Inside Cover: Electrochemically Controlled Growth of AuPt Alloy Nanowires and Nanodendrites (Chem. Asian J. 9/2014)

Abstract

Nanostructures Nanostructures such as nanowires and nanodendrites are important structures useful for a wide range of technologies, including sensors, fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors, and photovoltaic devices. In their Full Paper on , featured on the Inside Cover, Gang Yu, Bo Nian Hu, and Chuan‐Jian Zhong et al. report on the synthesis of gold–platinum (Au–Pt) alloy nanowires and nanodendrites with controllable composition, morphology, size, and structure from aqueous solutions using an electrochemically controlled template‐free method. Through this work, new insights into the growth mechanism of alloy nanostructures have been obtained, which involve an initial facet‐selective nucleation–growth process followed by two competing nucleation–growth pathways that were highly tunable by AC electric‐field parameters.