{"id":172779,"date":"2023-09-25T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-develop-nanomaterials-using-a-bottom-up-approach"},"modified":"2023-09-25T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T19:22:21","slug":"scientists-develop-nanomaterials-using-a-bottom-up-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/scientists-develop-nanomaterials-using-a-bottom-up-approach","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop nanomaterials using a bottom-up approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-nanomaterials-using-a-bottom-up-approach2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, both Germany, have successfully developed nanomaterials using a so-called bottom-up approach. As reported in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.3c05461\">ACS Nano<\/a>, they exploit the fact that crystals often grow in a specific direction during crystallization. These resulting nanostructures could be used in various technological applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur structures could be described as worm-like rods with decorations,\u201d explains Prof. Felix Schacher. \u201cEmbedded in these rods are <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/spherical+nanoparticles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">spherical nanoparticles<\/a>; in our case, this was silica. However, instead of silica, conductive nanoparticles or semiconductors could also be used\u2014or even mixtures, which can be selectively distributed in the nanocrystals using our method,\u201d he adds. Accordingly, the range of possible applications in science and technology is broad, spanning from information processing to catalysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primary focus of this work was to understand the preparation method as such,\u201d explains the chemist. To produce nanostructures, he elaborates, there are two different approaches: larger particles are ground down to nanometer size, or the structures are built up from smaller components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, both Germany, have successfully developed nanomaterials using a so-called bottom-up approach. As reported in the journal ACS Nano, they exploit the fact that crystals often grow in a specific direction during crystallization. These resulting nanostructures could be used in various technological applications. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}