1 World Premier International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan. [email protected].
Mesoporous Pt hollow cubes (MPHCs) are successfully synthesized by using surfactant micelles as the soft-template directing uniformly-sized mesopores. Silver (Ag) cubes are utilized as the hard-template for the creation of hollow interiors.