Conspectus Rationally designing and producing suitable catalysts to promote specific
reaction pathways remains a major objective in heterogeneous catalysis. One approach …

Thiols are widely utilized to functionalize metal nanoparticles, including ubiquitous citrate-
stabilized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), for fundamental studies and biomedical applications …

Ligands are the key to almost any strategy in the assembly of programmable nanocrystals
(or nanoparticles) and must be accurately considered in any predictive model. Hard Spheres …

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) possess unique physicochemical properties, which are
different from those of matter of the same chemical composition on a larger scale. These …

Functionalization of nanoparticles with specific ligands is helpful to control specific
diagnostic and therapeutic responses such as protein adsorption, cell targeting, and …

Use of bulky ligands (BLs) in the synthesis of metal nanoparticles (NPs) gives smaller core
sizes, sharpens the size distribution, and alters the discrete sizes. For BLs, the highly curved …

Through atomistic computational analysis of thermal transport in nanocrystal arrays (NCAs),
we find that vibrational states couple elastically across the organic–inorganic interfaces with …

Solvent engineering is a powerful and versatile method to tune colloidal stability. Here, we
link the molecular structure of apolar ligand shells on gold nanoparticles with their colloidal …

The transfer of heat from a plasmonic nanoparticle to its water environment has numerous
applications in the fields of solar energy conversion and photothermal therapies. Here, we …

Charged, monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with core diameters smaller than
10 nm have recently emerged as a prominent class of nanomaterial for use in targeted drug …