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Novel hydrogen storage properties of palladium nanocrystals activated by a pentagonal cyclic twinned structure

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Researchers appear to have neglected a special form of crystallites, pentagonal cyclic twinning, in which an obvious two-dimensional lattice expansion exists leading to novel physical–chemical properties associated with the changes in geometric and electronic structures. Using the storage and release of hydrogen in Pd nanocrystals as a probe, we have found that icosahedral pentagonal cyclic twinned Pd nanocrystals had distinct hydrogen storage properties, due to the two-dimensional lattice expansions, quite different from those of the octahedral single crystalline counterpart. In addition, the two-dimensional lattice expansion in pentagonal cyclic twinned Pd nanocrystals causes a change in electronic structure, which results in novel catalytic properties involving in situ formation of PdH x pentagonal cyclic twinned nanocrystals.

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    Huang Huang, Shixiong Bao, Qiaoli Chen, Yanan Yang, Zhiyuan Jiang, Qin Kuang, Xiaoyin Wu, Zhaoxiong Xie & Lansun Zheng

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Huang, H., Bao, S., Chen, Q. et al. Novel hydrogen storage properties of palladium nanocrystals activated by a pentagonal cyclic twinned structure. Nano Res. 8, 2698–2705 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-015-0776-0

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