Xingchen Ye

TL;DR: The CTAB-NaOL binary surfactant mixture overcomes the difficulty of growing uniform thick gold NRs often associated with the single-component CTAb system and greatly expands the dimensions of goldNRs that are accessible through a one-pot seeded growth process.

TL;DR: A facile ligand-exchange approach is reported, which enables sequential surface functionalization and phase transfer of colloidal NCs while preserving the NC size and shape and represents an important step toward controllably engineering the surface properties of NCs.

TL;DR: An improved synthesis of colloidal gold nanorods (NRs) is reported by using aromatic additives that reduce the concentration of hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide surfactant to ~0.05 M as opposed to 0.1 M in well-established protocols.

TL;DR: It is shown that colloidal inorganic nanoparticles can self-assemble into binary aperiodic superlattices, indicating that the formation of quasicrystalline nanoparticle assemblies does not require a unique combination of interparticles interactions, but is a general sphere-packing phenomenon governed by the entropy and simple interparticle potentials.

TL;DR: A one-pot chemical approach for the synthesis of highly monodisperse colloidal nanophosphors displaying bright upconversion luminescence under 980 nm excitation and an interfacial assembly strategy to organize these nanocrystals into superlattices over multiple length scales facilitating the NC characterization and enabling systematic studies of shape-directed assembly are reported.