@article{d4aeedf6923f4b82a17e08d8a21f206b,
title = "Crystal phase-based epitaxial growth of hybrid noble metal nanostructures on 4H/fcc Au nanowires",
abstract = "Crystal-phase engineering offers opportunities for the rational design and synthesis of noble metal nanomaterials with unusual crystal phases that normally do not exist in bulk materials. However, it remains a challenge to use these materials as seeds to construct heterometallic nanostructures with desired crystal phases and morphologies for promising applications such as catalysis. Here, we report a strategy for the synthesis of binary and ternary hybrid noble metal nanostructures. Our synthesized crystal-phase heterostructured 4H/fcc Au nanowires enable the epitaxial growth of Ru nanorods on the 4H phase and fcc-twin boundary in Au nanowires, resulting in hybrid Au-Ru nanowires. Moreover, the method can be extended to the epitaxial growth of Rh, Ru-Rh and Ru-Pt nanorods on the 4H/fcc Au nanowires to form unique hybrid nanowires. Importantly, the Au-Ru hybrid nanowires with tunable compositions exhibit excellent electrocatalytic performance towards the hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline media.",
author = "Qipeng Lu and Wang, {An Liang} and Yue Gong and Wei Hao and Hongfei Cheng and Junze Chen and Bing Li and Nailiang Yang and Wenxin Niu and Jie Wang and Yifu Yu and Xiao Zhang and Ye Chen and Zhanxi Fan and Wu, {Xue Jun} and Jinping Chen and Jun Luo and Shuzhou Li and Lin Gu and Hua Zhang",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by Ministry of Education (MOE) under AcRF Tier 2 (ARC 19/15, no. MOE2014-T2-2-093, MOE2015-T2-2-057, MOE2016-T2-2-103, MOE2017-T2-1-162) and AcRF Tier 1 (2016-T1-001-147, 2016-T1-002-051, 2017-T1-001-150) and Nanyang Technological University under a Start-Up Grant (M4081296.070.500000) in Singapore, the National Program on Key Basic Research Project (2014CB921002), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant no. XDB07030200), the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant no. QYZDB-SSW-JSC035) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51522212, 51421002, 51672307). The authors acknowledge the Facility for Analysis, Characterization, Testing and Simulation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, for use of their electron microscopy facilities. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 The Author(s).",
year = "2018",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1038/s41557-018-0012-0",
language = "English",
volume = "10",
pages = "456--461",
journal = "Nature Chemistry",
issn = "1755-4330",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "4",
}