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Lucy Gloag1, Tania M Benedetti1, Soshan Cheong2
1School of Chemistry , The University of New South Wales , Sydney , New South Wales 2052 , Australia.
Abstract:
A major synthetic challenge is to make metal nanoparticles with nanosized branches and well-defined facets for high-performance catalysts. Herein, we introduce a mechanism that uses the growth of hexagonal crystal structured branches off cubic crystal structured core nanoparticles. We control the growth to form Pd-core Ru-branch nanoparticles that have nanosized branches with low index Ru facets. We demonstrate that the branched and faceted structural features of the Pd-Ru nanoparticles retain high catalytic activity while also achieving high stability for the oxygen evolution reaction.
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