Shuttling single metal atom into and out of a metal nanoparticle

Doping a metal nanocluster with heteroatoms dramatically changes its properties, but it remains difficult to dope with single-atom control. Here, the authors devise a strategy to dope single atoms of Ag or Cu into hollow Au nanoclusters, creating precise alloy nanoparticles atom-by-atom.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shuxin Wang, Hadi Abroshan, Chong Liu, Tian-Yi Luo, Manzhou Zhu, Hyung J. Kim, Nathaniel L. Rosi, Rongchao Jin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00939-0