morphologies via a one-step seeded-growth method. Two different reducing agents, namely,
l-ascorbic acid and citric acid, were utilized for the reduction of HAuCl4 in an aqueous
solution to control the overgrowth of Au on cubic Pd seeds. When l-ascorbic acid was used
as the reducing agent, conformal overgrowth of Au on the Pd nanocubes led to the formation
of Pd− Au nanocrystals with a core− shell structure. On the contrary, localized overgrowth of …