Michael G. Taylor

TL;DR: It is shown from both simulations and experiments that zwitterion functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can be used to construct highly efficient desalination membranes and theoretical predictions indicate that an ideal CNT/polymer membrane having a loading of 20 wt % CNTs would have a maximum flux of about 20000 GFD at the conditions of the authors' experiments.

TL;DR: The results of bulk crystallization, in situ atomic force microscopy, and density functional theory studies are qualitatively consistent with a hypothesis that inhibitor–crystal interactions impart localized strain to the crystal lattice and that oxalate and calcium ions are released into solution to alleviate this strain.

TL;DR: A site-specific “surgery” on the surface motif of an atomically precise 23-gold-atom [Au23(SR)16]− nanoparticle is demonstrated by a two-step metal-exchange method, which leads to the “resection” of two surface gold atoms and the formation of a new 21- gold-atom nanoparticle, without changing the other parts of the starting nanoparticle structure.

TL;DR: Surprisingly, a fine energy balance between the core cohesive energy and the shell-to-core binding energy that appears to drive nanocluster stabilization is revealed.

TL;DR: This work greatly expands doping chemistry for tailoring the structures of nanocluster structures and is expected to open new avenues for designing nanoclusters with novel surface structures using different dopants.