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SUBMITTER: Carnegie C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6997371 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20200203 1
The dynamic restructuring of metal nanoparticle surfaces is known to greatly influence their catalytic, electronic transport, and chemical binding functionalities. Here we show for the first time that non-equilibrium atomic-scale lattice defects can be detected in nanoparticles by purely optical means. These fluctuating states determine interface electronic transport for molecular electronics but because such rearrangements are low energy, measuring their rapid dynamics on single nanostructures ...[more]