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Revealing Dynamic Processes of Materials in Liquids Using Liquid Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy
Published on: December 20, 2012
The formation and shape transformation mechanism of a triangular Au nanoplate revealed by liquid-cell TEM
Biao Jin1, Haifeng Wang2, Maria L Sushko3
1Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA and Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China. rtang@zju.edu.cn.
Abstract:
We report two different formation mechanisms of a triangular Au nanoplate through the transformation of a truncated octahedron and the direct formation of a triangular seed using liquid-cell TEM. This work stresses the great significance of thermodynamics and kinetics in the formation and later shape transformation of a triangular nanoplate.
