Although great progress has been made in the synthesis of metal nanoparticles, their good repeatability and accurate predictability are still difficult to achieve. This difficulty can be attributed to synthetic...

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A robust and universal seed-mediated growth method has been developed for making a series of ultrafine PtCuM (M = Rh, Pd, Ir) alloy nanowires, which show greatly improved electrocatalytic performance for ethanol oxidation reaction.

We firstly report a reliable method to synthesize PtRh-S and PtRh-L NCs with different size of 5.5 and 10.5 nm. PtRh-S NCs show much better electrochemical activity and stability than PtRh-L NCs and pure Pt NCs towards EGOR.