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Crystal cuts on the nanoscale

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A simple method has been developed to control the shape of nanoscale cuprous oxide crystals. Some shapes turn out to be much better than others as catalysts for a light-activated reaction.

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Figure 1: Nanocrystal shapes.

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  1. Peidong Yang is in the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA, and at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.,

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Yang, P. Crystal cuts on the nanoscale. Nature 482, 41–42 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/482041a

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