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ReviewACS nano2020

Toward Informed Design of Nanomaterials: A Mechanistic Analysis of Structure-Property-Function Relationships for Faceted Nanoscale Metal Oxides.

Holly E Rudel, Mary Kate M Lane, Christopher L Muhich, Julie B Zimmerman

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Review in ACS nano, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. (001)-Exposed mesoporous SnOMikrochimica acta · 2026
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  3. Tuning the anisotropic facet of CuChemical science · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Holly E RudelDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, 17 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3535-8697
Mary Kate M LaneDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, 17 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States.
Christopher L MuhichNanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States.
Julie B ZimmermanDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, 17 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5392-312X

Funding

Spatial patterns of metals and metal mixtures in drinking waterP42ES030990 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI LU, QUAN · 2020 to 2024
$8.3M
NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES030990
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanoscale metal oxides (NMOs) have found wide-scale applicability in a variety of environmental fields, particularly catalysis, gas sensing, and sorption. Facet engineering, or controlled exposure of a particular crystal plane, has been established as an advantageous approach to enabling enhanced functionality of NMOs. However, the underlying mechanisms that give rise to this improved performance are often not systematically examined, leading to an insufficient understanding of NMO facet reactivity. This critical review details the unique electronic and structural characteristics of commonly studied NMO facets and further correlates these characteristics to the principal mechanisms that govern performance in various catalytic, gas sensing, and contaminant removal applications. General trends of facet-dependent behavior are established for each of the NMO compositions, and selected case studies for extensions of facet-dependent behavior, such as mixed metals, mixed-metal oxides, and mixed facets, are discussed. Key conclusions about facet reactivity, confounding variables that tend to obfuscate them, and opportunities to deepen structure-property-function understanding are detailed to encourage rational, informed design of NMOs for the intended application.

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catalysiscrystal facetfacet engineeringgas sensinginformed designnanoscale metal oxidessorptionstructure−property−function relationships

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PMID33237735
PMCPMC8144246

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