Abstract
Metallic nanocrystals usually show highly symmetrical particle morphologies, as dictated by their intrinsic crystallographic symmetries. Breaking this morphological symmetry is fundamentally challenging for synthesis, but practically significant because it would allow the introduction of new properties into nanocrystals, enriching their applications for plasmonics, photonics, sensing, and catalysis. In this presentation, I will brief the development of new synthetic routes to metallic nanocrystals with exotic (unusual) morphologies that we developed in the last 3 years.