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Metal Nanoparticles 2012

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2012) | Viewed by 15839

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Chemical Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Austin, Room CPE 5.404, 1 University Station C0400, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Interests: metal particles; electron microscopy; electron diffraction; catalysis; nanotechnology; synthesis of new materials

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Metal nanoparticles are one cornerstones of modern nanotechnology. Many of the current and future applications of the field are based on metal nanoparticles. For instance in the biomedical area Gold nanoparticles have long been used for research. Silver nanoparticles antibacterial properties are now incorporated in many commercial products worldwide. Despite of vast research on the field many problems remain outstanding and pose very important scientific and technological challenges. In this special issue we call authors to send contributions on the following topics:

  • Advances on controlled synthesis of metal nanoparticles: The era in which any synthesis method was acceptable is over. There is a need of increasing the control on the size, shape and crystalline structure of the nanoparticles. The report of reproducible synthesis methods implies a more detailed description of parameters.
  • New characterization methods for nanoparticles: It is necessary to learn more about the exact structure of the nanoparticles. Is there any internal stress? Can we measure the internal stress? Is there different crystallography for the same metal? What is the composition of the surface of the nanoparticles? This and other questions may require advanced characterization methods such as aberration corrected electron microscopy, EELS, atomically resolved EDS, Raman, XPS, etc.
  • New shapes and metals. Most of papers have dealt with Au, Ag, Cu, Pd and Pt. We welcome papers on metal nanoparticles which have been scarcely explored such as Bi, Pb and all transition metals. We also encourage the report of new shapes of nanoparticles.
  • Properties of nanoparticles: Especially related to applications in biomedicine and diagnosis methods. SERS applications are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Miguel Jose Yacaman
Guest Editor

Keywords

  • metal nanoparticles
  • aberration corrected microscopy
  • SERS applications
  • controlled synthesis
  • catalysis
  • shape of nanoparticles
  • nanotechnology

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Hardness and Elastic Modulus on Six-Fold Symmetry Gold Nanoparticles
by Manuel Ramos, Luis Ortiz-Jordan, Abel Hurtado-Macias, Sergio Flores, José T. Elizalde-Galindo, Carmen Rocha, Brenda Torres, Maryam Zarei-Chaleshtori and Russell R. Chianelli
Materials 2013, 6(1), 198-205; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma6010198 - 14 Jan 2013
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The chemical synthesis of gold nanoparticles (NP) by using gold (III) chloride trihydrate (HAuCl∙3H2O) and sodium citrate as a reducing agent in aqueous conditions at 100 °C is presented here. Gold nanoparticles areformed by a galvanic replacement mechanism as described by [...] Read more.
The chemical synthesis of gold nanoparticles (NP) by using gold (III) chloride trihydrate (HAuCl∙3H2O) and sodium citrate as a reducing agent in aqueous conditions at 100 °C is presented here. Gold nanoparticles areformed by a galvanic replacement mechanism as described by Lee and Messiel. Morphology of gold-NP was analyzed by way of high-resolution transmission electron microscopy; results indicate a six-fold icosahedral symmetry with an average size distribution of 22 nm. In order to understand the mechanical behaviors, like hardness and elastic moduli, gold-NP were subjected to nanoindentation measurements—obtaining a hardness value of 1.72 GPa and elastic modulus of 100 GPa in a 3–5 nm of displacement at the nanoparticle’s surface. Full article
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Morphological Effect of Pd Catalyst on Ethanol Electro-Oxidation Reaction
by Raúl Carrera Cerritos, Minerva Guerra-Balcázar, Rosalba Fuentes Ramírez, Janet Ledesma-García and Luis Gerardo Arriaga
Materials 2012, 5(9), 1686-1697; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma5091686 - 19 Sep 2012
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In the present study, three different structures with preferentially exposed crystal faces were supported on commercial carbon black by the polyol method (nanoparticles (NP/C), nanobars (NB/C) and nanorods (NR/C)). The electrocatalysts were characterized by XRD, TEM, TGA and cyclic voltammetry at three different [...] Read more.
In the present study, three different structures with preferentially exposed crystal faces were supported on commercial carbon black by the polyol method (nanoparticles (NP/C), nanobars (NB/C) and nanorods (NR/C)). The electrocatalysts were characterized by XRD, TEM, TGA and cyclic voltammetry at three different ethanol concentrations. Considerable differences were found in terms of catalytic electroactivity. At all ethanol concentrations, the trend observed for the ethanol oxidation peak potential was preserved as follows: NB/C < NP/C< NR/C < commercial Pd/C. This result indicates that, from a thermodynamics point of view, the NB/C catalyst enclosed by Pd(100) facets presented the highest activity with respect to ethanol electro-oxidation among all of the catalysts studied. Full article
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