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In situ atomic scale visualization of surface kinetics driven dynamics of oxide growth on a Ni-Cr surface
Langli Luo1, Lianfeng Zou2, Daniel K Schreiber3
1Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA. Chongmin.wang@pnnl.gov.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 28, 2016
Abstract:
We report the in situ atomic-scale visualization of the dynamic three-dimensional growth of NiO during the initial oxidation of Ni-10at%Cr using environmental transmission electron microscopy. A step-by-step adatom growth mechanism in 3D is observed and a change in the surface planes of growing oxide islands can be induced by local surface kinetic variations.
