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Electron Tomography Resolves a Novel Crystal Structure in a Binary Nanocrystal Superlattice

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    Electron Tomography Resolves a Novel Crystal Structure in a Binary Nanocrystal Superlattice
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    † †Condensed Matter and Interfaces and ‡Soft Condensed Matter, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, University Utrecht, Princetonplein 1, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands
    § Electron Microscopy Group, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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    The self-assembly of different nanocrystals into a binary superlattice is of interest for both colloidal science and nanomaterials science. New properties may emerge from the interaction between the nanocrystal building blocks that are ordered in close contact in three dimensions. Identification of the superlattice structure including its defects is of key interest in understanding the electrical and optical properties of these systems. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been very instrumental to reach this goal but fails for complex crystal structures and buried defects. Here, we use electron tomography to resolve the three-dimensional crystal structure of a binary superlattice that could not be resolved by TEM only. The structure with a [PbSe]6[CdSe]19 stoichiometry has no analogue in the atomic world. Moreover we will show how tomography can overcome the clouding effects of planar defects on structure identification by TEM.

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    Media files showing the raw tilt series (structure1_tilt.mpg (si_002), structure2_tilt.mpg (si_003), structure3_tilt.mpg (si_004)) and the corresponding 3D reconstructions (structure1_rec.mpg (si_005), structure2_rec.mpg (si_006), structure3_rec.mpg (si_007)) of the structures as labeled in Figure1, and a text file containing details on the NC synthesis and the computer aided particle detection, various TEM images of crystal structures observed at a size ratio range of 0.61–0.67, unit cell parameters of the A6B19 crystal structure and details on the space group assignment and the Monte Carlo simulation. This material is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.

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