Direct imaging and chemical identification of the encapsulated metal atoms in bimetallic endofullerene peapods

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3943-3948

  Nicholls, Rebecca J ^a   Sader, Kasim ^b   Warner, Jamie H ^a   Plant, Simon R ^a   Porfyrakis, Kyriakos ^a   Nellist, Peter D ^a   Briggs, G Andrew D ^a   Cockayne, David J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SUPERSTEM LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EELS; peapods; STEM

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION CORRECTION; ATOMIC RESOLUTION; BEAM ENERGIES; BRIGHTFIELD; CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; CHEMICAL IDENTIFICATION; DIRECT IMAGING; ENDO-FULLERENES; FULLERENE PEAPODS; HIGH-ANGLE ANNULAR DARK-FIELD IMAGING; METAL ATOMS; PEA PODS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FULLERENES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ATOMS;

EID: 77955544152     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100823e     Document Type: Article

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