In recent decades, the industrial use of nanoparticles (NPs) and, especially, metal nanoparticles (MNPs), has attracted widespread attention because of their special physicochemical properties. The ability of MNPs to self-arrange into ordered, nanometrically sized structures and form nanometric colloids has enabled their use as nanocatalysts the properties of which can be tailored through ordered growth of their crystal structures. In fact, these nanocatalysts provide a unique opportunity to tune material properties at the nanometric scale. Thus, altering the size or shape of the nanoparticles allows materials of identical composition but different properties to be obtained. The versatility of MNPs (and, especially, those containing the transition metals copper, nickel and palladium) led us to review their synthetic procedures, most salient physicochemical properties, and existing and potential applications (chemical sensing and plasmon resonance included).

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过渡金属纳米粒子的合成，表征及潜在应用

近几十年来，由于其特殊的物理化学性质，纳米颗粒（NPs），尤其是金属纳米颗粒（MNPs）的工业应用引起了广泛的关注。MNP自我排列成有序的，纳米尺寸的结构并形成纳米胶体的能力使其能够用作纳米催化剂，其性质可通过其晶体结构的有序生长来定制。实际上，这些纳米催化剂提供了在纳米尺度上调节材料性能的独特机会。因此，改变纳米颗粒的尺寸或形状允许获得具有相同组成但具有不同性质的材料。MNP（尤其是含有过渡金属铜，镍和钯的MNP）的多功能性促使我们回顾了它们的合成程序，