Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Nanoscale cooperative adsorption for materials control

  • Rong Ye,
  • Ming Zhao,
  • Xianwen Mao,
  • Zhaohong Wang,
  • Diego A. Garzón,
  • Heting Pu,
  • Zhiheng Zhao,
  • Peng Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24590-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Adsorption is a fundamentally important process but challenging to quantify, especially at the nanoscale. Here, the authors map the adsorption affinity and cooperativity of various ligands on single gold nanoparticles and discover adsorption crossover behaviors between different facets, leading to a strategy to control particle shape.