Kallum M. Koczkur

TL;DR: The concluding guidelines provided herein should enable new nanostructures to be accessed facilely, and the properties of PVP-capped NPs for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), assembly, catalysis, and more are discussed.

TL;DR: As synthetic methods advance for metal nanoparticles, more rigorous studies of structure-function relationships can be made, and the properties and electrocatalytic behavior of random alloyed and intermetallic nanoparticles are compared.

TL;DR: In this paper, the lattice mismatch between core and shell regions induces strain, affecting the electronic properties of the shell metal, which is important for applications in catalysis, and the results suggest that not strain alone but secondary factors such as structural defects or structural changes in operando may account for observed enhancements in some strain-engineered nanocatalysts; e.g., Rh@Pt nanocubes for formic acid electrooxidation.

TL;DR: Characterization of the products by multimode electron tomography and analysis of the NC morphologies at different overgrowth stages indicate that the branching patterns are directed by the seed defects, with the emergence of branches from the seed faces consistent with minimizing volumetric strain energy at the expense of surface energy.

TL;DR: Understanding of SMCR is expanded as a route to structurally defined bimetallic nanostructures and the synthesis of multicomponent nanomaterials more generally.