Advanced electrochemical synthesis of multicomponent metallic nanorods and nanowires: Fundamentals and applications

•Recent advances in multicomponent metallic nanowires/nanorods electrochemical synthesis.•Core@shell, composite, bi- or multisegmented, bioinorganic and porous segments containing nanowires/nanorods.•Use and perspectives in clean energy, catalysis, water remediation, medicine and health, sensing and biosensing, and nanorobotics.