Department of Chemistry
Date of this Version
2010
Abstract
A new class of gold nanostructures, concave nanocubes, enclosed by 24 high-index {720} facets, have been prepared in a monodisperse fashion by a modified seed-mediated synthetic method. The Cl− counterion in the surfactant plays an essential role in controlling the concave morphology of the final product. The concave nanocubes exhibit higher chemical activities compared with low-index {111}-faceted octahedra.
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Comments
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society 132:40 (2010), pp. 14012–14014; doi: 10.1021/ja106394k Copyright © 2010 American Chemical Society. Used by permission.