Energy devices require materials able to transport mass, charge and energy during operation. Such a complexity of functions is hard to meet by single component materials. Therefore, the demand for hybrid multifunctional materials has been increasing in different applications. Our group is assembling colloidal nanocrystals with building blocks of different classes of materials, such as polymers, metal organic frameworks, fully inorganic oxide matrices. The goal here is to establish novel synthetic schemes to achieve an exquisite control and tunability of these hybrids across multiple length-scales by understanding and manipulating the nucleation and growth kinetics. Our current focus is to build material platforms to advance studies in the conversion of water and CO2 into value added chemicals. In this talk, I will focus on the role of ligands and surface chemistry in the synthesis of different hybrid architectures including copper nanocrystals. I will present some of our most recent solid-state NMR data and in-situ X-Ray diffraction studies. The latter allows to get insights into the kinetics behind chemical trasformations at the nanoscale.

Hybrid materials based on colloidal nanocrystals: From synthesis to emerging properties for energy storage in chemical bonds

256th National Meeting (2018)

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