Search Results - "Buonsanti, Raffaella"
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Magic clusters are better together
Published in Nature materials (01-05-2021)“…Hybrid materials constructed from the assembly of inorganic building blocks and organic linkers have shown unique properties and applications. Superstructures…”
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Structural Sensitivities in Bimetallic Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Revealed by Ag–Cu Nanodimers
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (13-02-2019)“…Understanding the structural and compositional sensitivities of the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) is fundamentally important for developing…”
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Developing the Chemistry of Colloidal Cu Nanocrystals to Advance the CO2 Electrochemical Reduction
Published in Chimia (25-08-2021)“…The ability to tailor make materials with atomic scale precision is crucial for understanding the sensitivities of their performance parameters and for…”
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Elucidating the Facet-Dependent Selectivity for CO2 Electroreduction to Ethanol of Cu–Ag Tandem Catalysts
Published in ACS catalysis (16-04-2021)“…Despite being desirable high-value products of the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR), alcohols are still obtained with lower selectivity compared…”
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Universal Oxide Shell Growth Enables in Situ Structural Studies of Perovskite Nanocrystals during the Anion Exchange Reaction
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (22-05-2019)“…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…”
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Facet-Dependent Selectivity of Cu Catalysts in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction at Commercially Viable Current Densities
Published in ACS catalysis (01-05-2020)“…Despite substantial progress in the electrochemical conversion of CO2 into value-added chemicals, the translation of fundamental studies into commercially…”
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Potential-induced nanoclustering of metallic catalysts during electrochemical CO2 reduction
Published in Nature communications (06-08-2018)“…In catalysis science stability is as crucial as activity and selectivity. Understanding the degradation pathways occurring during operation and developing…”
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Tailoring Copper Nanocrystals towards C2 Products in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Published in Angewandte Chemie (International ed.) (04-05-2016)“…Favoring the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) over the hydrogen evolution reaction and controlling the selectivity towards multicarbon products are currently…”
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Colloidal Nanocrystals as Precursors and Intermediates in Solid State Reactions for Multinary Oxide Nanomaterials
Published in Accounts of chemical research (16-02-2021)“…Conspectus Polyelemental compounds with dimensions in the nanosized regime are desirable in a large variety of applications, yet their synthesis remains a…”
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Colloidal Chemistry to Advance Studies in Artificial Photosynthesis
Published in Chimia (30-11-2016)“…This article presents an overview of our research in the field of colloidal nanocrystal synthesis and their implementation into water splitting and CO2…”
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Tunable Infrared Absorption and Visible Transparency of Colloidal Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide Nanocrystals
Published in Nano letters (09-11-2011)“…Plasmonic nanocrystals have been attracting a lot of attention both for fundamental studies and different applications, from sensing to imaging and…”
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Molecular tunability of surface-functionalized metal nanocrystals for selective electrochemical CO2 reduction
Published in Chemical science (Cambridge) (2019)“…Organic ligands are used in homogeneous catalysis to tune the metal center reactivity; in contrast, clean surfaces are usually preferred in heterogeneous…”
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Dynamically Modulating the Surface Plasmon Resonance of Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Published in Nano letters (12-10-2011)“…Localized surface plasmon absorption features arise at high doping levels in semiconductor nanocrystals, appearing in the near-infrared range. Here we show…”
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Substitutional or Interstitial Site-Selective Nitrogen Doping in TiO2 Nanostructures
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (02-04-2015)“…Herein, we report a colloidal wet-chemical approach enabling control on dopant concentration and location in a nanocrystal host lattice. Growth-doping and…”
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Elucidating the structure-dependent selectivity of CuZn towards methane and ethanol in CO2 electroreduction using tailored Cu/ZnO precatalysts
Published in Chemical science (Cambridge) (10-11-2021)“…Understanding the catalyst compositional and structural features that control selectivity is of uttermost importance to target desired products in chemical…”
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Quantitative 3D determination of self-assembled structures on nanoparticles using small angle neutron scattering
Published in Nature communications (09-04-2018)“…The ligand shell (LS) determines a number of nanoparticles’ properties. Nanoparticles’ cores can be accurately characterized; yet the structure of the LS, when…”
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Exceptionally Mild Reactive Stripping of Native Ligands from Nanocrystal Surfaces by Using Meerwein's Salt
Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (16-01-2012)“…Ole‐ain't: Trialkyl oxonium salts are universal reagents for native‐ligand stripping of carboxylate‐ (e.g., oleate‐), phosphonate‐, and amine‐passivated…”
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Fabrication of Planar Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells by Controlled Low-Pressure Vapor Annealing
Published in The journal of physical chemistry letters (05-02-2015)“…A new method for achieving high efficiency planar CH3NH3I3–x Cl x perovskite photovoltaics, based on a low pressure, reduced temperature vapor annealing is…”
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Colloidal Strategies for Preparing Oxide-Based Hybrid Nanocrystals
Published in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (01-02-2008)“…Recent progress of colloidal chemistry in the synthesis of multimaterial nanostructures incorporating transition‐metal oxides is reviewed. Attention is focused…”
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Nonhydrolytic Synthesis of High-Quality Anisotropically Shaped Brookite TiO2 Nanocrystals
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (20-08-2008)“…A surfactant-assisted nonaqueous strategy, relying on high-temperature aminolysis of titanium carboxylate complexes, has been developed to access…”
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