Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Identification of a quasi-liquid phase at solid–liquid interface

  • Xinxing Peng,
  • Fu-Chun Zhu,
  • You-Hong Jiang,
  • Juan-Juan Sun,
  • Liang-Ping Xiao,
  • Shiyuan Zhou,
  • Karen C. Bustillo,
  • Long-Hui Lin,
  • Jun Cheng,
  • Jian-Feng Li,
  • Hong-Gang Liao,
  • Shi-Gang Sun,
  • Haimei Zheng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31075-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Solid–liquid interfaces are ubiquitous in natural and technological processes, but their imaging at the atomic scale has been challenging. The authors, using liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy, identify a quasi-liquid phase and the mass transport between the surface of In and Sn nanocrystals and an aqueous solution.