Adam J. Biacchi

TL;DR: The catalytically active Ni2P nanoparticles had among the highest HER activity of any non-noble metal electrocatalyst reported to date, producing H2(g) with nearly quantitative faradaic yield, while also affording stability in aqueous acidic media.

TL;DR: Under UV illumination in both acidic and neutral-pH solutions, FeP nanoparticles deposited on TiO2 produced H2 at rates and amounts that begin to approach those of Pt/TiO2, therefore FeP is a highly Earth-abundant material for efficiently facilitating the HER both electrocatalytic and photocatalytically.

TL;DR: Amorphous molybdenum phosphide (MoP) nanoparticles have been synthesized and characterized as electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in 0.50 M H2SO4 (pH 0.3).

TL;DR: It is shown that proper selection of the polyol solvent can be used to manipulate the metal nanoparticle morphology, which facilitates the high-yield synthesis of monodisperse rhodium nanoparticles with shapes that include icosahedra, cubes, triangular plates, and octahedra.

TL;DR: The synthesis of colloidal SnS cubes, spherical polyhedra, and sheets are reported and their activity for the photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue is demonstrated and an in-depth crystallographic analysis is studied using high-resolution TEM data of individual nanocrystals with ensemble-based electron diffraction and powder XRD data.