Monodisperse nanoparticles for catalysis and nanomedicine

Abstract

Monodisperse nanoparticles are successful model systems for understanding structure–property relationships at the nanoscale and applications like catalysis and nanomedicine.

Synthesis of highly monodisperse Pd nanoparticles using a binary surfactant combination and sodium oleate as a reductant

“…By precise control of the reaction parameters, e.g. precursor concentration, temperature, and capping agents, monodisperse NPs with defined shapes can be formed, and the properties can be tuned to optimize the performance in the desired application [9][10][11][12] . For instance, monodisperse PdNPs can restrain the increasing relationship between multiple intermediates on a catalyst surface.…”

A Facile Route for the Preparation of Monodisperse Iron nitride at Silica Core/shell Nanostructures

“…The preparation of monodisperse nanostructured materials is of key importance and has been intensively pursued because they exhibit size- and shape-dependent physical and chemical properties ( Goldstein et al, 1992 ; Xu et al, 1994 ; Alivisatos, 1996 ; El-Sayed, 2001 ; Hyeon, 2003 ; Daniel and Astruc, 2004 ; Burda et al, 2005 ; Im et al, 2005 ; Zettsu et al, 2006 ; Schmid, 2010 ; Muzzio et al, 2019 ). In recent years, remarkable advances have been made in the synthesis of monodisperse metal oxide nanoparticles ( Hyeon et al, 2001 ; Joo et al, 2003 ; Seo et al, 2003 ; Yin and O’Brien, 2003 ; Park et al, 2004 , 2005 , 2007 ; Sun et al, 2004 ; Tang et al, 2004 ; Yin et al, 2004 , 2005 ; Liu et al, 2005 ; An et al, 2006 ; Kwon et al, 2007 ; Mendoza-Garcia and Sun, 2016 ).…”

Synergistic Effect over Sub-nm Pt Nanocluster@MOFs Significantly Boosts Photo-oxidation of N-alkyl(iso)quinolinium Salts

“…Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have shown great potential in photocatalytic reactions by virtue of their well-defined structures, porosity, and the ability to incorporate multiple functionalities (Zhang et al, 2017a(Zhang et al, , 2017bWu et al, 2012;Chen et al, 2019;Liu et al, 2014;Wu and Zhoa, 2017;Ji et al, 2017;Dhakshinamoorthy et al, 2018;Xia et al, 2017;Aijaz and Xu, 2014;Lee et al, 2009;Pascanu et al, 2019;Yang and Wang, 2018;Zhou et al, 2012;Saha et al, 2014;Luo et al, 2019). In particular, MOFs have provided a versatile platform to introduce multiple components, such as photosensitizers (PSs) and catalysts, for efficient conversion of solar energy via synergistic catalysis (Deng et al, 2017;Dhakshinamoorthy et al, 2018;Muzzio et al, 2019;Sun and Li, 2016;Wang and Li, 2016;Wu and Zhao, 2017;Xia et al, 2017;Yang et al, 2017). With their excellent stability and tailorability, Zr-based MOFs have been widely studied for artificial photosynthesis (Abdel-Mageed et al, 2019;Bai et al, 2016a;Chen et al, 2017;Howarth et al, 2016;Kandiah et al, 2010;Liu et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2012) and photocatalytic organic reactions (Wang et al, 2012;Paille et al, 2018;Sun et al, 2018;Xu et al, 2015) by hierarchical integration of PSs and catalysts to accelerate electron transfer and promote the separation of photogenerated electron-hole pairs (Choi et al, 2017;…”