Shape-tunable Pt-Ir alloy nanocatalysts with high performance in oxygen electrode reactions.

For the first time, shape-tunable Pt-Ir alloy nanocatalysts including both single-crystalline (nano-octahedra (NOs), nano-truncated octahedra (NTOs), nanocubes (NCs)) and polycrystalline (nanocluster flowers (NCFs), nanowires (NWs), nano-short-chains (NSCs), and nano-octahedral stars (NOSs)) ones were synthesized with a facile one-pot solvothermal method, via precise control of the facet-selective agents (Br