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Island-type growth of Au-Pt heterodimers: direct visualization of misfit dislocations and strain-relief mechanisms


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Authors

García-Negrete, CA 
Knappett, BR 
Schmidt, FP 
Rojas, TC 
Wheatley, AEH 

Abstract

Structural and analytical characterization related to the formation mechanism of Au–Pt heterodimers from polyhedral Pt nanocrystals is reported.

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Keywords

3403 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry, 34 Chemical Sciences

Journal Title

RSC Advances

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Journal ISSN

2046-2069
2046-2069

Volume Title

5

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Sponsorship
European Commission (312483)
This work has received funding from the European Union within the 7th Framework Programme under Project Al-NanoFunc CTREGPOT- 2011-1-285895 and Grant Agreement no.312483 (ESTEEM2). We acknowledge financial support from the CSIC (PIE 201460E018), the Spanish Ministry MINECO (project CTQ2012- 32519), Junta de Andalucía (FEDER PE2009-FQM-4554, TEP217 and PE2012-TEP-862) and the Graz Centre for Electron Microscopy (ZFE Graz). Thanks go also to the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for a studentship for B. R. Knappett (EP/J500380/1).