Coinage metals, such as Au, Ag, and Cu, have been important materials throughout
history.(1) Although in ancient cultures they were admired primarily for their ability to reflect …

Solution processable flexible transparent electrodes (FTEs) are urgently needed to boost the
efficiency and mechanical stability of flexible organic solar cells (OSCs) on a large scale …

One-dimensional metal nanowires, with novel functionalities like electrical conductivity,
optical transparency and high mechanical stiffness, have attracted widespread interest for …

Nanoscience provides many strategies to construct high-performance materials and
devices, including solar cells, thermoelectrics, sensors, transistors, and transparent …

Gold-based catalysts have attracted intense interest in recent years following the discovery
[1] that small supported Au nanoparticles (NPs) can be effective catalysts for CO oxidation at …

Metal nanostructures, such as nanoparticles and nanowires, have been proposed as
building blocks for several applications in nanofabrication and nanoelectronics. However …

Nanotechnology provides the ability to engineer the properties of materials by controlling
their size and shape. Among the most interesting nanostructures are anisotropic noble metal …

This paper reports the quantitative measurement of a full spectrum of mechanical properties
of fivefold twinned silver (Ag) nanowires (NWs), including Young's modulus, yield strength …

Shape‐controlled catalysis: High‐quality Pt–Cu nanocubes with an average size of about 8
nm (see picture, scale bar= 20 nm) were synthesized from a high‐temperature organic …

Metal nanowires (NWs) have become the most promising candidates for the next generation
of flexible transparent conductive electrodes (FTCEs), with high transmittance and low sheet …