Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Quantitative 3D real-space analysis of Laves phase supraparticles

  • Da Wang,
  • Ernest B. van der Wee,
  • Daniele Zanaga,
  • Thomas Altantzis,
  • Yaoting Wu,
  • Tonnishtha Dasgupta,
  • Marjolein Dijkstra,
  • Christopher B. Murray,
  • Sara Bals,
  • Alfons van Blaaderen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24227-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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3D real-space analysis of thick nanoparticle crystals is non-trivial. Here, the authors demonstrate the structural analysis of a bulk-like Laves phase by imaging an off-stoichiometric binary mixture of hard-sphere-like nanoparticles in spherical confinement by electron tomography, enabling defect analysis on the single-particle level.