Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 3, Issue 11, Pages 3809-3813Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn9012252
Keywords
nanoparticles; coalescence; kinetic Monte Carlo; transmission electron microscopy
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- Royal Society of New Zealand [IRL06004]
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
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We report on a real-time in situ TEM study of the coalescence of individual pairs of decahedral gold nanoparticles, which have been synthesized in solution. We observe the rate of growth of the neck that joins two particles during coalescence and compare this to classical continuum theory and to atomistic kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. We find good agreement between the observations and the simulations but not with the classical continuum model. This disagreement is attributed to the faceted nature of the particles.
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