Cubic Shapes of Nanoparticles (IMAGE)

University of Helsinki

Cubic Shapes of Nanoparticles

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Originally close-to-spherical iron nanoparticle nuclei grow in magnetron sputter chambers either cubic or spheres. The research revealed a specific regime of temperature and deposition rates leading to thermodynamically unexpected cubic shapes of final nanoparticles.

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Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos

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