Metastability and structural polymorphism in noble metals: The role of composition and metal atom coordination in mono- and bimetallic nanoclusters

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1542-1557

  Sanchez, Sergio I ^a   Small, Matthew W ^a   Bozin, Emil S ^b   Wen, Jian Guo ^a   Zuo, Jian Min ^a   Nuzzo, Ralph G ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

aberration corrected electron microscopy; atomic structure; bimetallic; core shell; nanoparticle; noble metals; pair distribution function

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION-CORRECTED ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ABERRATION-CORRECTED SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; ATOMIC ARRANGEMENT; ATOMIC ORDERING; ATOMIC PAIR DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ATOMIC SCALE; BIMETALLIC; BIMETALLIC NANOCLUSTERS; BIMETALLIC NANOPARTICLES; CORE-SHELL; CRYSTALLINE GROWTH; CRYSTALLINE PHASIS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FACE-CENTERED CUBIC; GROWTH HABIT; KINETICALLY CONTROLLED; METAL ATOMS; METAL PRECURSOR; METASTABILITIES; PAIR DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; POLYMER LIGANDS; STRUCTURAL POLYMORPHISMS; STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS;

ATOMS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GOLD; IRIDIUM; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLES; PLATINUM; PRECIOUS METALS; RHODIUM; SILVER; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TWINNING;

PALLADIUM;

EID: 84874444014     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305314m     Document Type: Article

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