Grain boundaries impact the oxidation of CO on Cu nanoparticle model catalysts!

Check out the work by Sara Nilsson et al. on how grain boundary abundance impacts a catalytic reaction. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c06282

This work was a wonderful collaboration with Prof. Giannis Mpourmpakis and John N. El Berch at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, United States.

Plasmonic hydrogen sensors with ppb limit of detection!

Read our latest work on plasmonic hydrogen sensors published in Nature Communications on the topic of pushing the limit of detection to the parts per billion range by inverse design of Pd arrays that feature surface lattice resonances. The work is a collaboration with the groups of Prof. Jaime Gómes-Rivas at TU Eindhoven and Prof. Andrea Baldi at VU Amsterdam. Read the work here: . DOI:10.1038/s41467-022-33466-8

Two papers in ACS Nano about Single Particle Catalysis in Nanochannels and a Dual-Band Plasmonic Ruler With Sub-nm Resolution.

We proudly present our two recent articles in ACS Nano entitled “Time-Resolved Thickness and Shape-Change Quantification using a Dual-Band Nanoplasmonic Ruler with Sub-Nanometer Resolution” DOI:10.1021/acsnano.2c04948 and “Nanofluidic Trapping of Faceted Colloidal Nanocrystals for Parallel Single Particle Catalysis” DOI:10.1021/acsnano.2c06505

Article in Nature Methods

Check out our paper entitled “Label-free Nanofluidic Scattering Microscopy of Size and Mass of Single Diffusing Molecules and Nanoparticles”, which today was published in Nature Methods after almost five years of hard work! Congratulations Barbora Špačková et al.! DOI:10.1038/s41592-022-01491-6DOI:10.1038/s41592-022-01491-6

New paper on colloidal synthesis of PdAu alloy nanoparticles for hydrogen sensing

Find out more about our latest collaborative effort with the Moth-Poulsen Group at Chalmers about the colloidal synthesis of PdAu alloy nanoparticles in our latest paper in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces here.

Check out our latest work on hydrogen sorption kinetics and compensation effects in Nature Communications!

In this work, we demonstrate using single particle experiments that hydrogen sorption induces significant grain growth in polycrystalline Pd nanoparticles and that this grain growth constitutes the physical origin of the also observed compensation effect between kinetic parameters. Furthermore, the grain growth considerably slows sorption kinetics, which establishes grain engineering as a new parameter for the design of ultrafast hydrogen sensors. Read the paper at:  DOI:10.1038/s41467-021-25660-x.

3D-printed hydrogen sensors, anyone? Check out our latest work in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces!

The imminent large-scale implementation of hydrogen energy technologies requires efficient sensors for hydrogen safety and process monitoring. In our latest work on the topic, we present a teflon-based nanocomposite material that enables the 3D printing of optical hydrogen sensors. Read more here: DOI:10.1021/acsami.1c01968

Paper in ACS Catalysis!

The study “Shedding Light on CO Oxidation Surface Chemistry on Single Pt Catalyst Nanoparticles Inside a Nanofluidic Model Pore” by Albinsson et al. has been published in ACS Catalysis. Read the paper here.

Interested in nanofluidics and plasmonic biosensors? Read our article in ACS Sensors!

Read more about the benefits of combining single nanoparticle plasmonic sensing with nanofluidics in our new article by Špačková et al., which was just published in ACS Sensors. Link.