Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

X-ray studies bridge the molecular and macro length scales during the emergence of CoO assemblies

  • Lukas Grote,
  • Cecilia A. Zito,
  • Kilian Frank,
  • Ann-Christin Dippel,
  • Patrick Reisbeck,
  • Krzysztof Pitala,
  • Kristina O. Kvashnina,
  • Stephen Bauters,
  • Blanka Detlefs,
  • Oleh Ivashko,
  • Pallavi Pandit,
  • Matthias Rebber,
  • Sani Y. Harouna-Mayer,
  • Bert Nickel,
  • Dorota Koziej

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24557-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The understanding of nucleation and growth of nanostructures plays a key role in complex materials design. Here, the authors illustrate how X-ray in situ studies link transformation at the molecular- and macro- length scales during the emergence of cobalt oxide assemblies.