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Analysis of the contrast in icosahedral gold nanoparticles

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When observing nanoparticles with the transmission electron microscope very often we observe a contrast that can be interpreted at first sight as coming from a some kind of a quasicrystalline array, i.e. with order but not periodicity. In the case of icosahedral particles their structure has been well studied by many years and their contrast explained in terms of twins. In this work we present the analysis of the quasi-periodic contrast observed in icosahedral gold nanoparticles along the five-fold direction, which resembles the contrasts of a quasicrystalline structures. A detailed analysis led us to demonstrate that it could correspond to a Moiré-pattern artifact produced in an array of Mackay icosahedra.

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  1. Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 20-364, 01000, México, D.F., México

    J. Reyes-Gasga & S. Tehuacanero-Nuñez

  2. Instituto de Física, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, 78000, San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., México

    J. M. Montejano-Carrizales

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Xiaoxia Gao & M. Jose-Yacaman

  4. Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    M. Jose-Yacaman

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Reyes-Gasga, J., Tehuacanero-Nuñez, S., Montejano-Carrizales, J.M. et al. Analysis of the contrast in icosahedral gold nanoparticles. Top Catal 46, 23–30 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-007-0311-y

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