Three-dimensional shapes and structures of lamellar-twinned fcc nanoparticles using ADF STEM

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 167-174

  Gontard, Lionel C ^a,b   Dunin Borkowski, Rafal E ^a,b   Gass, Mhairi H ^c   Bleloch, Andrew L ^c   Ozkaya, Dogan ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c DARESBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHNSON MATTHEY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron tomography; Heterogeneous catalysis; Nanoparticle shapes; Nanoparticles; Platinum; Platinum alloys

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PLATINUM ALLOYS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANNULAR DARK FIELD SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FACE-CENTERED CUBIC STRUCTURE; NANOPARTICLE SHAPE; PT ALLOY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMALL PARTICLES; SUB-UNITS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS;

EID: 68349103063     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: 14779986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/dfp003     Document Type: Article

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