Revisiting the green synthesis of nanoparticles: uncovering influences of plant extracts as reducing agents for enhanced synthesis efficiency and its biomedical …

H Singh, MF Desimone, S Pandya… - International Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Conventional nanoparticle synthesis methods involve harsh conditions, high
costs, and environmental pollution. In this context, researchers are actively searching for …

The many “facets” of halide ions in the chemistry of colloidal inorganic nanocrystals

S Ghosh, L Manna - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Over the years, scientists have identified various synthetic “handles” while developing wet
chemical protocols for achieving a high level of shape and compositional complexity in …

Robust and promising hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions by a nanostructured bifunctional FeCoPd alloy electrocatalyst

A Kumar, SK Purkayastha, AK Guha, MR Das… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, we developed trimetallic FeCoPd polyhedral alloy nanoparticles (NPs) as a new
highly efficient and promising bifunctional electrocatalyst for hydrogen and oxygen evolution …

Why the thin film form of a photocatalyst is better than the particulate form for direct solar-to-hydrogen conversion: a poor man's approach

N Nalajala, KK Patra, PA Bharad, CS Gopinath - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We demonstrated an easy method to improve the efficiency of photocatalysts by an order of
magnitude by maximizing light absorption and charge carrier diffusion. Degussa titania …

Aqueous Methanol to Formaldehyde and Hydrogen on Pd/TiO2 by Photocatalysis in Direct Sunlight: Structure Dependent Activity of Nano-Pd and Atomic Pt-Coated …

N Nalajala, KN Salgaonkar, I Chauhan… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the present investigation, facet-controlled Pd nanoparticles with nanocube (PdNC) and
truncated octahedron (PdTO) morphologies, and their counterparts with half-a-monolayer of …

Controlled overgrowth of five-fold concave nanoparticles into plasmonic nanostars and their single-particle scattering properties

JJ Velázquez-Salazar, L Bazán-Díaz, Q Zhang… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Growth of anisotropic nanostructures enables the manipulation of optical properties across
the electromagnetic spectrum by fine morphological tuning of the nanoparticles. Among …

Simultaneous successive twinning captured by atomic electron tomography

PM Pelz, C Groschner, A Bruefach, A Satariano… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Shape-controlled synthesis of multiply twinned nanostructures is heavily emphasized in
nanoscience, in large part due to the desire to control the size, shape, and terminating facets …

Effects of bromide adsorption on the direct synthesis of H2O2 on Pd nanoparticles: Formation rates, selectivities, and apparent barriers at steady-state

P Priyadarshini, T Ricciardulli, JS Adams, YS Yun… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The direct synthesis reaction (H 2+ O 2→ H 2 O 2) may provide a low-cost method to form H
2 O 2 if catalytic systems with sufficient selectivities and stabilities are developed. Here, we …

Electrocatalysis of oxygen reduction reaction on shape-controlled Pt and Pd nanoparticles—importance of surface cleanliness and reconstruction

R Devivaraprasad, N Nalajala, B Bera… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Shape-controlled precious metal nanoparticles have attracted significant research interest in
the recent past due to their fundamental and scientific importance. Because of their …

Form of the catalytically active Pd species during the direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide

P Priyadarshini, DW Flaherty - AIChE Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Direct synthesis of H2O2 could produce H2O2 at lower cost than the Riedl–Pfleiderer
process, which would enable the broader use of H2O2 for industrial oxidations. The addition …