Abstract
Faulted face-centred cubic platinum nanocrystals, grown within a nanoporous silica matrix, have been extensively characterized by the Debye function analysis method applied to wide-angle synchrotron X-ray total scattering data. A method for building databases of sampled interatomic distances of weakly faulted materials is proposed, maintaining statistical significance and allowing complete populations of differently sized and shaped nanocrystals to be used within the DEBUSSY approach. This study suggests that anisotropic Pt nanoclusters are formed in the presence of a shape-directing (templating) agent, and tentatively describes the effects of post-synthetic temperature treatments on fault probability, size, shape and dispersion of the nanocrystal populations. Surface relaxation effects are also observed in the smallest particles.
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It is with great excitement that we look forward to the New Year at Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances
As the International Year of Crystallography draws to a close, we were delighted to read in the Nature article The top 100 papers [Van Noorden, R., Maher, B. & Nuzzo, R. (2014)
We were even more excited to find that a full seven of the top 100 articles were published in IUCr journals, and of these, four were in Acta A: (1) A short history of SHELX by G
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It is with great excitement that we look forward to the New Year at Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances. As the International Year of Crystallography draws to a close, we were delighted to read in the Nature article The top 100 papers [Van Noorden, R., Maher, B.
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