Oxide–and silicate–water interfaces and their roles in technology and the environment

JL Bañuelos, E Borguet, GE Brown Jr… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Nanoparticle assembly and oriented attachment: correlating controlling factors to the resulting structures

D Li, Q Chen, J Chun, K Fichthorn, J De Yoreo… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticle assembly and attachment are common pathways of crystal growth by which
particles organize into larger scale materials with hierarchical structure and long-range …

[HTML][HTML] The ReaxFF reactive force-field: development, applications and future directions

TP Senftle, S Hong, MM Islam, SB Kylasa… - npj Computational …, 2016 - nature.com
The reactive force-field (ReaxFF) interatomic potential is a powerful computational tool for
exploring, developing and optimizing material properties. Methods based on the principles …

Crystallization by particle attachment in synthetic, biogenic, and geologic environments

JJ De Yoreo, PUPA Gilbert, NAJM Sommerdijk… - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Numerous lines of evidence challenge the traditional interpretations of how
crystals nucleate and grow in synthetic and natural systems. In contrast to the monomer-by …

Synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles in flame sprays: review on process technology, modeling, and diagnostics

F Meierhofer, U Fritsching - Energy & Fuels, 2021 - ACS Publications
The gas synthesis of nanoparticles has gained major interest by different industries and
research groups for the development of new materials and their subsequent implementation …

A comparative study on the oxidation of two-dimensional Ti 3 C 2 MXene structures in different environments

R Lotfi, M Naguib, DE Yilmaz, J Nanda… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The oxidation of two-dimensional Ti3C2 MXene structures has been recognized as a
promising method for the formation of hybrid structures of carbon supported nanotitania …

[HTML][HTML] In-situ liquid cell transmission electron microscopy investigation on oriented attachment of gold nanoparticles

C Zhu, S Liang, E Song, Y Zhou, W Wang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Inside a liquid solution, oriented attachment (OA) is now recognized to be as important a
pathway to crystal growth as other, more conventional growth mechanisms. However, the …

Effect of metal ion intercalation on the structure of MXene and water dynamics on its internal surfaces

NC Osti, M Naguib, A Ostadhossein, Y Xie… - … applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
MXenes are a recently discovered class of 2D materials with an excellent potential for
energy storage applications. Because MXene surfaces are hydrophilic and attractive …

Theoretical insights into the surface physics and chemistry of redox-active oxides

R Rousseau, VA Glezakou, A Selloni - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Redox-active oxides find use in many applications, including catalysts, photovoltaic devices,
self-cleaning glasses, chemical sensors and electronic components. Their utility derives …

SSZ-13 crystallization by particle attachment and deterministic pathways to crystal size control

M Kumar, H Luo, Y Román-Leshkov… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Many synthetic and natural crystalline materials are either known or postulated to grow via
nonclassical pathways involving the initial self-assembly of precursors that serve as putative …