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Quantifying the Solution Structure of Metal Nanoclusters Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

Francesco Stellacci, Stefan Guldin, Ye Yang, Zhi Luo, Huayan Yang

Metal nanoclusters are a unique class of synthetic material, as their crystal structures can be resolved using X-ray diffraction, and their chemical formula can be precisely determinated from mass spectroscopy. However, a complete structure characterizatio ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

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Accurate nanoparticle size determination is essential across various research domains, with many functionalities in nanoscience and biomedical research being size-dependent. Although electron microscopy is capable of resolving a single particle down to the ...

2020

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Reproducibility of results is essential for a well-designed and conducted experiment. Several reasons may originate failure in reproducing data, such as selective reporting, low statistical power, or poor analysis. In this study, we used PEG6000 samples fr ...

2020

Quantification of surface composition and segregation on AuAg bimetallic nanoparticles by MALDI MS

Francesco Stellacci, Zhi Luo, Suiyang Liao

In this work we show that it is possible to use MALDI-TOF as a tool to quantify the atomic composition and to describe the phase segragation of the surface of ligand-coated, bimetallic AuAg nanoparticles. Our investigation shows that AuAg nanoparticles of ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Synthesis and Characterization of Amphiphilic Gold Nanoparticles

Francesco Stellacci, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Matteo Gasbarri, Zhi Luo, Zekiye Pelin Güven, Urszula Beata Cendrowska, Samuel Thomas Jones

Gold nanoparticles covered with a mixture of 1-octanethiol (OT) and 11-mercapto-1-undecane sulfonic acid (MUS) have been extensively studied because of their interactions with cell membranes, lipid bilayers, and viruses. The hydrophilic ligands make these ...

JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS2019

Multidimensional Characterization of Mixed Ligand Nanoparticles Using Small Angle Neutron Scattering

Francesco Stellacci, Stefan Guldin, Ye Yang, Zhi Luo

The properties of ligand protected gold nanoparticles are determined by the synergistic interplay of their structural components, including the metal core, the ligand shell, and the solvation layer. However, the simultaneous characterization of all these c ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

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The interface between water and folded proteins is very complex. Proteins have "patchy" solvent-accessible areas composed of domains of varying hydrophobicity. The textbook understanding is that these domains contribute additively to interfacial properties ...

PNAS2019

The complex organizations of amino acid residues on protein surfaces give rise to a wide space of functions for proteins. Great efforts are devoted in biology to understand such structure-property relationships. Many advanced characterization techniques ha ...

EPFL2018

Mass spectrometry and Monte Carlo method mapping of nanoparticle ligand shell morphology

Francesco Stellacci, Zhi Luo, Yanfei Zhao, Jing Hou, Yue Wang

Janus, patchy, stripe-like, or random arrangements of molecules within the ligand shell of nanoparticles affect many properties. Among all existing ligand shell morphology characterization methods, the one based on mass spectroscopy is arguably the simples ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2018

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Gold nanoparticles owe a large number of their properties to their ligand shell. Indeed, many researchers routinely use mixtures of ligand molecules for their nanoparticles to impart complex property sets. It has been shown that the morphology of ligand sh ...

American Chemical Society2017