Bimetallic nanoparticles (BMNPs) are frontrunners in various fields including heterogeneous catalysis, medicinal applications, and medical imaging. Tailoring their properties requires adequate control over structure composition, which still presents a non-trivial endeavor. We present flexible strategy to deposit phase-controlled BMNPs by vapor-phase “titration” of secondary metal pre-deposited ...

Molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory calculations have been used to demonstrate the possibility of preserving high spin states of the magnetic cores within Ni-based core-shell bimetallic nanoalloys over a wide range of temperatures. We show that, unlike the case of Ni-Al clusters, Ni-Ag clusters preserve high spin states (up to 8 μ(B) in case of Ni13Ag32 cluster) due to ...