Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Heterophase fcc-2H-fcc gold nanorods

  • Zhanxi Fan,
  • Michel Bosman,
  • Zhiqi Huang,
  • Ye Chen,
  • Chongyi Ling,
  • Lin Wu,
  • Yuriy A. Akimov,
  • Robert Laskowski,
  • Bo Chen,
  • Peter Ercius,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Xiaoying Qi,
  • Min Hao Goh,
  • Yiyao Ge,
  • Zhicheng Zhang,
  • Wenxin Niu,
  • Jinlan Wang,
  • Haimei Zheng,
  • Hua Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17068-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The crystal phase-based heterostructures of noble metal nanomaterials are of interest for various applications. Here, the authors report the wet-chemical synthesis of gold nanorods with a well-defined fcc-2H-fcc heterophase, which possess unique optical and catalytic properties.