Specific ion effects directed noble metal aerogels
(PHYSorg.com Chemistry)

Noble metal foams (NMFs) are a new class of functional materials that contain both noble metals and monolithic porous materials for impressive multi prospects in materials science and multidisciplinary fields. In a recent study now published on Science Advances, Ran Du and a team of interdisciplinary researchers in Physical Chemistry, Materials Engineering and Physics developed highly tunable NMFs by activating specific ion effects to produce a variety of single/alloy aerogels. The new materials contained adjustable composition-with gold (Au), silver (Ag), palladium (Pd) and platinum (Pt)-and special morphologies.