Experimental evidence of icosahedral and decahedral packing in one-dimensional nanostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 6272-6278

  Velázquez Salazar, J Jesús ^a   Esparza, Rodrigo ^a   Mejía Rosales, Sergio Javier ^c   Estrada Salas, Rubén ^a   Ponce, Arturo ^a   Deepak, Francis Leonard ^a,b   Castro Guerrero, Carlos ^a   José Yacamán, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL IBERIAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

aberration corrected electron microscopy; Boerdijk Coxeter Bernal helix; decahedra; icosahedra; nanowires

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION-CORRECTED ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ATOMIC SPECIES; BOERDIJK-COXETER-BERNAL HELIX; BULK CRYSTALS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DECAHEDRA; ELECTRON MICROGRAPH; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL FORMATION; ICOSAHEDRA; METAL SALT; NANO SCALE; NANOWIRE STRUCTURES; OLEYLAMINE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SINGLE STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; NANOWIRES; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 80052073762     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202495r     Document Type: Article

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