Metal nanoparticles have received considerable attention due to their unusual properties and promising applications in electronics, photonics and biochemical sensing and imaging. This review presents an introduction to the synthesis of metal nanoparticles, especially the gold nanoparticles in shape of rod. The growth mechanism of gold nanorods and optical properties of metallic nanoparticles is...

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Supported catalysts are widely used in industry and can be optimized by tuning the composition and interface of the metal nanoparticles and oxide supports. Rational design of metal-metal oxide interfaces in nanostructured catalysts is critical to achieve better reaction activities and selectivities. We introduce here a new class of nanocrystal tandem catalysts that have multiple metal-metal oxi...

Erratum In the original publication [1] the author name L. V. Pylychuk had a spelling error and one sentence under paragraph “Effect of Initial pH” consisted an error. Incorrect name: L. V. Pylypchuk Correct name: L. V. Pylychuk Wrong sentence: Additionally, based on the speciation diagram (Fig. 2) for the pH values 5.0 and 6.0 Cd2+, Cd(II) was predominant. Should have read: Additionally, based...

Increasingly, nanoscale phase coexistence and hidden broken symmetry states are being found in the vicinity of metal-insulator transitions (MIT), for example, in high temperature superconductors, heavy fermion and colossal magnetoresistive materials, but their importance and possible role in the MIT and related emergent behaviors is not understood. Despite their ubiquity, they are hard to study...

The aim of this study was to determine the possibility of using feathers of blue tit nestlings to assess the level of endogenous accumulation of lead. For this purpose we conducted an experiment with lead application to randomly chosen nestlings from eight randomly drawn broods. Five days after the exposure, feathers of lead-treated nestlings had significantly higher lead concentrations than co...

Engineering electronic structure of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials is of great importance to their potential applications. In comparison to numerous other approaches, such as strain and chemical functionization, alloying can continuously tune the band gaps in a wide energy range. Atomically thin 2D alloys have been prepared and studied recently due to their potential use in elec...