The design of nanoparticles is critical for their efficient use in many applications ranging from
biomedicine to sensing and energy. While shape and size are responsible for the properties …

Multicomponent metallic nanomaterials with unconventional phases show great prospects in
electrochemical energy storage and conversion, owing to unique crystal structures and …

Shape and size play powerful roles in determining the properties of a material; controlling
these aspects with precision is therefore an important, fundamental goal of the chemical …

Iron oxides are chemical compounds which have different polymorphic forms, including γ-
Fe2O3 (maghemite), Fe3O4 (magnetite), and FeO (wustite). Among them, the most studied …

Rare earth permanent magnets constitute a mature technology, but the shock of the 2011
rare earth crisis led to the re-evaluation of many ideas from the 1980s and 1990s about …

In the past two decades, the synthetic development of magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) has
been intensively explored for both fundamental scientific research and technological …

Ferrimagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (magnetite or maghemite) have been the subject of
an intense research, not only for fundamental research but also for their potentiality in a …

Crystal phase regulations may endow materials with enhanced or new functionalities.
However, syntheses of noble metal-based allomorphic nanomaterials are extremely difficult …

Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are of great scientific interest because of the size effect
associated with their magnetic properties and, even more so, because of their wide-ranging …

Wet chemistry in organic solvents has proven highly efficient for the preparation of several
types of metallic, metal-oxide, and semiconductor nanostructures. This Short Review …