Defect-mediated ripening of core-shell nanostructures

Qiubo Zhang; Xinxing Peng; Yifan Nie; Qi Zheng; Junyi Shangguan; Chao Zhu; Karen C. Bustillo; Peter Ercius; Linwang Wang; David T. Limmer; Haimei Zheng

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29847-8

Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Defect-mediated ripening of core-shell nanostructures

Qiubo Zhang,
Xinxing Peng,
Yifan Nie,
Qi Zheng,
Junyi Shangguan,
Chao Zhu,
Karen C. Bustillo,
Peter Ercius,
Linwang Wang,
David T. Limmer,
Haimei Zheng

Affiliations

Qiubo Zhang: Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Xinxing Peng: National Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yifan Nie: Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Qi Zheng: Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Junyi Shangguan: Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Chao Zhu: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Karen C. Bustillo: National Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peter Ercius: National Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Linwang Wang: Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
David T. Limmer: Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Haimei Zheng: Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29847-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Understanding the ripening of core-shell nanostructures is challenging. Here, the authors use liquid cell transmission electron microscopy to show that the atomic ripening pathway for Cd-CdCl2 core-shell nanoparticles is mediated by crack defects.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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