Picometre-precision analysis of scanning transmission electron microscopy images of platinum nanocatalysts. Yankovich, A., Berkels, c, B., Dahmen, d, W., Binev, P., Sanchez, S., Bradley, S., Li, A., Szlufarska, I., & Voyles, P. Nature Communications, 2014. cited By 3
Picometre-precision analysis of scanning transmission electron microscopy images of platinum nanocatalysts [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
Measuring picometre-scale shifts in the positions of individual atoms in materials provides new insight into the structure of surfaces, defects and interfaces that influence a broad variety of materials' behaviour. Here we demonstrate sub-picometre precision measurements of atom positions in aberration-corrected Z-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy images based on the non-rigid registration and averaging of an image series. Non-rigid registration achieves five to seven times better precision than previous methods. Non-rigidly registered images of a silica-supported platinum nanocatalyst show pm-scale contraction of atoms at a (111)/(111) corner towards the particle centre and expansion of a flat (111) facet. Sub-picometre precision and standardless atom counting with <1 atom uncertainty in the same scanning transmission electron microscopy image provide new insight into the three-dimensional atomic structure of catalyst nanoparticle surfaces, which contain the active sites controlling catalytic reactions. © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
@article{ Yankovich2014,
  author = {Yankovich, A.B.a  and Berkels, B.b  c  and Dahmen, W.b  d  and Binev, P.b  and Sanchez, S.I.e  and Bradley, S.A.e  and Li, A.a  and Szlufarska, I.a  and Voyles, P.M.a },
  title = {Picometre-precision analysis of scanning transmission electron microscopy images of platinum nanocatalysts},
  journal = {Nature Communications},
  year = {2014},
  volume = {5},
  doi = {10.1038/ncomms5155},
  art_number = {4155},
  note = {cited By 3},
  url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84902352354&partnerID=40&md5=37d21207707c43302baa50cc759b5883},
  affiliation = {Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States; Interdisciplinary Mathematics Institute, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, United States; Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science (AICES), RWTH Aachen, Schinkelstrasse 2, Aachen 52062, Germany; Institut für Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik, RWTH Aachen, Templergraben 55, Aachen 52056, Germany; UOP LLC A Honeywell Company, Des Plaines, IL 60017, United States},
  abstract = {Measuring picometre-scale shifts in the positions of individual atoms in materials provides new insight into the structure of surfaces, defects and interfaces that influence a broad variety of materials' behaviour. Here we demonstrate sub-picometre precision measurements of atom positions in aberration-corrected Z-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy images based on the non-rigid registration and averaging of an image series. Non-rigid registration achieves five to seven times better precision than previous methods. Non-rigidly registered images of a silica-supported platinum nanocatalyst show pm-scale contraction of atoms at a (111)/(111) corner towards the particle centre and expansion of a flat (111) facet. Sub-picometre precision and standardless atom counting with <1 atom uncertainty in the same scanning transmission electron microscopy image provide new insight into the three-dimensional atomic structure of catalyst nanoparticle surfaces, which contain the active sites controlling catalytic reactions. © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.},
  document_type = {Article},
  source = {Scopus}
}

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