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Homogeneous and complex catalysts
It is challenging to design alloy nanocrystals with complex but homogeneous configurations. Now, a direct solution-phase synthesis is reported which can incorporate different alloy configurations into one nano...
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Open AccessEfficient overall water splitting in acid with anisotropic metal nanosheets
Water is the only available fossil-free source of hydrogen. Splitting water electrochemically is among the most used techniques, however, it accounts for only 4% of global hydrogen production. One of the reaso...
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Tuning the interfaces of Co–Co2C with sodium and its relation to the higher alcohol production in Fischer–Tropsch synthesis
Catalytic conversion of the syngas into higher alcohols (HAs) via Fischer–Tropsch (F–T) synthesis is essential due to the widespread applications of HAs. The interfaces of cobalt and cobalt carbide (Co2C) are fou...
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Replacing PVP by macrocycle cucurbit[6]uril to cap sub-5 nm Pd nanocubes as highly active and durable catalyst for ethanol electrooxidation
Pd nanocubes (NCs) enclosed by six {100} facets are fascinating model materials for both fundamental studies and practical applications. However, the only available method to prepare well-defined sub-10 nm Pd ...
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Open AccessSelective control of fcc and hcp crystal structures in Au–Ru solid-solution alloy nanoparticles
Binary solid-solution alloys generally adopt one of three principal crystal lattices—body-centred cubic (bcc), hexagonal close-packed (hcp) or face-centred cubic (fcc) structures—in which the structure is domi...
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Facile ultrafine copper seed-mediated approach for fabricating quasi-two-dimensional palladium-copper bimetallic trigonal hierarchical nanoframes
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 physicoc...
