Researchers love triangles: Shaped catalysts spark longer, faster-growing, rule-breaking nanowires
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 10:01
in Physics & Chemistry
A research team at Case Western Reserve University has found that gold catalysts shaped in the form of a cube, triangle, or other higher order structures grow nanowires about twice as fast and twice as long compared to wires grown with the more typical spherically-shaped catalysts.