• Formation of hollow gold nanocrystals by nanosecond laser irradiation 

    González-Rubio, Guillermo; Milagres de Oliveira, Thais; Albrecht, Wiebke; Díaz-Núñez, Pablo; Castro-Palacio, Juan C.; Prada, Alejandro; González, Rafael I.; Scarabelli, Leonardo; Bañares, Luis; Rivera, Antonio; Liz-Marzán, Luis M.; Peña-Rodríguez, Ovidio; Bals, Sara; Guerrero-Martínez, Andrés (2020)
    The irradiation of spherical gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with nanosecond laser pulses induces shape transformations yielding nanocrystals with an inner cavity. The concentration of the stabilizing surfactant, the use of ...

  • Nanoporous amorphous carbon with exceptional ultra-high strength 

    Castillo-Castro, Daniel; Correa, Felipe; Aparicio, Emiliano; Amigo, Nicolás; Prada, Alejandro; Figueroa, Juan; González, Rafael I.; Bringa, Eduardo; Valencia, F. (2023)
    Nanoporous materials show a promising combination of mechanical properties in terms of their relative density; while there are numerous studies based on metallic nanoporous materials, here we focus on amorphous carbon with ...