Sudden collective atomic rearrangements trigger the growth of defect-free silver icosahedra
Diana Nelli, Cesare Roncaglia, Riccardo Ferrando, Zeinab Kataya, Y. Garreau, Alessandro Coati, C. Andreazza‐Vignolle, Pascal Andreazza
Abstract
event, as they occur suddenly and rarely, but their occurrence is decisive for the final outcome of the growth. Annealing and ageing experiments show that the as-grown icosahedra are metastable, in agreement with the energetic stability calculations.
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NanotechnologyChemical physicsMaterials scienceChemistrynanoparticles nucleation surface interactionsNanocluster Synthesis and ApplicationsCatalytic Processes in Materials Science