Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Twin boundary migration in an individual platinum nanocrystal during catalytic CO oxidation

  • Jérôme Carnis,
  • Aseem Rajan Kshirsagar,
  • Longfei Wu,
  • Maxime Dupraz,
  • Stéphane Labat,
  • Michaël Texier,
  • Luc Favre,
  • Lu Gao,
  • Freddy E. Oropeza,
  • Nimrod Gazit,
  • Ehud Almog,
  • Andrea Campos,
  • Jean-Sébastien Micha,
  • Emiel J. M. Hensen,
  • Steven J. Leake,
  • Tobias U. Schülli,
  • Eugen Rabkin,
  • Olivier Thomas,
  • Roberta Poloni,
  • Jan P. Hofmann,
  • Marie-Ingrid Richard

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25625-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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At the nanoscale, elastic strain and crystal defects largely influence the properties and functionalities of materials. Here, the authors report an unusual twin boundary migration process in a single platinum nanoparticle during carbon monoxide oxidation using Bragg coherent diffraction imaging.