Growth of Tetrahexahedral Gold Nanocrystals with High-Index Facets

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• 作者：Tian Ming ; Wei Feng ; Qin Tang ; Feng Wang ; Lingdong Sun ; Jianfang Wang ; Chunhua Yan
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：November 18, 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：131
• 期：45
• 页码：16350-16351
• 全文大小：169K
• 年卷期：v.131,no.45(November 18, 2009)
• ISSN：1520-5126

文摘

Elongated tetrahexahedral Au nanocrystals have been grown in high yields using a seed-mediated growth method. Morphological and structural characterizations show that these Au nanocrystals are single-crystalline and enclosed by 24 high-index {037} facets. They are more electrochemically active than octahedral Au nanocrystals that are enclosed by 8 low-index {111} facets. To date, there have been only a few reports of metal nanocrystals that are enclosed exclusively by high-index facets, including trisoctahedral Au nanocrystals enclosed by 24 {122} facets and tetrahexahedral Pt nanocrystals enclosed by 24 {037} facets. Our tetrahexahedral Au nanocrystals will be an important addition to the family of metal nanocrystals that are enclosed exclusively by high-index facets and will also be useful for fundamental catalytic studies on metal nanocrystals.