Nano Letters • Vol 24 • No 14
Experimental High-Resolution Observation of the Truncated Double-Icosahedron Structure: A Stable Twinned Shell in Alloyed Au–Ag Core@Shell Nanoparticles
April 2024 • Rubén Mendoza‐Cruz, Juan Pedro Palomares-Báez, S. López-López, J.M. Montejano‐Carrizales, José Luis Rodríguez‐López, Miguel José–Yacamán, Lourdes Baz…
Given the binary nature of nanoalloy systems, their properties are dependent on their size, shape, structure, composition, and chemical ordering. When energy and entropic factors for shapes and structure variations are considered in nanoparticle growth, the spectra of shapes become so vast that even metastable arrangements have been reported under ambient conditions. Experimental and theoretical variations of multiply twinned particles have been observed, from the Ino and Marks decahedra to polyicosahedra and poly…