Interface-mediated growth of monodispersed nanostructures

This Account focuses on the recent development of interface-mediated growth of monodispersed nanostructures in our laboratory. By rationally tuning the chemical reactions at various gasliquid, solidsolid, liquidliquid, and liquidsolidsolution interfaces, we could readily synthesize nanostructures such as hollow microspheres, coreshell nanoparticles, and monodispersed nanocrystals. These advances in interface-mediated synthesis could lead to progress in the development of nanocrystal crystallography and encourage some more unique and exciting research and applications to nanoscience and nanotechnology.