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35. Li, Y.; Liu, J. H.-C.; Witham, C. A.; Huang, W.; Marcus, M. A.; Fakra, S. C.; Alayoglu, P.; Zhu, Z.; Thompson, C. M.; Arjun, A.; Lee, K.; Gross, E.; Toste, F. D.; Somorjai, G. A. "A Pt-Cluster-Based Heterogeneous Catalyst for Homogeneous Catalytic Reactions: X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Reaction Kinetic Studies of Their Activity and Stability against Leaching" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 13527.
34. Borodko, Y.; Thompson, C. M.; Huang, W.Y.; Yildiz, H. B.; Frei, H.; Somorjai, G. A. "Spectroscopic Study of Platinum and Rhodium Dendrimer (PAMAM G4OH) Compounds: Structure and Stability" J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 4757.
33. Yamada, Y.; Tsung, C.-K.; Huang, W.Y.; Huo, Z.Y.; Habas, S.E.; Soejima, T.; Aliaga, C.E; Somorjai, G.A.; Yang, P.D. “Nanocrystal Bilayer for Tandem Catalysis” Nature Chemistry, 2011, 3, 372–376.
32. Renzas, J.R.; Huang, W.Y.; Zhang, Y.W.; Grass, M.E.; Hoang, D.; Alayoglu, S.; Butcher, D.R.; Tao, F.; Liu, Z.; Somorjai, G.A. “Rh1-xPdx Nanoparticle Composition Dependence in CO Oxidation by Oxygen, Activity Enhancement of Bimetallic System” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, 13, 2556-2562.
31. Renzas, J.R.; Huang, W.Y.; Zhang, Y.W.; Grass, M.E.; Somorjai, G.A. “Rh1-xPdx Nanoparticle Composition Dependence in CO Oxidation by NO”. Catal. Lett., 2011, 141, 2, 235-241.
30. Borodko, Y.; Thompson, C. M.; Huang, W.Y.; Yildiz, H. B.; Frei, H.; Somorjai, G. A. “Spectroscopic Study of Platinum and Rhodium Dendrimer (PAMAM G4OH) Compounds: Structure and Stability” J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115 (11), 4757-4767.
29. Huang, W.Y.; Liu, J.; Alayoglu P.; Li, Y.M.; Witham, C.A.; Tsung, C.-K.; Toste, F.D.; Somorjai, G.A. “Highly Active Heterogeneous Palladium Nanoparticle Catalysts for Homogeneous Electrophilic Reactions in Solution and the Utilization of a Continuous Flow Reactor” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 16771-16773.
28. Hung, L.I.; Tsung, C.K.; Huang, W.Y.; Yang, P.D. “Room-Temperature Formation of Hollow Cu2O Nanoparticles”. Advanced Materials, 2010, 22(17), 1910-1914.
27. Zhang, Y.W.; Grass, M.E.; Huang, W.Y.; Somorjai, G.A. “Seedless Polyol Synthesis and CO Oxidation Activity of Monodisperse (111)- and (100)-Oriented Rhodium Nanocrystals in Sub-10 nm Sizes” Langmuir, 2010, 26(21), 16463–16468.
26 Kliewer, C.J.; Aliaga, C.; Bieri, M.; Huang, W.Y.; Tsung, C.-K.; Wood, J.B.; Komvopoulos, K.; Somorjai, G.A. “Furan Hydrogenation over Pt(111) and Pt(100) Single-Crystal Surfaces and Pt Nanoparticles from 1 to 7 nm: A Kinetic and Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Study” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132, 13088-13095.
25. Joo, S.H.; Park, J.Y.; Renzas, J.R.; Butcher, D.R.; Huang, W.Y.; Somorjai, G.A. “Size Effect of Ruthenium Nanoparticles in Catalytic Carbon Monoxide Oxidation” Nano Lett., 2010, 10 (7), 2709-2713.
24. Witham, C.A.; Huang, W.Y.; Tsung, C.-K.; Kuhn, J.N.; Somorjai, G.A.; Toste, F.D. “Converting homogeneous to heterogeneous electrophilic catalysis using monodisperse metal nanoparticles”. Nature Chemistry, 2009, 2, 36-41.
23. Kuhn, J.N.; Tsung, C.-K.; Huang, W.Y.; Somorjai, G.A. “Effect of organic capping layers over monodisperse platinum nanoparticles upon activity for ethylene hydrogenation and carbon monoxide oxidation”. J. Catal., 2009, 265, 209.
22. Tsung, C.-K.; Kuhn, J.N; Huang, W.Y.; Hung L.-I.; Somorjai, G.A.; Yang. P.D. “Sub-10 nm platinum nanocrystals with size and shape control: catalytic study for ethylene and pyrrole hydrogenation”. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 5816-5822.
21. Huo, Z.Y.; Tsung, C.-K.; Huang, W.Y.; Zhang, X.F.; Yang, P.D. “Self-organized ultrathin oxide nanocrystals”. Nano Lett., 2009, 9, 1260.
20. Renzas, J.R.; Zhang, Y.W.; Huang, W.Y.; Somorjai, G.A. “Rhodium Nanoparticle Shape Dependence in the Reduction of NO by CO” Catal. Lett., 2009, 132 (3-4), 317–322.
19. Huang, W.Y.; Kuhn, J.N.; Tsung, C.-K.; Zhang, Y.W.; Habas, H.E.; Yang, P.D.; Somorjai, G.A. “Dendrimer Templated Synthesis of One Nanometer Rh and Pt Particles Supported on Mesoporous Silica: Catalytic Activity for Ethylene and Pyrrole Hydrogenation” Nano Lett., 2008, 8 (7), 2027–2034.
18. Huang, W.Y.; Qian, W.; El-Sayed, M.A. “Gigahertz Optical Modulation Resulting from Coherent Lattice Oscillations Induced by Femtosecond Laser Pumping of 2D Photonic Crystals of Gold Capped Polystyrene Micro-spheres” Adv. Mater., 2008, 20, 733-737.
17. Kuhn, J.N.; Huang, W.Y.; Tsung, C.-K.; Zhang, Y.W.; Somorjai, G.A. “Structure Sensitivity of Carbon−Nitrogen Ring Opening: Impact of Platinum Particle Size from below 1 to 5 nm upon Pyrrole Hydrogenation Product Selectivity over Monodisperse Platinum Nanoparticles Loaded onto Mesoporous Silica” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130 (43), 14026–14027.
16. Zhang, Y.W.; Huang, W.Y.; Habas, H.E.; Kuhn, J.N.; Grass, M.E.; Yamada, Y.; Yang, P.D.; Somorjai, G.A. “Near-Monodisperse Ni−Cu Bimetallic Nanocrystals of Variable Composition: Controlled Synthesis and Catalytic Activity for H2 Generation” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112 (32), 12092–12095.
15. Huo, Z.Y.; Tsung, C.-K.; Huang, W.Y.; Zhang, X.F.; Yang, P.D. “Sub-two nanometer single crystal Au nanowires” Nano Lett., 2008, 8 (7), 2041–2044.
14. Zhang, T.F.; Park, J.Y.; Huang, W.Y.; Somorjai, G.A. “Influence of reaction with XeF2 on surface adhesion of Al and Al2O3 surfaces” Appl. Phys. Lett., 2008, 93(14), 141905.
13. Zhang, Y.W.; Grass, M.E.; Kuhn, J.N.; Tao, F.; Habas, S.E.; Huang, W.Y.; Yang, P.D.; Somorjai, G.A. “Highly Selective Synthesis of Catalytically Active Monodisperse Rhodium Nanocubes” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 5868-5869.
12. Burgin, J.; Langot, P.; Del Fatti, N.; Vallee, F.; Huang, W.Y.; El-Sayed, M.A. “Time-resolved investigation of the acoustic vibration of a single gold nanoprism pair” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112, 11231-11235.
11. Huang, W.Y.; El-Sayed, M.A. “Photothermally excited coherent lattice phonon oscillations in plasmonic nanoparticles” European Physical Journal-Special Topics, 2008, 153, 325-333.
10. Huang, W.Y.; El-Sayed, M.A. “Pulsed laser photothermal annealing and ablation of plasmonic nanoparticles” European Physical Journal-Special Topics, 2008, 153, 223-230.
9. Huang, W.Y.; Qian, W.; Jain, P.K.; El-Sayed, M.A. “The Effect of Plasmon Field on the Coherent Lattice Phonon Oscillation in Electron-Beam Fabricated Gold Nanoparticle Pairs” Nano Lett., 2007, 7 (10), 3227-3234.
8. Huang, W.Y.; Qian, W.; El-Sayed, M.A.; Ding, Y.; Wang, Z.L. “Effect of the Lattice Crystallinity on the Electron-Phonon Relaxation Rates in Gold Nanoparticles” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2007, 111, 10751-10757.
7. Jain, P. K.; Huang, W.Y.; El-Sayed, M.A. “On the Universal Scaling Behavior of the Distance Decay of Plasmon Coupling in Metal Nanoparticle Pairs: A Plasmon Ruler Equation” Nano Lett., 2007, 7 (7), 2080-2088.
6. Huang, W.Y.; Qian, W.; El-Sayed, M.A. “Gold Nanoparticles Propulsion from Surface Fueled by Absorption of Femtosecond Laser Pulse at Their Surface Plasmon Resonance” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128 (41), 13330-13331.
5. Huang, W.Y.; Qian, W.; El-Sayed, M.A. “The Optically Detected Coherent Lattice Oscillations in Silver and Gold Monolayer Periodic Nanoprism Arrays: The Effect of Interparticle Coupling” J. Phys. Chem. B, 2005, 109, 18881-18888.
4. Huang, W.Y.; Qian, W.; El-Sayed, M.A. “Photothermal reshaping of prismatic Au nanoparticles in periodic monolayer arrays by femtosecond laser pulses” J. App. Phys., 2005, 98, 114301.
3. Huang, W.Y.; Qian, W.; El-Sayed, M.A. “Coherent Vibrational Oscillation in Gold Prismatic Monolayer Periodic Nanoparticle Arrays,” Nano Lett., 2004, 4, 1741-1747.
2. Wang, Y.; Huang W.Y.; Chun Y.; Xia J.R.; Zhu J.H. “Dispersion of potassium nitrate and the resulting strong basicity on zirconia,” Chem. Mater., 2001, 13(2), 670-677.
1. Wang, Y.; Zhu, J.H.; Huang, W.Y.; “Synthesis and characterization of potassium-modified alumina superbases,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2001, 3(12), 2537-2543.
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