Manipulating Local Ligand Environments for the Controlled Nucleation of Metal Nanoparticles and their Assembly into Nanodendrites

Branching out: A simple two-component system comprised of a Pd precursor and oleylamine has shown that both the rate of nanoparticle nucleation and growth can be controlled by manipulating the local ligand environment, thus allowing the facile selection of either Pd nanodendrites or monodisperse Pd nanoparticles (see TEM images). This ligand-controlled approach connects fundamental principles of coordination chemistry to nanostructure design. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.