title: Synthesis of convex hexoctahedral Pt micro/nanocrystals with high-index facets and electrochemistry-mediated shape evolution.
abstract: Systematic manipulation of nanocrystal shapes is prerequisite for revealing their shape-dependent physical and chemical properties. Here we successfully prepared a complex shape of Pt micro/nanocrystals: convex hexoctahedron (HOH) enclosed with 48 {15 5 3} high-index facets by electrochemical square-wave-potential (SWP) method. This shape is the last crystal single form that had not been achieved previously for face-centered-cubic (fcc) metals. We further realized the shape evolution of Pt nanocrystals with high-index facets from tetrahexahedron (THH) to the HOH, and finally to trapezohedron (TPH) by increasing either the upper (EU) or lower potential (EL). The shape evolution, accompanied by the decrease of low-coordinated kink atoms, can be correlated with the competitive interactions between preferentially oxidative dissolution of kink atoms at high EU and the redeposition of Pt atoms at the EL.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University , Xiamen 361005, China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Shuo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Zhi-You
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Hai-Xia
authors.initials: HX
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Bin-Bin
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Shi-Gang
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Sun