TY - JOUR

T1 - Recent Advances in Functional Nanoparticle Assemblies

AU - Lübkemann-Warwas, Franziska

AU - Morales, Irene

AU - Bigall, Nadja C.

N1 - Funding Information: F.L.W. and I.M. contributed equally to this work. This work has received funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy within the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD (EXC 2122, Project ID 390833453). Furthermore, N.C.B. thanks the DFG (Research Grant BI 1708/4-1 and BI 1708/4-3) for funding. The authors thank the Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering (LNQE) of the Leibniz Universität Hannover for support. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.

PY - 2023/10/11

Y1 - 2023/10/11

N2 - Assemblies of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) into various functional superstructures, such as ordered or nonordered, microscopic or macroscopic, and templated or self-supported, have recently attracted a lot of research interest. The continuous development of colloidal nanoparticle synthesis enables a fine-tuning of the structure and properties of such functional superstructures leading to numerous new applications. Herein, it is aimed to summarize a variety of assemblies based on ordered self-assembled NPs, e.g., stacked nanoplatelets, and nonordered self-assembled NPs, e.g., nanoparticle-based aerogels and cryoaerogels, systems ranging from the microscopic to the macroscopic range. Depending on the materials of the nanoparticle building blocks used, e.g., metallic, magnetic, semiconducting, or their combination in hybrid systems, both ordered and nonordered assemblies yield interesting properties for a wide variety of applications, such as catalysis, photocatalysis, or sensing, which are highlighted and discussed.

AB - Assemblies of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) into various functional superstructures, such as ordered or nonordered, microscopic or macroscopic, and templated or self-supported, have recently attracted a lot of research interest. The continuous development of colloidal nanoparticle synthesis enables a fine-tuning of the structure and properties of such functional superstructures leading to numerous new applications. Herein, it is aimed to summarize a variety of assemblies based on ordered self-assembled NPs, e.g., stacked nanoplatelets, and nonordered self-assembled NPs, e.g., nanoparticle-based aerogels and cryoaerogels, systems ranging from the microscopic to the macroscopic range. Depending on the materials of the nanoparticle building blocks used, e.g., metallic, magnetic, semiconducting, or their combination in hybrid systems, both ordered and nonordered assemblies yield interesting properties for a wide variety of applications, such as catalysis, photocatalysis, or sensing, which are highlighted and discussed.

KW - aerogels

KW - nanocrystal building blocks

KW - nonordered assemblies

KW - ordered assemblies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85175981295&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1002/sstr.202300062

DO - 10.1002/sstr.202300062

M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:85175981295

VL - 4

JO - Small Structures

JF - Small Structures

IS - 10

M1 - 2300062

ER -