A. Paul Alivisatos

TL;DR: In this article , the authors demonstrate that atomically thin and homogeneous platinum shells can be grown via a colloidal synthesis method on a variety of gold nanostructures ranging from spherical nanoparticles to nanorods and nanocubes.

TL;DR: In this article, a process for producing a catalyst comprising an intermetallic compound comprising following steps: (a) Dissolving a metal selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, Ca, Sr, Ba, Eu and Yb in liquid ammonia, (b) Adding nanoparticles comprising a metal and an inorganic salt to the solution obtained in step (a), (c) Removing the liquid ammonium, (d) Annealing the mixture of step(c) at a temperature in the range between 200° C. and the melting temperature of the intermet

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed the concept of a "phonon bottleneck", a theorized slowing of the cool-down of the cooling process of a single-junction silicon photovoltaics.

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical size has been identified below which the shapes of complex nanocrystals evolve toward the equilibrium shape with lowest energy during the exchange reaction, and above the critical size, the anion sublattice remains intact and the basic shapes of the initial nanocrystal are retained throughout the cation exchange.