Bi/trinuclear PtCu cluster assembly from isolated metal atoms.

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Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China.

Published: March 2022


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We report a facile strategy for synthesizing uniform heterometallic bi/tri-atom clusters starting from mono-metallic atoms in the liquid phase. Specifically, PtCu bi/tri-atoms are prepared by reducing CuCl at preformed Pt atoms with ethanol inside a PDMS-PEG protective layer. The metal atoms in the PtCu clusters are in reduced chemical states.

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