Flickering nanometre-scale disorder in a crystal lattice tracked by plasmonic flare light emission

Dynamic restructuring of metal nanoparticle surfaces greatly influences their catalytic, electronic transport, and chemical binding functionalities. Here, the authors show that non-equilibrium atomic-scale lattice defects can be detected in nanoparticles by using nano-optics at the sub-5nm scale.

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Main Authors: Cloudy Carnegie, Mattin Urbieta, Rohit Chikkaraddy, Bart de Nijs, Jack Griffiths, William M. Deacon, Marlous Kamp, Nerea Zabala, Javier Aizpurua, Jeremy J. Baumberg
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/7dd73ffdc5734d25a564a2fce9607db3
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