The Pd-catalyzed Sonogashira reaction is a powerful method for the formation of Csp2–Csp
bonds and has found application in a wide variety of areas including medicinal chemistry …

The role of surfaces in materials properties is significantly pronounced when the materials
are designed in nanoscopic dimensions. Recent developments of nanomaterials chemistry …

Introducing atmospheric water harvesting (AWH), beyond the arid atmosphere, under
comfortable indoor humidity and temperature regime has its urgency in terms of …

Monodisperse Au, Ag, and Au3Pd nanoparticles (NPs) with narrow size distribution are
prepared by direct reaction of the related metal salt with oleylamine in toluene. Oleylamine …

Here we report the synthesis of Pd@ Cu core–shell nanocubes via epitaxial growth, where
the lattice mismatch is 7.1%. The synthesis involved the use of Pd seeds with different …

Layered silicates provide an interesting avenue to novel materials. There has been a
growing interest in recent years for the development of functional materials using tailor made …

The noncovalent self‐assembly of chromophores in an organoclay template results in the
formation of fluorescent hybrid hydrogels and films. These clay–dye hybrids act as novel …

The synthesis of aminoclays with Mg2+ or Fe3+, placed in metal centers by sol–gel reaction
with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) as a precursor, is demonstrated, producing …

Platinum nanostructures were synthesized by reduction of the PtCl2 (SMe2) 2 complex at
the interface between water and toluene at room temperature. Platinum nanosheets were …

Interest in lanthanide complexes in the synthetic clays remains growing considerably during
the last decades because of the attractive features of the individuals. Synthetic clays like …