NOTICE: Due to a lapse in annual appropriations, most of this website is not being updated. Learn more.

Form submissions will still be accepted but will not receive responses at this time. Sections of this site for programs using non-appropriated funds (such as NVLAP) or those that are excepted from the shutdown (such as CHIPS and NVD) will continue to be updated.

U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Nanotechnology

Nanochemistry

Search Publications

Search Title, Abstract, Conference, Citation, Keyword or Author
  • Published Date
Displaying 1 - 25 of 95

Synthesis and Size Dependence of Strongly Interacting Ferrite Nano-Objects: Implications for Magnetic Particle Imaging and Spatially Resolved Thermometry

September 25, 2024
Author(s)
Frank Abel, Eduardo De Lima Correa, Thinh Bui, Adam Biacchi, Michael J. Donahue, Mia Merritt, Jonathan Seppala, Solomon I. Woods, Angela Hight Walker, Cindi Dennis
High crystal quality nano-ferrites with short surface ligands (oleic acid) were recently shown to exhibit enhanced spatial resolution in magnetic particle imaging (MPI). Here, we develop a simple one-pot thermal decomposition approach to produce ferrite

Solution Synthesis of NdTe3 Magnetic Nanosheets

July 4, 2024
Author(s)
Joel Swanson, Salah El Jamal, Tyler Hartman, Orlando Stewart, Priscilla Glaser, Adam Biacchi, DaVonne Henry, Amy Liu, Sarah Stoll
Neodymium tritelluride is a layered van der Waals material, with correlated electronic properties including high electronic mobility, charge density waves, and antiferromagnetism. We developed a solution synthesis method to form free standing nanosheets of

Stability-Enhanced Cisplatin Gold Nanoparticles as Therapeutic Anticancer Agents

December 22, 2023
Author(s)
Tae Joon Cho, Vytas Reipa, John Pettibone, Justin Gorham, Allesandro Tona, Aaron Johnston-Peck, Bryant C. Nelson, Vincent Hackley
Using dendron chemistry, we developed stability-enhanced carboxylate surfacemodified (negatively charged dendron) AuNPs (Au-NCD). Since the carboxylate surface of Au- NCD is optimal for complexation with cisplatin (Pt) moieties, we further synthesized Pt

Mid-Infrared, Near-Infrared, and Visible Nanospectroscopy of Hydrogen-Intercalated MoO3

August 21, 2023
Author(s)
Jeffrey Schwartz, Sergiy Krylyuk, Devon Jakob, Albert Davydov, Andrea Centrone
Control over the local chemical composition and spatial heterogeneities in nanomaterials provides a means to impart new functions and to tailor their properties in many applications. For two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials, intercalation is one

CO Reduction on Single-atom Copper

July 26, 2023
Author(s)
Yuxuan Wang, Hao Shen, Bin Xue, Boyang Li, Nicole Libretto, Han Zong, Wenjun Xie, Ziyuan Li, Guangye Zhou, Jeffrey Vetik, Jeffrey T. Miller, Guofeng Wang, Chao Wang, David Raciti

Direct Visualization of Chemically Resolved Multilayered Domains in Mixed-Linker Metal-Organic Frameworks

June 15, 2023
Author(s)
Andrea Centrone, Belen Lerma-Berlanga, Adam Biacchi, Carmen Fernandez Conde, Georges Pavlidis, Carlos Marti-Gastaldo
The modular synthesis approach for assembling inorganic nodes and organic multidentate linkers into reticular solids enables rational engineering in porous materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Incorporation of two or more linker types in MOF

Enhanced Atomic Precision Fabrication by Adsorption of Phosphine into Engineered Dangling Bonds on H-Si Using STM and DFT

November 1, 2022
Author(s)
Jonathan Wyrick, Xiqiao Wang, Pradeep Namboodiri, Ranjit Kashid, Fan Fei, Joseph Fox, Richard M. Silver
Doping of Si using the scanning probe technique of hydrogen depassivation lithography has been shown to enable placing and positioning small numbers of P atoms with nanometer accuracy. Several groups have now used this capability to build devices that

Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging

October 24, 2022
Author(s)
Jeremy Schultz
Atomic scale spectroscopy provides an exceptional ability to define electronic, optical, thermal, mechanical, and chemical properties of materials at the nanoscale. At these scales, dimensional confinement can lead to new and unusual properties, where the

Polyoxovanadates as Precursors for the Synthesis of Colloidal Multi-Metal Oxide Nanocrystals

March 31, 2022
Author(s)
Adam Biacchi, Lucas Johnson, Ashley Sweet, Eric Cal, Angela R. Hight Walker, Matthew Buck, Luke Barrante
Colloidal multi-metal oxide nanocrystals that contain the element vanadium are attractive materials for enabling diverse technologies. Few nanocrystal systems are synthetically well-developed, however, which is attributable to a scarcity of molecular

Synthesis of Mixed-Valent Lanthanide Sulfide Nanoparticles

August 23, 2021
Author(s)
Pricilla Glaser, Orlando Stewart, Rida Atif, Dane Asuigui, Joel Swanson, Adam Biacchi, Angela R. Hight Walker, Gregory Morrison, Hans-Conrad zur Loye, Sarah Stoll
In targeting reduced valence lanthanides, we report the first nanoparticle synthesis of the mixed-valent ferromagnets Eu3S4 and EuSm2S4. Using divalent lanthanide halides with bis(trimethylsilyl)sulfide and oleylamine, we prepared nanoparticles of EuS

Dynamic Structure of Active Sites in Ceria-Supported Pt Catalysts for the Water Gas Shift Reaction

February 10, 2021
Author(s)
Yuanyuan Li, Matthew Kottwitz, Joshua L. Vincent, Zongyuan Liu, Michael J. Enright, Lihua Zhang, Jiahao Huang, Sanjaya D. Senanayake, Wei-Chang Yang, Peter A. Crozier, Ralph G. Nuzzo, Anatoly I. Frenkel
Oxide-supported noble metal catalysts have been extensively studied for decades for the water gas shift (WGS) reaction, a catalytic transformation central to a host of large volume processes that variously utilize or produce hydrogen. There remains

Probing Electrified Liquid-Solid Interfaces with Scanning Electron Microscopy

December 2, 2020
Author(s)
Hongxuan Guo, Alexander Yulaev, Evgheni Strelcov, Alexander Tselev, Christopher M. Arble, Andras Vladar, John S. Villarrubia, Andrei Kolmakov
The mean free path of secondary electrons in aqueous solutions is on the order of a nanometer, making them a suitable probe of ultrathin electrical double layers at solid-liquid electrolyte interfaces. Employing graphene as an electron-transparent

Parallel multi-parameter study of PEI-functionalized gold nanoparticle synthesis for bio- medical applications: Part 2. Elucidating the role of surface chemistry and polymer structure on performance

November 10, 2020
Author(s)
Tae Joon Cho, Justin M. Gorham, John M. Pettibone, Jingyu Liu, Jiaojie Tan, Vincent A. Hackley
Despite the breadth and quality of published work in this area, it remains unclear how the specific properties of polyethyleneimine (PEI) and the methods utilized to conjugate it to gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) impact the final product morphology and

Design and Engineering Colloidal Magnetic Particles for Nanoscale Thermometry

September 2, 2020
Author(s)
Adam J. Biacchi, Thinh Q. Bui, Cindi L. Dennis, Solomon I. Woods, Angela R. Hight Walker
Thermometry based on magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) is an emerging technology that allows for remote temperature measurements throughout a volume that are impossible to achieve using conventional probe-based or optical methods. This metrology is based on

Extraordinary performance of semiconducting metal oxide gas sensors using dielectric excitation

May 11, 2020
Author(s)
Andrei A. Kolmakov, Radislav A. Potyrailo, Steven Go, Daniel Sexton, Xiaxi Li, Nasr Alkadi, Bruce Amm, Richard St-Pierre, Brian Scherer, Majid Nayeri, Guang Wu, Christopher Collazo-Davila, Doug Forman, Chris Calvert, Craig Mack, Philip Mcconnell
Electrical response of metal oxide semiconducting (MOS) materials to gases was discovered 70 years ago [1] and miniature low-cost MOS chemiresistors became the most popular gas sensors when chemical selectivity is not required [2, 3]. When discrimination

Nanoscale mapping of the double layer potential at the graphene-electrolyte interface

January 28, 2020
Author(s)
Evgheni Strelcov, Christopher M. Arble, Hongxuan Guo, Brian D. Hoskins, Alexander Yulaev, Ivan Vlassiouk, Nikolai B. Zhitenev, Alexander Tselev, Andrei A. Kolmakov
The structure and potential drop across the electrical double layer (EDL) govern the operation of multiple electrochemical devices, determine reaction potentials and condition ion transport through the cellular membranes in living organisms. Despite more

Separation of Specific Single Enantiomer Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes in the Large Diameter Regime

November 19, 2019
Author(s)
Jeffrey A. Fagan, Ming Zheng, Sofie Cambre, Wim Wenseleers, Benjamin Flavel, Han Li, Stephanie Reich, Georgy Gordeev, Oisin Garrity, Naga Peyyety, Ralph Krupke, Pranauv Selvasundaram
Enantiomer level isolation of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) in high concentration and purity for nanotubes greater than 1.1 nm in diameter is demonstrated for the first time using a twostage aqueous two-phase extraction (ATPE) technique. In total 5

Topology, Landscapes, and Biomolecular Energy Transport

October 11, 2019
Author(s)
Justin E. Elenewski, Kirill Velizhanin, Michael P. Zwolak
While ubiquitous, energy redistribution remains a poorly understood facet of the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of biomolecules. At the molecular level, finite-size effects, pronounced nonlinearities, and ballistic processes conspire to produce behavior
Was this page helpful?