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Colloidal nanocrystals for photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic water splitting

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Chethana Janardhana Gadiyar

Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) are among the most modular and versatile nanomaterial platforms for studying emerging phenomena in different fields thanks to their superb compositional and morphological tunability. A promising, yet challenging, application in ...

2017

The Chemical Nature of the Oxide Directs the Stability and Reactivity of Copper|Oxide Interfaces in the Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Reaction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Petru Pasquale Albertini, Jari Leemans, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Krishna Kumar

Understanding the impact of composition and interfaces between metals and oxides is a goal of interest for many chemical reactions. Herein, we propose a framework to map correlations between the electrochemical behavior of the oxide and the stability and r ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Colloidal-ALD Grown Hybrid Shells Nucleate via a Ligand–Precursor Complex

David Lyndon Emsley, Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Kevin Rossi, Michael Allan Hope, Snaedis Björgvinsdóttir, Amrit Venkatesh, Ona Segura Lecina

Colloidal atomic layer deposition (c-ALD) enables the growth of hybrid organic/inorganic oxide shells with tunable thickness at the nanometer scale around ligand-functionalized inorganic nanoparticles (NPs). This recently developed method has demonstrated ...

2022

Shaping non-noble metal nanocrystals via colloidal chemistry

Raffaella Buonsanti, Laia Castilla Amorós, Valeria Mantella

Non-noble metal nanocrystals with well-defined shapes have been attracting increasingly more attention in the last decade as potential alternatives to noble metals, by virtue of their earth abundance combined with intriguing physical and chemical propertie ...

2020

Long-Range Exciton Diffusion in Two-Dimensional Assemblies of Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanocrystals

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice

Forster resonant energy transfer (FRET)-mediated exciton diffusion through artificial nanoscale building block assemblies could be used as an optoelectronic design element to transport energy. However, so far, nanocrystal (NC) systems supported only diffus ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Voltage-driven Chemical Reactions Enable the Synthesis of Tunable Liquid Ga – Metal Nanoparticles

Raffaella Buonsanti, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Anna Loiudice, Valery Okatenko, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Alexander Nicolas Chen, Krishna Kumar

Nanosized particles of liquid metals are emerging materials which hold promise for applications spanning from microelectronics to catalysis. Yet, the knowledge of their chemical reactivity is largely unknown. Here, we study the reactivity of liquid Ga and ...

2023

Long live(d) CsPbBr3 superlattices: colloidal atomic layer deposition for structural stability

Raffaella Buonsanti, Philippe Benjamin Green, Alexander Nicolas Chen

Superlattice formation afforded by metal halide perovskite nanocrystals has been a phenomenon of interest due to the high structural order induced in these self-assemblies, an order that is influenced by the surface chemistry and particle morphology of the ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Solution-based Cu+ transient species mediate the reconstruction of copper electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Jan Vávra, Petru Pasquale Albertini

Understanding metal surface reconstruction is of the utmost importance in electrocatalysis, as this phenomenon directly affects the nature of available active sites. However, its dynamic nature renders surface reconstruction notoriously difficult to study. ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Copper Nanocrystal Morphology Determines the Viability of Molecular Surface Functionalization in Tuning Electrocatalytic Behavior in CO2 Reduction

Raffaella Buonsanti, James Richard Pankhurst, Valery Okatenko, Pranit Srinivas Iyengar

Molecular surface functionalization of metallic catalysts is emerging as an ever-developing approach to tuning their catalytic performance. Here, we report the synthesis of hybrid catalysts comprising copper nanocrystals (CuNCs) and an imidazolium ligand f ...

2021

Optimizing the Atomic Layer Deposition of Alumina on Perovskite Nanocrystal Films by Using O-2 As a Molecular Probe

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Seryio Saris

Encapsulation methods have shown to be effective in imparting improved stability to metal-halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs). Atomic layer deposition (ALD) of metal oxides is one of the promising approaches for such encapsulation, yet better control on t ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Universal Oxide Shell Growth Enables in Situ Structural Studies of Perovskite Nanocrystals during the Anion Exchange Reaction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Seryio Saris, Michal Stanislaw Strach

The ability to tune thin oxide coatings by wet-chemistry is desirable for many applications, yet it remains a key synthetic challenge. In this work, we introduce a general colloidal atomic layer deposition (c-ALD) synthesis to grow an alumina shell with tu ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Exploring the Chemical Reactivity of Gallium Liquid Metal Nanoparticles in Galvanic Replacement

Raffaella Buonsanti, Laia Castilla Amorós, Dragos-Constantin Stoian, James Richard Pankhurst, Seyedehbehnaz Varandili

Micron/nanosized particles of liquid metals possess intriguing properties and are gaining popularity for applications in various research fields. Nevertheless, the knowledge of their chemistry is still very limited compared to that of other classes of mate ...

2020

Nanocrystal/Metal–Organic Framework Hybrids as Electrocatalytic Platforms for CO2 Conversion

Raffaella Buonsanti, Mounir Driss Mensi, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Jan Vávra, Valeria Mantella, James Richard Pankhurst, Yannick Thomas Guntern

The tunable chemistry linked to the organic/inorganic components in colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) offers a rich playground to advance the fundamental understanding of materials design for various applications. Herein, we ...

Wiley-VCH 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

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

Insights into Reaction Intermediates to Predict Synthetic Pathways for Shape-Controlled Metal Nanocrystals

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Shubhajit Das, James Richard Pankhurst, Valeria Mantella, Pranit Srinivas Iyengar, Michal Stanislaw Strach

Understanding nucleation phenomena is crucial across all branches of physical and natural sciences. Colloidal nanocrystals are among the most versatile and tunable synthetic nanomaterials. While huge steps have been made in their synthetic development, syn ...

2019

Metal-ligand bond strength determines the fate of organic ligands on the catalyst surface during the electrochemical CO(2)reduction reaction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Mounir Driss Mensi, Anna Loiudice, Pranit Srinivas Iyengar, James Richard Pankhurst

Colloidally synthesised nanocrystals (NCs) are increasingly utilised as catalysts to drive both thermal and electrocatalytic reactions. Their well-defined size and shape, controlled by organic ligands, are ideal to identify the parameters relevant to the a ...

2020

Colloidal Nanocrystals as Precursors and Intermediates in Solid State Reactions for Multinary Oxide Nanomaterials

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Valeria Mantella

Polyelemental compounds with dimensions in the nanosized regime are desirable in a large variety of applications, yet their synthesis remains a general challenge in chemistry. One of the major bottlenecks to obtaining multinary systems is the complexity of ...

American Chemical Society2021

The spatial distribution of cobalt phthalocyanine and copper nanocubes controls the selectivity towards C-2 products in tandem electrocatalytic CO2 reduction

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Valery Okatenko, Min Wang

The coupling of CO-generating molecular catalysts with copper electrodes in tandem schemes is a promising strategy to boost the formation of multi-carbon products in the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2. While the spatial distribution of the two component ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Atomic Control in Multicomponent Nanomaterials: when Colloidal Chemistry Meets Atomic Layer Deposition

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Ona Segura Lecina

In the past decades, atomically controlled multicomponent nanomaterials have served as platforms to advance the understanding of scientific phenomena along with providing practical solutions for various applications. Colloidal chemistry and atomic layer de ...

2020