Sara E. Skrabalak

TL;DR: It is shown that Au/Pd octopods, eight-branched nanocrystals with O h symmetry, with only a low amount of Pd exhibited a high thermal stability and maintained strong plasmon resonances up to 600 °C.

TL;DR: The principle of sequential seed-directed overgrowth should enable the synthesis of new hierarchical inorganic structures with high symmetry, and is demonstrated as a route to metal dendrimers, which are hierarchically branched nanocrystals (NCs) with a three-dimensional order analogous to that of molecular dendedrimers.

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: In this paper, the size and shape effects of Pd nanocrystals are examined as they are applied as semihydrogenation catalysts, and the results from this study will facilitate the decoupling of the sizes and shape contributions to the geometric parameters of PD nanocatalysts.

TL;DR: The influence of different metal-ligand environments is systematically examined in the synthesis of Pd-Pt nanostructures as a model bimetallic system, where the local ligand environments of metal precursors dictate if temporally separated co-reduction dominates to achieve core-shell nanostructure formation.