Monitoring the shape evolution of silver nanoplates: a marker study

James Goebl; Qiao Zhang; Le He; Yadong Yin

doi:10.1002/anie.201107240

Monitoring the shape evolution of silver nanoplates: a marker study

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2012 Jan 9;51(2):552-5. doi: 10.1002/anie.201107240. Epub 2011 Nov 29.

Authors

James Goebl¹, Qiao Zhang, Le He, Yadong Yin

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.

PMID: 22125270
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201107240

Abstract

Out of the frame: A marker study using gold frames was designed to reveal that silver nanoplates undergo a shape transition during their seeded growth from triangular to circular to hexagonal plates before ultimately returning to triangular structures with an orientation 180° relative to that of the original triangular seeds (see picture, the original gold triangular frame is visible at the center of the silver nanoplate).