Younan Xia

TL;DR: In this article, gold nanoparticles, fractal nanosheets or nanowires are selectively deposited on electrospun titania nanofibers through photocatalytic reduction of HAuCl4 in the presence of an organic capping reagent.

TL;DR: The processing of an achiral material into helical mesostructures having well-controlled handedness should allow us to explore new properties that this material otherwise does not exhibit and may provide valuable insights to improve understanding on the mechanism(s) by which pure enantiomers with a particular sense of rotation evolved in nature.

TL;DR: This work demonstrates a thermally stable catalytic system consisting of Pt nanoparticles that are supported on a TiO2 nanofiber and coated with a porous SiO2 sheath that offers an energy barrier to prevent the migration of individual Pt atoms or nanoparticles because of its weak interaction with late transition metals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed the use of nanoparticles as a platform for cancer therapy and many other biomedical applications, and demonstrated that multiple types of therapeutic drugs and/or diagnostic agents (e.g., contrast agents) could be delivered through the same carrier to enable combination therapy with a potential to overcome multidrug resistance, and real-time readout on the treatment efficacy.

TL;DR: The synthesis of Pd@Cu core-shell nanocubes via epitaxial growth, where the lattice mismatch is 7.1% is reported, which takes a cubic shape enclosed by {100} facets regardless of the type of PD seeds used.