Direct structural transformation of silver platelets into right bipyramids and twinned cube nanoparticles: morphology governed by defects.
Silver platelets can undergo quantitative conversion to right bipyramids and twinned cubes by regrowth with silver in conditions that preserve original 2-D structural defects in resulting 3-D morphologies.
McEachran
Matthew
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Chemistry Department, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave. W, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5.
Kitaev
Vladimir
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D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
D012834:Silver