Although spiral growth in noble metals has been observed, its underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. In this work, the authors demonstrate a high-yield, rapid synthesis of silver nanoplates with spiral morphologies and propose a growth mechanism driven by stochastic mismatches between dendritic arms during planar auto-accelerated oriented assembly, initiated by ligand conformational changes.
- Rok Mravljak
- Aleksandra Kuljanin
- Aleš Podgornik
