Low-melting point metals facilitate synthesis of Pt-based intermetallic nanocrystals

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Xiamen, China (Grant No. 3502Z20227256), the XMIREM Autonomously Deployment Project, China (Grant Nos. 2023CX14 and 2023GG01), the Major Science and Technology Program of Xiamen, China (Grant No. 3502Z20231054), the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province, China (Grant No. 2022J01502), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 22202205 and 22209170), and the STS Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Grant No. 2023T3071).

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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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