Authors: Wenxin Niu, Jiawei Liu, Jingtao Huang, Bo Chen, Qiyuan He, An-Liang Wang, Qipeng Lu, Ye Chen, Qinbai Yun, Jie Wang, Cuiling Li, Ying Huang, Zhuangchai Lai, Zhanxi Fan, Xue-Jun Wu, Hua Zhang
Published: 2019-06-28
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10764-2
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AbstractTwinning commonly exists in noble metals. In recent years, it has attracted increasing interest as it is powerful to tune the physicochemical properties of metallic nanomaterials. To the best of our knowledge, all the reported twinned noble metal structures exclusively possess the close-packed {111} twinning plane. Here, we report the discovery of non-close-packed twinning planes in our synthesized Au nanokites. By using the bent Au nanoribbons with unique 4H/face-centered cubic)/4H crystal-phase heterostructures as templates, Au nanokites with unusual twinned 4H-phase structures have been synthesized, which possess the non-close-packed {10$$\bar 1$$