Issue 12, 2010
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CrystEngComm

Controlling the three-dimensional morphology of nanocrystals†

Hugo A. Day,a   Dorota Bartczak,a   Natasha Fairbairn,a   Eva Mcguire,b   Mahmoud Ardakani,b   Alexandra E. Porterb  and  Antonios G. Kanaras*a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, UK
E-mail: a.kanaras@soton.ac.uk

b Department of Materials, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, UK

Abstract

We successfully demonstrate the morphological manipulation of complex three-dimensional gold nanocrystals. The control upon the nanoparticle crystal structure was achieved by the discovery of a new crystal growth kinetics regime where the number and length of arms as well as the nanocrystal size can be altered to produce a multitude of architectures. The synergetic relationship between chemical reaction components and possible mechanistic pathways is discussed. TEM tomography was employed to characterize the three-dimensional structure of the complex morphologies.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CE00264J
Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 Jun 2010
Accepted
19 Jul 2010
First published
10 Aug 2010

CrystEngComm, 2010,12, 4312-4316

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Controlling the three-dimensional morphology of nanocrystals

H. A. Day, D. Bartczak, N. Fairbairn, E. Mcguire, M. Ardakani, A. E. Porter and A. G. Kanaras, CrystEngComm, 2010, 12, 4312 DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00264J

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