Guo Shaojun, Wang Liang, Wang Erkang
State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022 Jilin, China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2007 Aug 14(30):3163-5. doi: 10.1039/b705630c. Epub 2007 May 25.
We report for the first time a simple low-cost electrochemical route to synthesis of diameter-controlled hierarchical flowerlike gold microstructures with "clean" surfaces using gold nanoplates or nanopricks as building blocks without introducing any template or surfactant.