Extinction efficiency of gold–silver
nanoparticles at a
size equal to 4 nm for various shapes: (a) tetrahedron, (b) octahedron,
(c) decahedron, (d) dodecahedron, (e) icosahedron, (f) cube, (g) truncated
octahedron, (h) cuboctahedron, and (i) rhombic dodecahedron.