bnc

Carving at the Nanoscale

"I speak not of space that is out of the form, around the volume, in which forms lives, but I speak of the space created by forms, that live in them, and that it is more active the more hidden it acts" . (Eduardo Chillida)
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The synthetic route reported in this work produces structures with (A) spherical, (B) cubic and (C) cylindrical topologies. The figure illustrates TEM images accompanied by a drawing that recreates more clearly the morphology of each nanostructure. Bimetallic single-walled hollow nanoparticles, bi- and trimetallic multiwalled hollow nanoparticles, trimetallic multichamber nanoparticles, bimetallic nanocages, nanoframes, porous and segmented nanotubes, and double-walled nanotubes are shown.

What do they have in common a maze, Russian dolls and the ship inside a bottle? The three are objects with internal structure and the three have fascinated humans since the world began. Internal structure determines the properties of object...