TY - JOUR AU - Chatterjee, Dipanwita AU - Shetty, Shwetha AU - Müller-Caspary, Knut AU - Grieb, Tim AU - Krause, Florian F. AU - Schowalter, Marco AU - Rosenauer, Andreas AU - Ravishankar, Narayanan TI - Ultrathin Au Alloy Nanowires at the Liquid Liquid Interface JO - Nano letters VL - 18 IS - 3 SN - 1530-6984 CY - Washington, DC PB - ACS Publ. M1 - FZJ-2018-04267 SP - 1903–1907 PY - 2018 AB - Ultrathin bimetallic nanowires are of importance and interest for applications in electronic devices such as sensors and heterogeneous catalysts. In this work, we have designed a new, highly reproducible and generalized wet chemical method to synthesize uniform and monodispersed Au-based alloy (AuCu, AuPd, and AuPt) nanowires with tunable composition using microwave-assisted reduction at the liquid–liquid interface. These ultrathin alloy nanowires are below 4 nm in diameter and about 2 μm long. Detailed microstructural characterization shows that the wires have an face centred cubic (FCC) crystal structure, and they have low-energy twin-boundary and stacking-fault defects along the growth direction. The wires exhibit remarkable thermal and mechanical stability that is critical for important applications. The alloy wires exhibit excellent electrocatalytic activity for methanol oxidation in an alkaline medium. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:29397751 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000427910600048 DO - DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b05217 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/850193 ER -