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Room Temperature Synthesis of Thermally Immiscible Ag-Ni Nanoalloys Zhenyuan Zhang,† Tina M. Nenoff,*,† Jian Yu Huang,‡ Donald T. Berry,§ and Paula P. Provencio| Department of Surface and Interface Sciences, MS-1415, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, MS-1314, Department of Hot Cells and Gamma Facilities, MS-1143, Department of Radiation-Solid Interactions, MS-1415, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185 ReceiVed: NoVember 7, 2008; ReVised Manuscript ReceiVed: December 18, 2008
The properties of bimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) are greatly affected by their structures, that is, alloy versus core-shell. Many binary phases are dictated by their thermodynamically most favorable composition. We recently synthesized stable small Ag-Ni alloy NPs (
