A strategy for designing a concave Pt-Ni alloy through controllable chemical etching

Abstract

This corrosion: Octahedral Pt-Ni alloy nanoparticles (NPs) are converted into concave Pt(3)Ni NPs by a coordination-assisted chemical-etching process. The corroded concave Pt-Ni NPs have a higher density of low-coordinate atoms in steps sites, a decisive property in heterogeneous catalysis.