Amorphous materials are metastable solids with only short-range order at the atomic scale,
which results from local intermolecular chemical bonding. The lack of long-range order …

Atomically precise pieces of matter of nanometer dimensions composed of noble metals are
new categories of materials with many unusual properties. Over 100 molecules of this kind …

Heterostructured, including heterophase, noble-metal nanomaterials have attracted much
interest due to their promising applications in diverse fields. However, great challenges still …

Capping agents are frequently used in colloidal synthesis to inhibit nanoparticle overgrowth
and aggregation as well as to control the structural characteristics of the resulted …

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

A review article on fundamental aspects of thiolate self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on
the (111) and (100) surfaces of the Cu and Ni groups is presented. In particular this work is …

Conspectus The synthesis of monodisperse colloidal nanomaterials with well-defined
structures is important for both fundamental research and practical application. To achieve it …

Reversible addition–fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) polymerization is a powerful tool
for the precise formation of macromolecular building blocks that can be used for the …

In the past decades, metal-containing nanomaterials have attracted increasing interests
owing to their intriguing physicochemical properties and various promising applications …

The use of thiol ligands as a sulfur source for nanocrystal synthesis has recently come en
vogue, as the products are often high quality. A comparative study was performed of …