ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Kinetic Pathways to Control Nanocrystal Shapes
The shape of nanocrystals is crucial in determining surface area, reactivity, optical properties, mechanical strength, and self-assembly behavior. The current theory on shape formation is based on thermodynamic equilibrium and predicts that each crystal structure should enforce a unique shape, with few morphological variations depending on solution chemistry. Whereas this theory succeeded in explaining crystal habits in mineralogy, it mispredicts many nanocrystals, pointing out the necessity of a non-equilibrium description of shapes. Critical to this project are robust and scalable simulation techniques that capture kinetic effects of ligands and ions in solution at the atomic/molecular…
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