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Facile ultrafine copper seed-mediated approach for fabricating quasi-two-dimensional palladium-copper bimetallic trigonal hierarchical nanoframes

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Anisotropic Pd nanoparticles with highly branched morphologies are urgently needed as building blocks for nanoscale devices, catalysts, and sensing materials owing to their novel structures and unique physicochemical properties. However, realizing size control and branch manipulation for these materials is very challenging. In this study, we develop a facile ultrafine Cu seed-mediated approach in the aqueous phase to produce novel Pd–Cu trigonal hierarchical nanoframes (THNFs). The main branch of most of the obtained nanocrystals is tripod-like, with advanced branches along the arms as frame units having self-similarity. In this method, the size of the Pd–Cu THNFs can be flexibly controlled by manipulating the nucleation involving the sub-3 nm Cu seeds. These Pd–Cu THNFs outperform Pd black with regard to their ethanol-oxidation performance, having a specific activity and mass activity 9.7 and 6.6 times higher, respectively. This research provides a versatile ultrafine seed-mediated approach for producing size-controlled anisotropic bimetallic nanoframes.

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We acknowledge financial support from the National Basic Research Program of China (Nos. 2014CB845605 and 2013CB933200), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21521061, 21573238, 21331006, 21571177, and 21520102001), Strtegic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDB20000000), the Natural Science Foundation of the Fujian Province (No. 2014J05022), and the Chunmiao Project of the Haixi Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. CMZX-2014-004).

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    Min Shen, Yuanbiao Huang, Dongshuang Wu, Jian Lü, Minna Cao, Meimei Liu, Yinglong Yang, Hongfang Li, Binbin Guo & Rong Cao

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Shen, M., Huang, Y., Wu, D. et al. Facile ultrafine copper seed-mediated approach for fabricating quasi-two-dimensional palladium-copper bimetallic trigonal hierarchical nanoframes. Nano Res. 10, 2810–2822 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1487-5

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