Nanocrystals are fundamental to modern science and technology. Mastery over the shape of a nanocrystal enables control of its properties and enhancement of its usefulness for a given application. Our aim is to present a comprehensive review of current research activities that center on the shape-controlled synthesis of metal nanocrystals. We begin with a brief introduction to nucleation and growth within the context of metal nanocrystal synthesis, followed by a discussion of the possible shapes that a metal nanocrystal might take under different conditions. We then focus on a variety of experimental parameters that have been explored to manipulate the nucleation and growth of metal nanocrystals in solution-phase syntheses in an effort to generate specific shapes. We then elaborate on these approaches by selecting examples in which there is already reasonable understanding for the observed shape control or at least the protocols have proven to be reproducible and controllable. Finally, we highlight a number of applications that have been enabled and/or enhanced by the shape-controlled synthesis of metal nanocrystals. We conclude this article with personal perspectives on the directions toward which future research in this field might take.

Shape‐Controlled Synthesis of Metal Nanocrystals: Simple Chemistry Meets Complex Physics?

Strong Closed-Shell Interactions in Inorganic Chemistry.

Advances in copper complexes as anticancer agents.

Polymeric materials with antimicrobial activity

The challenge of cyclic and acyclic schiff bases and related derivatives

Organophosphines in Organoplatinum Complexes - Structural Aspects of cis-PtP2C2Derivatives

Heterometallic Tin Compounds: Classification and Analysis of Crystallographic and Structural Data. Part 1. Dimeric Derivatives

Darstellung, uv-spektrum und magnetische eigenschaften von kupfer(ii)-alpha- und -beta-chlor-propionat

The heterometallic tin clusters cover a huge field, as shown by a recent survey covering the crystallographic and structural data of over six hundred examples. About 8 % of these clusters exist as isomers and are summarised in this review. The isomers are examples of distortion isomerism. These are discussed in terms of the coordination about the tin as well as heterometal atoms, and correlations are drawn between the donor atom, bond length and bond angles, with attention to distortion of the respective geometry. Distortion isomers, differing only by degree of distortion in M L and L M L angles, are the most common.

Distortion Isomerism in the Chemistry of Heterometallic Tin Clusters

Structural Aspects of Red Copper(I) Compounds

Milan Melnik

Papers

Organophosphines in Organoplatinum Complexes - Structural Aspects of cis-PtP2C2Derivatives

Heterometallic Tin Compounds: Classification and Analysis of Crystallographic and Structural Data. Part 1. Dimeric Derivatives

Darstellung, uv-spektrum und magnetische eigenschaften von kupfer(ii)-alpha- und -beta-chlor-propionat

Distortion Isomerism in the Chemistry of Heterometallic Tin Clusters

Structural Aspects of Red Copper(I) Compounds