Correlating structure, morphology and properties of metal nanostructures by combining single-particle optical spectroscopy and electron microscopy

Abstract

The nanoscale morphology of metal nanostructures directly defines their optical, catalytic and electronic properties and even small morphological changes can cause significant property variations. On the one hand, this dependence...

Disentangling the Effects of Laser and Electron Irradiation on AgX (X = Cl, Br, and I): Insights from Quantum Chemical Calculations

“…14,15 LI and EI processes are governed by a complex interplay between thermodynamics and kinetics, wherein the excess of energy distorts the lattice structure, inducing growth and crystallization of the materials. 16,17 Characterization of the nature and spatial extent of structural disorder and electronic changes induced by LI and EI evades most of the experimentally available techniques. 18 Quantum mechanical simulations, based on first-principles calculations, have full access to these phenomena at atomistic scale 19 but face the challenge of accurately sampling high-dimensional configuration spaces to identify the thermodynamic and kinetic conditions that impact material properties.…”