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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2022

Copper Phosphonate Lamella Intermediates Control the Shape of Colloidal Copper Nanocrystals.

James R Pankhurst, Laia Castilla-Amorós, Dragos C Stoian, Jan Vavra, Valeria Mantella, Petru P Albertini, Raffaella Buonsanti

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

James R PankhurstLaboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy (LNCE), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Rue de l'Industrie 17, Sion 1950, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1410-1980
Laia Castilla-AmorósLaboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy (LNCE), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Rue de l'Industrie 17, Sion 1950, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6212-0663
Dragos C StoianThe Swiss-Norwegian Beamlines, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble 38000, France.ORCID 0000-0002-2436-6483
Jan VavraLaboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy (LNCE), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Rue de l'Industrie 17, Sion 1950, Switzerland.
Valeria MantellaLaboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy (LNCE), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Rue de l'Industrie 17, Sion 1950, Switzerland.
Petru P AlbertiniLaboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy (LNCE), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Rue de l'Industrie 17, Sion 1950, Switzerland.
Raffaella BuonsantiLaboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy (LNCE), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Rue de l'Industrie 17, Sion 1950, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-6592-1869
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CHEuropean Synchrotron Radiation Facility · FR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the structure and behavior of intermediates in chemical reactions is the key to developing greater control over the reaction outcome. This principle is particularly important in the synthesis of metal nanocrystals (NCs), where the reduction, nucleation, and growth of the reaction intermediates will determine the final size and shape of the product. The shape of metal NCs plays a major role in determining their catalytic, photochemical, and electronic properties and, thus, the potential applications of the material. In this work, we demonstrate that layered coordination polymers, called lamellae, are reaction intermediates in Cu NC synthesis. Importantly, we discover that the lamella structure can be fine-tuned using organic ligands of different lengths and that these structural changes control the shape of the final NC. Specifically, we show that short-chain phosphonate ligands generate lamellae that are stable enough at the reaction temperature to facilitate the growth of Cu nuclei into anisotropic Cu NCs, being primarily triangular plates. In contrast, lamellae formed from long-chain ligands lose their structure and form spherical Cu NCs. The synthetic approach presented here provides a versatile tool for the future development of metal NCs, including other anisotropic structures.

Indexed as

Metal NanoparticlesOrganophosphonatesCatalysisCopperLigandsCopperLigandsOrganophosphonates

Identifiers

PMID35770916
PMCPMC9284559
OpenAlexW4283717600

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