Sparked by natural photosynthesis, solar photocatalysis using metalfree graphitic carbon
nitride (gC3N4) with appealing electronic structure has turned up as the most captivating …

The pseudo-two-dimensional (2D) morphology of plate-like metal nanoparticles makes them
one of the most anisotropic, mechanistically understood, and tunable structures available …

The design of nanoparticles is critical for their efficient use in many applications ranging from
biomedicine to sensing and energy. While shape and size are responsible for the properties …

As one unique group of two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials, 2D metal nanomaterials have
drawn increasing attention owing to their intriguing physiochemical properties and broad …

In the past two decades, the synthetic development of magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) has
been intensively explored for both fundamental scientific research and technological …

Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are of great scientific interest because of the size effect
associated with their magnetic properties and, even more so, because of their wide-ranging …

Nanoparticle research has received considerable attention due to many potential innovative
applications such as biomedicine, 1, 2 catalysis, 3, 4 fuel cell, 5 magnetic data storage, 6 …

The syntheses of strongly anisotropic nanocrystals with one dimension much smaller than
the two others, such as nanoplatelets, are still greatly underdeveloped. Here, we …

Nanocrystals (NCs) discussed in this Review are tiny crystals of metals, semiconductors,
and magnetic material consisting of hundreds to a few thousand atoms each. Their size …

Nanocrystals are fundamental to modern science and technology. Mastery over the shape of
a nanocrystal enables control of its properties and enhancement of its usefulness for a given …