Nanoparticle assembly and attachment are common pathways of crystal growth by which
particles organize into larger scale materials with hierarchical structure and long-range …

The self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles is of great importance in realizing their
enormous potentials for broad applications due to the advanced collective properties of …

Liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been recently applied to
materials chemistry to gain fundamental understanding of various reaction and phase …

The ability of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to image a structure ranging from
millimetres to Ångströms has made it an indispensable component of the toolkit of modern …

Nucleation and growth are universally important in systems from the atomic to the
micrometre scale as they dictate structural and functional attributes of crystals. However, at …

Molecular self-assembly is pervasive in the formation of living and synthetic materials.
Knowledge gained from research into the principles of molecular self-assembly drives …

With the increase in dependence on renewable energy sources, interest in energy storage
systems has increased, particularly with solar cells, redox flow batteries, and lithium …

Graphene liquid cell electron microscopy (GLC-EM), a cutting-edge liquid-phase EM
technique, has become a powerful tool to directly visualize wet biological samples and the …

Polymer patching on inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) enables multifunctionality and directed
self-assembly into nonclosely packed optical and mechanical metamaterials. However …

Quantitative measurement is one of the ultimate targets for surface-enhanced Raman
spectroscopy (SERS), but it suffers from difficulties in controlling the uniformity of hot spots …