Recently, Professor Feng Bai published an invited review titled by “Pressure Induced Nanoparticle Phase Behavior, Property, and Applications” in top chemical journal of Chem. Rev. 2019,119, 7673-7717.

https://pubs.acs.org /doi/pdf/10.1021/ acs.chemrev.9b00023

Nanoparticle (NP) high pressure behavior has been extensively studied over the years. In this review, we summarize recent progress on the studies of pressure induced NP phase behavior, property, and applications. This review starts with a brief overview of high pressure characterization techniques, coupled with synchrotron X-ray scattering, Raman, fluorescence, and absorption. Then, we survey the pressure induced phase transition of NP atomic crystal structure including size dependent phase transition, amorphization, and threshold pressures using several typical NP material systems as examples. Next, we discuss the pressure induced phase transition of NP mesoscale structures including topics on pressure induced interparticle separation distance, NP coupling, and NP coalescence. Pressure induced new properties and applications in different NP systems are highlighted. Finally, outlooks with future directions are discussed.

Figure, Pressure Induced Nanoparticle Phase Behavior

Chemical Reviews is the top review journal of American Chemical Society and one of the most authoritative academic journals in chemistry. Its latest influence factor is 54.3. Prof. Feng Bai (key laboratory of special functional materials) is the first and responding author for this paper, and Prof. Zhongwu Wang (Cornell University) and Prof. Hongyou Fan (Sandia National Laboratories) are the corresponding authors. It is the first time for Henan university to publish a paper in this journal as the first unit.