Nanostructured catalysts for electrochemical water splitting: current state and prospects

X Li, X Hao, A Abudula, G Guan - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogen is an ideal candidate for the replacement of fossil fuels in the future due to zero
emission of carbonaceous species during its utilization. Water electrolysis is a dependable …

Noble metal alloy complex nanostructures: controllable synthesis and their electrochemical property

H Liu, F Nosheen, X Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Noble metal nanocrystals have been extensively utilized as promising catalysts for chemical
transformations and energy conversion. One of their significant applications lies in electrode …

Solvothermal synthesis of metal nanocrystals and their applications

J Lai, W Niu, R Luque, G Xu - Nano Today, 2015 - Elsevier
Solvothermal synthesis has advanced significantly over the past decades and became a
versatile approach to achieve the morphology control of well-defined metal nanostructures …

Element-specific anisotropic growth of shaped platinum alloy nanocrystals

L Gan, C Cui, M Heggen, F Dionigi, S Rudi, P Strasser - Science, 2014 - science.org
Morphological shape in chemistry and biology owes its existence to anisotropic growth and
is closely coupled to distinct functionality. Although much is known about the principal …

Faceted metal and metal oxide nanoparticles: design, fabrication and catalysis

J Pal, T Pal - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The review addresses new advances in metal, bimetallic, metal oxide, and composite
particles in their nanoregime for facet-selective catalytic applications. The synthesis and …

Unique Excavated Rhombic Dodecahedral PtCu3 Alloy Nanocrystals Constructed with Ultrathin Nanosheets of High-Energy {110} Facets

Y Jia, Y Jiang, J Zhang, L Zhang, Q Chen… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Ultrathin crystalline nanosheets give an extremely high surface area of a specific crystal
facet with unique physical and chemical properties compared with normal three …

Size‐controlled synthesis of platinum–copper hierarchical trigonal bipyramid nanoframes

S Chen, H Su, Y Wang, W Wu, J Zeng - Angewandte Chemie, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Mastery over the structure of materials at nanoscale can effectively tailor and control their
catalytic properties, enabling enhancement in both activity and durability. We report a size …

Noble metal nanodendrites: growth mechanisms, synthesis strategies and applications

K Guo, D Xu, L Xu, Y Li, Y Tang - Materials Horizons, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Inorganic nanodendrites (NDs) have become a kind of advanced nanomaterials with broad
application prospects because of their unique branched architecture. The structural …

Autocatalysis and selective oxidative etching induced synthesis of platinum–copper bimetallic alloy nanodendrites electrocatalysts

M Gong, G Fu, Y Chen, Y Tang, T Lu - ACS applied materials & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The controllable synthesis of noble metal alloy nanostructures with highly branched
morphology has attracted much attention because of their specific physical and chemical …

Kinetically controlled synthesis of Pt–Cu alloy concave nanocubes with high-index facets for methanol electro-oxidation

Y Qi, T Bian, SI Choi, Y Jiang, C **, M Fu… - Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Kinetically controlled synthesis of Pt–Cu alloy concave nanocubes with high-index facets for
methanol electro-oxidation - Chemical Communications (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C3CC48061E …