Abstract of "Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Nanoparticles: The Role of Shape, Size and Surface Chemistry" by Yue Hu, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2021 There are many …
Theranostics is the ability to diagnose with greater detail to disease properties and tailor specialized therapeutic regiments to a patient's unique case. Advancements in nanoparticle …
Abstract of “Monodisperse Nanoparticles for Catalysis” by Sally Fae Ho, Ph.D. Brown University, May 2014 Nanoparticles (NPs) with diameters in the sub-10 nm range have …
Monodisperse nanocrystals (NCs) currently attract intense research interests because of the novel properties induced by their size, shape, composition and structure. Recent advances in high …
Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is a valuable tool in medicine because it can non-invasively visualize changes in the body that accompany disease, often long before …
Using nanoparticles (NPs) as heterogeneous catalysts has attracted attention to catalyze chemical reactions under greener reaction conditions with renewable feedstocks. Palladium (Pd) has been essential …
My first research project was to understand the size effect of Au nanoparticles (NPs) for CO2 reduction. I prepared 4-, 6-, 8-, and 10-nm polycrystalline …
The search for efficient catalysts is essential in promoting sustainable chemistry that features greener reaction conditions, lower energy consumption, and higher reaction efficiency. Nanoparticles are …
Controlled synthesis of nanoparticles (NPs) is the key to developing highly efficient and stable catalysts for various reactions, including those involved in energy conversion systems, …
Monodisperse FePt NPs are synthetically controlled from chemically disordered face centered cubic (fcc) structure to ordered face centered tetragonal (fct) structure. The NP’s electrocatalytic efficiency …
Nanoparticles (NPs) in 1 to10 nm diameter range have been investigated extensively for their enhanced catalysis of myriad electrocatalytic reactions. Past studies have consistently indicated …
In the past two decades, the synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) has been intensively explored for both fundamental scientific research and industrial applications. Different from …
Solution phase synthesis and catalytic applications of Pt- and Au-based nanomaterials are discussed in the thesis. Pt is widely used as fuel cell catalysts. However, …
Rational design and controlled synthesis of metallic nanoparticles (NPs) is the key to developing highly efficient and stable catalysts for some new alternative energy conversion …
Finding efficient catalysts is vital to developing new chemical/energy conversion processes with lower emissions and lower consumption. Nanoparticles are excellent candidates to be catalysts with …
Surfactants-Mediated Method is adapted in the chemical synthesis of FePt nanoparticles. The size and structure of FePt nanoparticles can be simply tuned by controlling the …
Highly-efficient heterogeneous catalysts are essential for the development of a vast number of renewable energy technologies, such as fuel cells, metal–air batteries and water splitting. …
The primary objective of the research presented in this dissertation is the development and application of Spatial Frequency Heterodyne Imaging (SFHI), a novel x-ray imaging …