title: Shape controlled growth of gold nanoparticles by a solution synthesis.
abstract: The shape of gold nanoparticles has been successfully tuned among penta-twinned decahedrons, truncated tetrahedrons, cubes, octahedrons, hexagonal thin plates by introducing a small amount of salt into a N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) solution containing poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP), and changing the temperature or the concentration of the gold precursor.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Cha-Geng
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.forename: Zhi-Yuan
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Zhao-Xiong
authors.initials: ZX
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Chang-Jian
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Lin