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Nanoparticle manipulation requires careful analysis of the forces at play. Unfortunately, traditional force measurement techniques based on the particle velocity do not provide sufficient resolution, while balancing approaches involving counteracting force ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2024

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TiO2 quantum dot (QD) size nanoparticle colloids have shown tremendous photochromic response. Here we show that the of the photochromic response of TiO2 QDs can be further enhanced by doping. Our synthesis approach allows to reach high nominal doping level ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Optical manipulation of plasmonic nanoparticles: Applications in surface chemistry and nano-optics

Jeonghyeon Kim

Optical tweezers are devices that can manipulate nano- and microparticles using a laser. The principle of optical tweezers is to apply a force to an object using the momentum of light. This force is very small, but it is sufficient to move things in the mi ...

EPFL2023

Impact of Annealing on ZrO2 Nanotubes for Photocatalytic Application

Sami Rtimi

This work aims to study the structural, optical, and photocatalytic properties of ZrO2 nanotubes (NTs) that have been synthesized using the electrochemical anodization method. The structural and morphological characteristics of unannealed and annealed (400 ...

MDPI2023

Tailoring Morphology and Elemental Distribution of Cu-In Nanocrystals via Galvanic Replacement

Raffaella Buonsanti, Emad Oveisi, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Laia Castilla Amorós, Valery Okatenko

The compositional and structural diversity of bimetallic nanocrystals (NCs) provides a superior tunability of their physico-chemical properties, making them attractive for a variety of applications, including sensing and catalysis. Nevertheless, the manipu ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Visualizing Nanoscale Dynamics with Time-resolved Electron Microscopy

Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Pavel Olshin

The large number of interactions in nanoscale systems leads to the emergence of complex behavior. Understanding such complexity requires atomic-resolution observations with a time resolution that is high enough to match the characteristic timescale of the ...

2022

Cryogenic electron tomography to determine thermodynamic quantities for nanoparticle dispersions

Francesco Stellacci, Quy Ong Khac, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Davide Demurtas, Xufeng Xu, Francesca Olgiati, Anna Murello, Ting Mao

Here we present a method to extract thermodynamic quantities for nanoparticle dispersions in solvents. The method is based on the study of tomograms obtained from cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET). The approach is demonstrated for gold nanoparticles ( ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022

Structural Order of the Molecular Adlayer Impacts the Stability of Nanoparticle-on-Mirror Plasmonic Cavities

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Sachin Suresh Verlekar, Karla Banjac, Aqeel Ahmed, Fernando Pablo Cometto

Immense field enhancement and nanoscale confinement of light are possible within nanoparticle-on-mirror (NPoM) plasmonic resonators, which enable novel optically activated physical and chemical phenomena and render these nanocavities greatly sensitive to m ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

TiO2- based ceramics, from basic science to applications

Lidia Rocoffort de Vinnière

Nanomaterials and nanoparticles are nowadays used in a wide range of applications; from sunscreens, paint and food industry to catalytic processes, lighting, TV's and displays, their presence is percolating in our daily life. New applications rise every da ...

EPFL2020

CO2 chemical transformations using metal-organic frameworks

Serhii Shyshkanov

During the last decades, intensive efforts have been applied to tackle the enormous emissions of CO2 into atmosphere. These efforts include not only developing efficient carbon capture techniques, but also the introduction of new ways to transform the capt ...

EPFL2020

Self-induced thermo-optical effects in silicon and germanium dielectric nanoresonators

Giulia Tagliabue, Theodoros Tsoulos

Dielectric nanoresona tors uniquely support both magnetic and electric resonances across a wide wavelength range. They are thus being exploited in a growing number of groundbreaking applications. In particular, they have been recently suggested as promisin ...

2020

Microfluidic Fabrication of Capsule Sensor Platform with Double-Shell Structure

Esther Amstad

Metal nanoparticles are frequently employed for the colorimetric detection of specific target molecules using an aggregation-induced shift of the localized surface plasmon resonance. However, metal nanoparticles dispersed in bulk solutions are prone to be ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Molecular tunability of surface-functionalized metal nanocrystals for selective electrochemical CO2 reduction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Mounir Driss Mensi, James Richard Pankhurst, Yannick Thomas Guntern

Organic ligands are used in homogeneous catalysis to tune the metal center reactivity; in contrast, clean surfaces are usually preferred in heterogeneous catalysis. Herein, we demonstrate the potential of a molecular chemistry approach to develop efficient ...

2019

One-step access to N-enoxyimides by gold-catalysed addition of N-hydroxyimides to terminal alkynes

Nicolai Cramer, Coralie Danielle Annick Duchemin

N-Enoxyimides have become attractive substrates for novel catalytic transformations, yet their tedious multi-step synthesis hampers full exploitation of their synthetic potential. We report a gold(I)-catalyzed protocol to access N-enoxyimides from simple a ...

2019

Density effects on nanoparticle transport in the hyporheic zone

Qihao Jiang, David Andrew Barry, Ho Ling Li

A carbon solution composed of nanoparticles was used in experiments designed to explore nanoparticle transport characteristics within the hyporheic zone of a riverbed. Experiments and numerical simulations demonstrated that nanoparticle transport in the hy ...

2018

Potential-induced nanoclustering of metallic catalysts during electrochemical CO2 reduction

Nicola Marzari, Raffaella Buonsanti, Emad Oveisi, Anna Loiudice, Oliviero Andreussi, Jianfeng Huang, Nicolas Georg Hörmann, Gian Luca De Gregorio

In catalysis science stability is as crucial as activity and selectivity. Understanding the degradation pathways occurring during operation and developing mitigation strategies will eventually improve catalyst design, thus facilitating the translation of b ...

Nature Research2018

Unexpected Insights about Cation-Exchange on Metal Oxide Nanoparticles and Its Effect on Their Magnetic Behavior

Davide Deiana

Tuning the magnetic behavior of nanoparticles via the control of their features has always been challenging because these features are mostly intertwined. In the last years, a novel synthetic approach based on cation-exchange has been reported, and one of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

Investigation of Key Parameters Affecting Ion-Capturing Abilities of Mixed-Ligand Protected Gold Nanoparticles

Elif Ertem Bekdemir

Over the past decades, there has been a dramatic change in the types and amounts of metal ions in the biosphere, since we have introduced huge amount of metal waste into our environment in the course of industrialization of our society. Most of the metal c ...

EPFL2017

Catalyst stabilization by stoichiometrically limited layer-by-layer overcoating in liquid media

Jeremy Luterbacher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Benjamin Pierre Le Monnier

The use of metal oxide overcoats over supported nanoparticle catalysts has recently led to impressive improvements in catalyst stability and selectivity. The deposition of alumina is especially important for renewable catalysis due to its robustness in liq ...

Elsevier2017

Co-precipitation of oppositely charged nanoparticles: the case of mixed ligand nanoparticles

Francesco Stellacci, Javier Reguera Gomez, Mauro Moglianetti

Colloid stability is of high importance in a multitude of fields ranging from food science to biotechnology. There is strong interest in studying the stability of small particles (of a size of a few nanometres) with complex surface structures, that make th ...

Institute of Physics2015