Metallic Nanostructures: From Controlled Synthesis to Applications

304 Pages·2015·25.825 MB·English

by  Yujie Xiong, Xianmao Lu (eds.)

Metallic Nanostructures
Yujie Xiong • Xianmao Lu
Editors
Metallic Nanostructures
From Controlled Synthesis to Applications
Editors
Yujie Xiong Xianmao Lu
Chemistry Chemical Engineering
University of Science and Technology National University of Singapore
of China Singapore
Anhui Singapore
China
ISBN 978-3-319-11303-6 ISBN 978-3-319-11304-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-11304-3
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Preface
Nanoscience is an intersection of chemistry, physics, materials science, biology,
electrical engineering, and many other disciplines to study matters at nanometer
scale. More specifically, this multidisciplinary field is focused on matters with at
least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nm. In parallel to quantum dots that were
invented earlier, metallic nanostructures have attracted tremendous attention from
the research community, and their research has become a fast-growing subfield of
the nanoscience. Metals possess a range of wonderful properties, leading to exten-
sive use in industrial applications including catalysis, electronics, photography, and
magnetic information storage. As the dimensions of metallic materials shrink down
to the nanoscale, they give birth to numerous new applications such as photonics,
imaging, and medicine. Undoubtedly, a majority of these promising applications
require the use of metals in a finely divided state, which not only brings about grand
challenges to materials synthesis, but creates opportunities for chemists to collabo-
rate with the scientists of various academic backgrounds.
The history of solution-phase synthesis—the most widely used approach to me-
tallic nanoparticles can be traced back to the 1850s when Michael Faraday invented
his now famous gold colloids. However, not until the recent decade had the con-
trollability over size, shape, structure, and composition of metallic nanostructures
reached the level usable for realistic applications. Now, the solution-phase methods
can offer the quality, quantity, and reproducibility suitable for shape-property rela-
tionship investigations, which significantly blossoms the research and implementa-
tions of metallic nanostructures. Nevertheless, the people having insufficient chem-
istry training still suffer from the difficulty of transferring literature knowledge to
bench work in wet labs. “Enabling anyone to make desired metal nanomaterials
in a wet lab” is thus one of the major motivations of writing this book. Needless
to say, understanding the designing rules for nanomaterials is also an obstacle to
the chemists working on materials synthesis. Leveraging example applications, this
book illustrates how to design a perfect metallic nanostructure for the application
which the readers are specifically interested in. We do hope, by bridging controlled
synthesis and applications, it will make it more clear how fascinating and versatile
metal nanomaterials are.
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This is the first book to address the fundamentals in the controlled synthesis
of metallic nanostructures toward fulfilling specific functions, and is intended for
the scientists and engineers making efforts in the fields related to nanotechnology.
Here we just name a few examples: materials science, chemistry, physics, electron-
ics, magnetic information storage, catalysis, biotechnology, optics, and photonics.
Although it is not specially designed for a university textbook, it does not bother
this book to become a reference for the college and graduate students studying
the courses related to nanotechnology and materials science. Specifically, Chap. 1
first gives an overview on the fundamentals in the field of metallic nanostructures.
Chapters 2 and 3 provide basic knowledge relative to metallic nanomaterial syn-
thesis and allow the readers to have a clear picture for making desired metallic
nanoproducts via direct synthesis or seeding growth. Chapters 4–9 illustrate the
structure-dependent properties of metallic nanostructures for interfacial molecular
interactions, biomedicine and sensing, electrocatalysis and catalysis, photonics and
electronics, and magnetic applications case by case. They fully demonstrate what
applications metallic nanomaterials can be implemented in, leading to the bright
future of this research. We do hope that this book coherently integrates synthesis
fundamentals with material functions and can unravel the puzzle that people fre-
quently encounter when designing metal nanostructures for various applications.
Overall, the objective of this book is to strengthen research in metallic nano-
structures by creating a coherent framework of fundamental understanding and case
study for various disciplinary nanoscience communities. It represents a further step
in the research of metal nanomaterials to achieve rational design materials. At the
same time, it constitutes an updated overview of the state-of-the-art and a roadmap,
reflecting frontier research trends in each subfield of metal nanomaterials.
University of Science and Technology of China Yujie Xiong
National University of Singapore Xianmao Lu
Contents
1 Metallic Nanostructures: Fundamentals ................................................. 1
Wenxin Niu and Xianmao Lu
2 Controlled Synthesis: Nucleation and Growth in Solution .................. 49
Pedro H. C. Camargo, Thenner S. Rodrigues,
Anderson G. M. da Silva and Jiale Wang
3 Bimetallic Nanocrystals: Growth Models and Controlled Synthesis .... 75
Zhenni Wang and Mingshang Jin
4 Interactions of Metallic Nanocrystals with Small Molecules ................. 107
Ran Long and Yujie Xiong
5 P lasmonic Nanostructures for Biomedical and Sensing
Applications ................................................................................................ 133
Samir V. Jenkins, Timothy J. Muldoon and Jingyi Chen
6 M agnetic-Metallic Nanostructures for Biological Applications ............. 175
Yanglong Hou, Jing Yu and Wenlong Yang
7 M etallic Nanostructures for Electrocatalysis .......................................... 205
Zhenmeng Peng
8 M etallic Nanostructures for Catalytic Applications ............................... 243
W. David Wei, Brendan C. Sweeny, Jingjing Qiu
and Joseph S. DuChene
9 M etallic Nanostructures for Electronics and Optoelectronics ............... 271
Shan Zhou and Yujie Xiong
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Contributors
Pedro H. C. Camargo Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de
Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Jingyi Chen Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, AR, USA
Joseph S. DuChene Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanostructured
Electronic Materials, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Yanglong Hou College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
Samir V. Jenkins Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
Mingshang Jin Center for Materials Chemistry, Frontier Institute of Science and
Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, China
Ran Long School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and
Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P. R. China
Xianmao Lu Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National
University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Timothy J. Muldoon Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
Wenxin Niu Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National
University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Zhenmeng Peng Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA
Jingjing Qiu Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanostructured Electronic
Materials, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Thenner S. Rodrigues Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de
Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Anderson G. M. da Silva Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de
Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Brendan C. Sweeny Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanostructured
Electronic Materials, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Jiale Wang Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de Química,
Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Zhenni Wang Center for Materials Chemistry, Frontier Institute of Science and
Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, China
W. David Wei Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanostructured Electronic
Materials, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Yujie Xiong School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science
and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P. R. China
Wenlong Yang College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
Jing Yu College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
Shan Zhou School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and
Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P. R. China
Editors Biography
Yujie Xiong received his B.S. in chemical physics in 2000 and Ph.D. in inorganic
chemistry in 2004 (with Professor Yi Xie), both from the University of Science and
Technology of China (USTC). After four-year training with Professors Younan Xia
and John A. Rogers, he joined the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
(NSF-NNIN) at Washington University in St. Louis as the Principal Scientist and
Lab Manager. Starting from 2011, he is a Professor of Chemistry at the USTC.
He has published 88 papers with over 8,000 citation (H-index 46). His research
interests include synthesis, fabrication and assembly of inorganic materials for
energy and environmental applications.
Xianmao Lu is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering at National University of Singapore (NUS). Before he
joined NUS, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Washington
and Washington University. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from
the University of Texas at Austin, where he started his research in nanomaterials.
His current research interest is mainly on shape-selective growth of noble metal
nanocrystals and understanding of their fundamental properties.
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