Polyol and Template-Free Synthesis

Xia and coworkers have created a variety of Pt nanowires using the polyol process [65, 129-131]. In a typical procedure, H2PtCl or K2PtCl was dissolved in EG, 

Sun et al. demonstrated the formation of large quantities of single-crystal Pt nano wires from H2PtCl6 aqueous solution with formic acid, at room temperature 

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