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Effects of Hyporheic Exchange and Settlement on the Particle Size Distribution of Colloids

Colloid particle size plays an important role in contaminant adsorption and clogging in the hyporheic zone, but it remains unclear how the particle size changes during the transport of colloids. This study investigated the variation of the particle size of ...

Springer2024

Second harmonic scattering of nanoparticles: A journey into the electrical double layer

Bingxin Chu

In aqueous solutions, a charged surface causes the redistribution of nearby ions. The ion layers formed are known as the electrical double layer (EDL), and are widespread in many systems involving electrochemistry, colloidal science, biomedicine, and energ ...

EPFL2024

Plasmonic Nanostructures for Photocatalysis: Material, Photonic and Electronic Effects

Fateme Kiani Shahvandi

Plasmonic photochemistry has a large potential to replace energy-intensive chemical processes with low-temperature, low-pressure light-driven chemical reactions. Plasmonic nanostructures have emerged as promising photocatalysts with exceptional and tunable ...

EPFL2024

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

Modulating the Surface Properties of Lithium Niobate Nanoparticles by Multifunctional Coatings Using Water-in-Oil Microemulsions

Sandrine Gerber, Alessandra Spada, Adrian Stefan Gheata

Inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) have emerged as promising tools in biomedical applications, owing to their inherent physicochemical properties and their ease of functionalization. In all potential applications, the surface functionalization strategy is a key ...

2023

Molecular insights into the electrical double layer of colloidal oxide particles obtained through second harmonic scattering

Marie Bischoff

Photocatalytic applications play an essential role in the search for alternative energy sources and environmental decontamination techniques. It is of fundamental interest to understand on a molecular level the aqueous solid/liquid interface, where photoca ...

EPFL2022

Low and high frequency electromagnetic forces: numerical modelling and practical applications

Marco Riccardi

The understanding and manipulation of nanoscale analytes is a central theme in nanotechnology and has been one of the main driving forces behind the development of this field as we know it today. Furthermore, such a technology has the potential to also rev ...

EPFL2022

Colloidal transport and deposition through dense vegetation

David Andrew Barry, Li Chen

The effectiveness of submerged synthetic aquatic vegetation on removal of colloids from flowing water was investigated to explore retention of particulate nonpoint source pollutants in aquatic systems. In colloid transport experiments, the deposition rate ...

Elsevier2022

Ion-bridges and lipids drive aggregation of same-charge nanoparticles on lipid membranes

Francesco Stellacci, Zekiye Pelin Güven

The control of the aggregation of biomedical nanoparticles (NP) in physiological conditions is crucial as clustering may change completely the way they interact with the biological environment. Here we show that Au nanoparticles, functionalized by an anion ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

In-situ Investigations on Gold Nanoparticles Stabilization Mechanisms in Biological Environments Containing HSA

Francesco Stellacci, Quy Ong Khac, Antonia Neels, Marianne Liebi

Nanoparticles (NPs) developments advance innovative biomedical applications. However, complex interactions and the low colloidal stability of NPs in biological media restrict their widespread utilization. The influence of NPs properties on the colloidal st ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Volumetric Additive Manufactuing of Ceramics

Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Paul Delrot, Jorge Andres Madrid Wolff, Georgia Konstantinou

Two-photon additive manufacturing of ceramic materials has demon-strated high-precision manufacturing of tools at the micrometer scale. Here, we propose single photon volumetric additive manufacturing toovercome limitations on print size and which avoid th ...

IEEE2021

Aggregation of discoidal particles due to depletion interaction

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora

Depletion interactions between colloids of discoidal shape can induce their self-assembly into columnar aggregates. This is an effect of entropic origin with important implications in a range of colloidal systems, particularly in the clustering of erythroc ...

2021

Developing the Chemistry of Colloidal Cu Nanocrystals to Advance the CO2 Electrochemical Reduction

Raffaella Buonsanti

The ability to tailor make materials with atomic scale precision is crucial for understanding the sensitivities of their performance parameters and for achieving the design specification corresponding to optimal device operation. Herein, this topic is disc ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2021

New approach for time-resolved and dynamic investigations on nanoparticles agglomeration

Francesco Stellacci, Antonia Neels, Alex Dommann, Urszula Beata Cendrowska

Nanoparticle (NP) colloidal stability plays a crucial role in biomedical application not only for human and environmental safety but also for NP efficiency and functionality. NP agglomeration is considered as a possible process in monodispersed NP colloida ...

TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS2020

Stable Ultraconcentrated and Ultradilute Colloids of CsPbX3 (X = Cl, Br) Nanocrystals Using Natural Lecithin as a Capping Ligand

Francesco Stellacci, Quy Ong Khac

Attaining thermodynamic stability of colloids in a broad range of concentrations has long been a major thrust in the field of colloidal ligand-capped semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs). This challenge is particularly pressing for the novel NCs of cesium lead ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

A Unified View on Nanoscale Packing, Connectivity, and Conductivity of CNT Networks

Claudio Grimaldi

The design of functional structures from primary building blocks requires a thorough understanding of how size, shape, and particle-particle interactions steer the assembly process. Specifically, for electrically conductive networks build from carbon nanot ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

From Experiment to Kinetic and Thermodynamic Modelling of Precipitation: Examples of Calcium Silicate Hydrate (C-S-H) and Gold Nanoparticles

Mohammad Reza Andalibi

Precipitation is a process wherein a solid phase forms from a solution. Precipitation is at the heart of many industries producing pharmaceuticals, catalysts, ceramics, and nanoparticles. In addition to being a material synthesis route, precipitation has i ...

EPFL2019

Synthesis and Characterization of Amphiphilic Gold Nanoparticles

Francesco Stellacci, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Matteo Gasbarri, Zhi Luo, Zekiye Pelin Güven, Urszula Beata Cendrowska, Samuel Thomas Jones

Gold nanoparticles covered with a mixture of 1-octanethiol (OT) and 11-mercapto-1-undecane sulfonic acid (MUS) have been extensively studied because of their interactions with cell membranes, lipid bilayers, and viruses. The hydrophilic ligands make these ...

JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS2019

Active apolar doping determines routes to colloidal clusters and gels

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora

Collections of interacting active particles, self-propelling or not, have shown remarkable phenomena including the emergence of dynamic patterns across different length scales, from animal groups to vibrated grains, microtubules, bacteria, and chemicalor f ...

National Academy of Sciences2018

Micro-mechanics of 3D architectured metals synthesized by electrodeposition

Maxime Alain Baptiste Mieszala

Cellular metallic materials have emerged as a new promising class of materials due to their lightweight porous structures and advanced multi-functional properties. Originally limited to random metallic foams, modern lithography techniques have enabled the ...

EPFL2018