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ReviewACS nanoscience Au2025

Using Electrochemistry to Benchmark, Understand, and Develop Noble Metal Nanoparticle Syntheses.

Gabriel C Halford, Sebastian Hertle, Harikrishnan N Nambiar, Michelle L Personick

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Review in ACS nanoscience Au, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Accessible Chemical Benchmarking of Nanoparticle Growth Using Oxidation-Reduction Potential Sensors.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Gabriel C HalfordDepartment of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6253-2086
Sebastian HertleDepartment of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5363-5128
Harikrishnan N NambiarDepartment of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9120-0001
Michelle L PersonickDepartment of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4747-9429

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The complex chemical nature of metal nanoparticle synthesis presents obstacles for the mechanistic understanding of nanoparticle growth and predictive synthesis design, despite significant progress in this area. Real-time characterization of the chemical processes that take place throughout nanoparticle growth will enable progress toward addressing outstanding challenges in metal nanoparticle synthesis, such as mitigating synthetic reproducibility issues, defining chemical mechanisms that direct nanoparticle growth, and designing synthetic conditions for previously unachievable combinations of nanoparticle shape and composition. In this Perspective, we present open-circuit potential (OCP) measurements as an in situ, real-time method for characterizing chemical changes during nanoparticle growth and discuss the method's strengths in comparison to and in combination with other characterization techniques. We propose the use of OCP measurements as benchmarks for troubleshooting irreproducibility and streamlining synthetic optimization. Finally, we explore possibilities for using the increased parameter space accessible by electrodeposition to accelerate the development of shape-selective nanoparticle syntheses.

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benchmarkingelectrochemistryelectrodepositionmetal nanoparticlesnanoparticle synthesisopen-circuit measurementshape control

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PMID40862073
PMCPMC12371588

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