Unusual 4H-phase twinned noble metal nanokites

• Main Authors: Niu, Wenxin, Liu, Jiawei, Huang, Jingtao, Chen, Bo, He, Qiyuan, Wang, An-Liang, Lu, Qipeng, Chen, Ye, Yun, Qinbai, Wang, Jie, Li, Cuiling, Huang, Ying, Lai, Zhuangchai, Fan, Zhanxi, Wu, Xue-Jun, Zhang, Hua
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials; Synthesis and Processing; Noble Metals
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107470; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49723
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Twinning commonly exists in noble metals. In recent years, it has attracted increasing interest as it is powerful to tune the physicochemical properties of metallic nanomaterials. To the best of our knowledge, all the reported twinned noble metal structures exclusively possess the close-packed {111}...