Ultrathin Gold Nanowires and Nanorods

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moving to the University of Tokyo in 2011. His research interest is focused on size-selected synthesis and gas-phase characterization of atomically-precise metal clusters and their catalytic application. Ryo Takahata got his PhD degree in 2018 from the University of Tokyo on the control synthesis and characterization of ultrathin gold nanorods under the supervision of Prof. Tsukuda. In 2018, he joined the research group of Prof. Toshiharu Teranishi at Institute of Chemical Research, Kyoto University as a postdoctral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. His current research interests are precise synthesis of nanostructured materials and elucidation of their optical properties.

Controlled colloidal metal nanoparticles and nanoclusters: recent applications as cocatalysts for improving photocatalytic water-splitting activity

“…3 Since the 1980s, the research on metal colloids has progressed substantially and the expression "metal NPs" has been coined. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] In the last two decades, research on metal NPs has increased explosively, and the techniques to synthesize metal NPs have advanced dramatically. In recent years, it has become possible to control not only the size of metal NPs but also their geometrical structure.…”

Nanoarchitectonics for Hierarchical Fullerene Nanomaterials

“…Accordingly, nanoscale materials sciences have been paid much attention. Nanoscale materials in various dimensions such as quantum dots [ 31 , 32 , 33 ], nanoparticles [ 34 , 35 , 36 ], nanocrystals [ 37 , 38 , 39 ], nanotubes [ 40 , 41 , 42 ], nanorods/nanowires [ 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 ], nanosheets [ 46 , 47 , 48 ], graphene [ 49 , 50 , 51 ], and other two-dimensional materials [ 52 , 53 , 54 ] have been extensively investigated. Similarly, materials with internal nanostructures including mesoporous materials [ 55 , 56 , 57 ], zeolites [ 58 , 59 , 60 ], metal–organic frameworks [ 61 , 62 , 63 ], other coordination polymers [ 64 , 65 , 66 ], and covalent organic frameworks [ 67 , 68 , 69 ] have been actively explored.…”

Fabrication of Polymer Composite Fibers Embedding Ultra-Long Micro/Nanowires

“…Ultra-long micro/nanowires are also used to design and integrate large-area, flexible, and high-density device components, such as high-performance semiconductors on flexible polymers [ 7 ], implantable or wearable chemical and biological sensing [ 8 ], large-area photodetectors, optical phased array, and micro/nano fluidics channels, because they could benefit overall integration by facilitating interconnection of nano-electronic device arrays to large scale input/output wires in a system [ 9 ]. Note that, among the involved applications, the size and morphology of micro/nano structures have a significant impact on the characteristics of the resulting materials or functional devices [ 10 , 11 , 12 ].…”