Gold nanostars harvest light for photoelectrochemical reactions

Star-Shaped Nanoantenna

Working for the JCF – The Young Chemists’ Forum of the German Chemical Society
Members of the national board about the work and aims of the JCF and their personal motivations

Desirable Defects in Photocatalytic Nanoslices
More defects in hydroxide nanosheets make better carbon dioxide photoreduction catalysts

Guess the Chemist (47)
Can you guess the famous scientist from the description?

Behind the Science: Self-Heating Nanocrystal Syntheses
Dr. Claire Cobley, ChemNanoMat, talks to Professor Hong Yang about metal nanocrystals

LEDs Based on Perovskite Quantum Dots
Novel materials with high quantum yield and tunable emission wavelength

Controlling Copper Catalysts
Surfactants influence the structure and activity of copper oxide catalysts

Nanoscale Charge Separation
Semiconductor nanocrystals, chiral molecules, and polarized light make an electrical on-off switch

Controlling Gold Nanoparticle Growth
Monodisperse nanoparticle size determined by concentration and chain length of capping thiol molecules

Precious Nanocubes
Au-Ag core-shell nanocubes, cuboctahedra, and octahedra synthesized