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Raffaella Buonsanti
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Developing the Chemistry of Colloidal Cu Nanocrystals to Advance the CO2 Electrochemical Reduction
The ability to tailor make materials with atomic scale precision is crucial for understanding the sensitivities of their performance parameters and for achieving the design specification corresponding to optimal device operation. Herein, this topic is disc ...
SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2021Copper, my precious!
To produce chemicals and fuels from CO2 and water while storing excess energy from renewable resources will play a big role in sustainability. Three decades ago, we learned that copper possesses the unique ability to break the stable CO2 bonds and to form ...
NATURE PORTFOLIO2021Long-Range Exciton Diffusion in Two-Dimensional Assemblies of Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanocrystals
Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice
Forster resonant energy transfer (FRET)-mediated exciton diffusion through artificial nanoscale building block assemblies could be used as an optoelectronic design element to transport energy. However, so far, nanocrystal (NC) systems supported only diffus ...
AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020Optimizing the Atomic Layer Deposition of Alumina on Perovskite Nanocrystal Films by Using O-2 As a Molecular Probe
Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Seryio Saris, Sanduni Thiyaga Pathiraja Mudalige Dona, Valerie Anne Niemann
Encapsulation methods have shown to be effective in imparting improved stability to metal-halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs). Atomic layer deposition (ALD) of metal oxides is one of the promising approaches for such encapsulation, yet better control on t ...
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020Real-time Monitoring Reveals Dissolution/Redeposition Mechanism in Copper Nanocatalysts during the Initial Stages of the CO2 Reduction Reaction
Raffaella Buonsanti, Vasiliki Tileli, Dragos-Constantin Stoian, Tzu-Hsien Shen, Jan Vávra
Size, morphology, and surface sites of electrocatalysts have a major impact on their performance. Understanding how, when, and why these parameters change under operating conditions is of importance for designing stable, active, and selective catalysts. He ...
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020Colloidal Synthesis of Cu-M-S (M = V, Cr, Mn) Nanocrystals by Tuning the Copper Precursor Reactivity
Raffaella Buonsanti, Seyedehbehnaz Varandili, James Richard Pankhurst, Valeria Mantella
New ternary and higher order inorganic materials are needed for a large variety of applications, yet their synthesis still represents a chemistry challenge. Herein, we focus on the synthesis of Cu-M-S nanocrystals (where M = V, Cr, Mn) via a wet-chemistry ...
AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020Stability and Degradation Mechanisms of Copper-Based Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Raffaella Buonsanti, Jan Vávra
To date, copper is the only monometallic catalyst that can electrochemically reduce CO2 into high value and energy-dense products, such as hydrocarbons and alcohols. In recent years, great efforts have been directed towards understanding how its nanoscale ...
2020Ligand-mediated formation of Cu/metal oxide hybrid nanocrystals with tunable number of interfaces
Raffaella Buonsanti, Seyedehbehnaz Varandili, Dragos-Constantin Stoian, Jan Vávra, James Richard Pankhurst
Combining domains of different chemical nature within the same hybrid material through the formation of heterojunctions provides the opportunity to exploit the properties of each individual component within the same nano-object; furthermore, new synergisti ...
2020Exploring the Chemical Reactivity of Gallium Liquid Metal Nanoparticles in Galvanic Replacement
Raffaella Buonsanti, Seyedehbehnaz Varandili, Dragos-Constantin Stoian, James Richard Pankhurst, Laia Castilla Amorós
Micron/nanosized particles of liquid metals possess intriguing properties and are gaining popularity for applications in various research fields. Nevertheless, the knowledge of their chemistry is still very limited compared to that of other classes of mate ...
AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020Polymer Lamellae as Reaction Intermediates in the Formation of Copper Nanospheres as Evidenced by In Situ X-ray Studies
Raffaella Buonsanti, Dragos-Constantin Stoian, James Richard Pankhurst, Valeria Mantella, Chethana Janardhana Gadiyar, Michal Stanislaw Strach, Kilian Frank
The classical nucleation theory (CNT) is the most common theoretical framework used to explain particle formation. However, nucleation is a complex process with reaction pathways which are often not covered by the CNT. Herein, we study the formation mechan ...
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020