Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Inflating hollow nanocrystals through a repeated Kirkendall cavitation process

  • He Tianou,
  • Weicong Wang,
  • Xiaolong Yang,
  • Zhenming Cao,
  • Qin Kuang,
  • Zhao Wang,
  • Zhiwei Shan,
  • Mingshang Jin,
  • Yadong Yin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01258-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Owing to their unique properties, hollow metal nanocrystals demonstrate greater catalytic promise than their solid counterparts. Here the authors produce hollow and inflated palladium nanocrystals with thin shells via a repeated Kirkendall cavitation process, and demonstrate their activity for formic acid oxidation.