Visualization of the coalescence of bismuth nanoparticles

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 416-424

  Niu, Kai Yang ^a   Liao, Hong Gang ^a   Zheng, Haimei ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

coalescence; grain boundary diffusion; in situ TEM; liquid cell TEM; surface diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899047923     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927614000282     Document Type: Article

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