Nanostructures: Direct Hydrothermal Synthesis of Carbonaceous Silver Nanocables for Electrocatalytic Applications (Small 29/2015)

X. C. Jiang and co-workers develop a facile hydrothermal method to generate carbonaceous silver (C@Ag) nanocables (in the green image, the cables are 70 nm width and the Ag core is 30 nm) and nanotubes (in the blue image, 50–80 nm in width) under mild conditions. The resultant nanostructures have uniform diameters and a porous structure. On page 3557, the C@Ag nanocables are shown to have exemplary electrocatalytic properties.