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    Seeing structures and measuring properties with transmission electron microscopy images: A simple combination to study size effects in nanoparticle systems

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    ISI Document Delivery No.: 466XB Times Cited: 0 Cited Reference Count: 15 Donnadieu, Patricia Lazar, Sorin Botton, Gianluigi A. Pignot-Paintrand, Isabelle Reynolds, Michael Perez, Serge Amer inst physics MelvilleWe report on a method to measure the mean inner potential (V-0) using transmission electron microscopy. It is based on phase retrieval from a focus series and has allowed to measure V-0 as a function of the size for a system of gold nanoparticles. It comes out that V-0 increases for particles below 2 nm. The focus series being carried out in conditions close to the high-resolution ones, structural information can be directly obtained. The high-resolution images have revealed that significant structural change occurs below the 2 nm size, which should be related to the V-0 increase
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