applied Science and Technology
- The University of California
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- The Molecular Foundry
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Berkeley, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- The University of Texas at Austin
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Hill LJ, Richey NE, Sung Y, Dirlam PT, Griebel JJ, Shim IB, Pinna N, Willinger MG, Vogel W, Char K, Pyun J. Synthesis of ferromagnetic cobalt nanoparticle tipped CdSe@CdS nanorods: critical role of Pt-activation. CrystEngComm 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ce00680a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Activation of CdSe@CdS nanorods by a platinum deposition reaction enables selective deposition of a single dipolar cobalt nanoparticle tip per nanorod.
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- Lawrence J. Hill
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- University of Arizona
- Tucson, USA
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- World Class University Program for Chemical Convergence for Energy and Environment
- The National Creative Research Initiative Center for Intelligent Hybrids
- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Seoul National University
- Seoul 151-744, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- University of Arizona
- Tucson, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- University of Arizona
- Tucson, USA
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- Department of Nano and Electronic Physics
- Kookmin University
- Seoul, Korea
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- Institut für Chemie
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry
- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
- Germany
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- Department of Chemistry
- National Central University
- Taiwan
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- World Class University Program for Chemical Convergence for Energy and Environment
- The National Creative Research Initiative Center for Intelligent Hybrids
- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Seoul National University
- Seoul 151-744, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- University of Arizona
- Tucson, USA
- World Class University Program for Chemical Convergence for Energy and Environment
- The National Creative Research Initiative Center for Intelligent Hybrids
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