“…In the last decade, several nanoscale metals have been anchored on SiNWs for catalytic purposes (Au [22,23], Ag [24,25,26], Pd [27,28,29,30], Pt [31,32], Cu [33,34] etc.). Decoration by chemical reduction has been frequently employed, with applications mainly in the degradation of dyes and pollutants [22,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,33], but also in cross-coupling reactions [3,27,28,34].…”