title: Rational Design of Metal Nanoframes for Catalysis and Plasmonics.
abstract: Recently, metal nanoframes have received increased attention due to their unique spatial and physicochemical, e.g., catalytic and plasmonic properties. So far, a variety of synthetic procedures have been developed to fabricate metal nanoframes with different shapes, sizes and compositions. Typical synthesis of metal nanoframes involves two stages: 1) formation of solid nanocrystals and 2) hollowing out the interiors and side faces. In this review, solution-phase synthetic strategies are summarized, based on galvanic replacement reactions, oxidative etching, the Kirkendall effect, electrodeposition, and template-assisted growth, as well as one-pot synthesis. Their potential applications in catalysis and optical sensing are overviewed as well.
authors.affiliation: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN-USTC) and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Zhicheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.affiliation: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN-USTC) and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Youcheng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN-USTC) and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Chenxuan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN-USTC) and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Sheng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN-USTC) and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218, USA.
authors.forename: Chao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN-USTC) and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zeng
keywords: catalysis; metal nanoframes; plasmonics