Investigating the Heterogeneous Nucleation in Nanocrystal Growth with an Isocyanide Probe by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Bimetallic nanocrystals, made of two different metal species, have properties that are often superior to their single-metal counterparts. The arrangement of the two different metals relative to each other in the nanocrystal is very important in determining the nanocrystal properties, and considerable effort has been made to deposit one metal atop the nanocrystal surface of another metal with precision in location...