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Ab Initio Structure Determination of Cu 2- x Te Plasmonic Nanocrystals by Precession-Assisted Electron Diffraction Tomography and HAADF-STEM Imaging.
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Inorganic chemistry [Inorg Chem] 2018 Aug 20; Vol. 57 (16), pp. 10241-10248. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Jul 31. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- We investigated pseudo-cubic Cu <subscript>2- x</subscript> Te nanosheets using electron diffraction tomography and high-resolution HAADF-STEM imaging. The structure of this metastable nanomaterial, which has a strong localized surface plasmon resonance in the near-infrared region, was determined ab initio by 3D electron diffraction data recorded in low-dose nanobeam precession mode, using a new generation background-free single-electron detector. The presence of two different, crystallographically defined modulations creates a 3D connected vacancy channel system, which may account for the strong plasmonic response of this material. Moreover, a pervasive rotational twinning is observed for nanosheets as thin as 40 nm, resulting in a tetragonal pseudo-symmetry.
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1520-510X
- Volume :
- 57
- Issue :
- 16
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Inorganic chemistry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 30063352
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01445