Island-type growth of Au-Pt heterodimers: direct visualization of misfit dislocations and strain-relief mechanisms
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Structural and analytical characterization related to the formation mechanism of Au–Pt heterodimers from polyhedral Pt nanocrystals is reported.
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3403 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry, 34 Chemical Sciences
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RSC Advances
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2046-2069
2046-2069
2046-2069
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5
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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European Commission (312483)
This work has received funding from the European Union within the
7th Framework Programme under Project Al-NanoFunc CTREGPOT-
2011-1-285895 and Grant Agreement no.312483
(ESTEEM2). We acknowledge financial support from the CSIC (PIE
201460E018), the Spanish Ministry MINECO (project CTQ2012-
32519), Junta de Andalucía (FEDER PE2009-FQM-4554, TEP217
and PE2012-TEP-862) and the Graz Centre for Electron Microscopy
(ZFE Graz). Thanks go also to the UK Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council for a studentship for B. R. Knappett
(EP/J500380/1).