Chiral plasmonic crystals with 5-fold symmetries were synthesized from Au icosahedra, decahedra, and pentatwinned nanorods, unraveling the effects of seed twinning and aspect ratio on chiral overgrowth directed by L-glutathione. The influence of seed size on the overgrowth from pentatwinned nanorods was also studied, giving insight into the role volumetric strain plays in chiral crystal formation. Single particle reconstructions were obtained using electron tomography, and optical simulations on the measured structures verify their optical chirality.
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January 2025
Kurchatov Genomics Center, Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Lavrentiev Av. 10, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia.
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January 2025
Department of Chemistry, Indiana University - Bloomington, 800 E Kirkwood Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
Chiral plasmonic crystals with 5-fold symmetries were synthesized from Au icosahedra, decahedra, and pentatwinned nanorods, unraveling the effects of seed twinning and aspect ratio on chiral overgrowth directed by L-glutathione. The influence of seed size on the overgrowth from pentatwinned nanorods was also studied, giving insight into the role volumetric strain plays in chiral crystal formation. Single particle reconstructions were obtained using electron tomography, and optical simulations on the measured structures verify their optical chirality.
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December 2024
Department of Physical Chemistry and Microreaction Technology, Institute for Chemistry and Biotechnology, TU Ilmenau, Weimarer Straße 32, 98693, Ilmenau, Germany.
We are presenting an easy synthetic access to the aqueous synthesis of truncated trigonal silver nanobipyramids with tunable width and height in a facile two step synthesis. We modified a synthesis that employs seed particles with twinning faults on which silver is deposited laterally along the twinning fault, leading to flat particles. The ratio of lateral and vertical growth is adjusted by the co-titration of further noble metal salts at nanomolar concentrations alongside the silver precursor.
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January 2025
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300044, Taiwan.
Many spectacular nanotwinned Cu (nt-Cu) properties depend on the spacing of adjacent twin boundaries (TBs) inside crystal grains. The average TB spacing is typically 10-100 nm in electrodeposited nt-Cu films. This study employed template-assisted electrodeposition to grow nt-Cu nanowires with high-density TBs (average TB spacing <5 nm).
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November 2024
Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Induction of parthenogenesis (embryo formation from unfertilized egg cells) by embryogenic transcription factors is associated with twin formation at high frequencies, and involves two distinct mechanisms. Synthetic apomixis has been achieved through the induction of parthenogenesis by ectopic expression of the Baby Boom family of transcription factors. An associated phenomenon from this process is the formation of polyembryony including twin progeny at high frequencies, but the underlying mechanisms have not been explored.
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