title: Construction of kinked heteronanorods modified by metal nanoparticles with enhanced catalytic performance.
abstract: Unique kinked semiconductor-metal Au-Ag2S-ZnS and Au-Ag2S-ZnS-Au heteronanorods have been synthesized for the first time by a seed-mediated growth method. A plausible mechanism for the formation of kinked heteronanorods is proposed. The catalytic activity of such novel kinked semiconductor-metal heteronanorods with selective deposition and uniform morphology is also investigated via a model reaction based on the reduction of 4-nitrophenol by NaBH4.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, P. R. China. shyu@ustc.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Pan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Tao-Tao
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Zhuang
authors.forename: Meng
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Hang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ruan
authors.forename: Shu-Hong
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Yu