A one-pot route to stable Pickering emulsions featuring nanocrystalline Ag and Au.

A simple, one-pot reaction scheme leading to water-in-toluene and toluene-in-water type Pickering emulsions solely stabilized by nanocrystals of Ag and Au is described. Sol properties-ageing and ability to disperse substances are studied. The nature of the solid surfactants and their surface structure is ascertained by transmission electron microscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Deposition of Ag and Ag-Au nanocrystalline films with tunable conductivity at the water-toluene interface.

Thin films of Au, Ag and Ag-Au alloy nanocrystals extending to areas of several square centimetres are obtained by deposition at the interface of water and toluene. Toluene containing chlorotris(triphenylphosphine)silver(i) and/or chlorotriphenylphosphine gold(i) is reacted with aqueous tetrakishydroxymethylphosphonium chloride to obtain nanocrystalline films adhered to the interfacial region. Alloying was induced by varying the composition of the toluene layer.

Characteristics of nanocrystalline thin films of cadmium sulphide deposited at the water-oil interface.

Thin films of nanocrystalline CdS were obtained at the water-toluene interface by reacting cadmium diethyldithiocarbamate in toluene with aq. NaS. Three parameters unique to the topical deposition scheme: the effect of column heights, stirring and the action of molecular surfactants are systematically investigated.

Extended hydrodynamic approach to quantum-classical nonequilibrium evolution. II. Application to nonpolar solvation.

The mixed quantum-classical formulation derived in our companion paper [D. Bousquet, K. H.