In situ study of the growth of two-dimensional palladium dendritic nanostructures using liquid-cell electron microscopy

Guomin Zhu; Yingying Jiang; Fang Lin; Hui Zhang; Chuanhong Jin; Jun Yuan; Deren Yang; Ze Zhang

doi:10.1039/c4cc03500c

In situ study of the growth of two-dimensional palladium dendritic nanostructures using liquid-cell electron microscopy

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Aug 28;50(67):9447-50. doi: 10.1039/c4cc03500c.

Authors

Guomin Zhu¹, Yingying Jiang, Fang Lin, Hui Zhang, Chuanhong Jin, Jun Yuan, Deren Yang, Ze Zhang

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province, Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, P. R. China. [email protected] [email protected].

PMID: 24938863
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc03500c

Abstract

We investigated the growth of two-dimensional (2D) palladium dendritic nanostructures (DNSs) using in situ liquid-cell transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Detailed in situ and ex situ high-resolution scanning TEM (S/TEM) characterization and fractal dimension analyses reveal that the diffusion-limited aggregation and direct atomic deposition are responsible for the growth of palladium dendritic nanostructures.