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Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals Shape and Distribution of Dislocations in Single Crystal Nanocomposites
Abstract
With their potential to offer new properties, single crystals containing nanoparticles provide an attractive class of nanocomposite materials. However, to fully profit from these, it is essential that we can characterise their 3D structures, identifying the locations of individual nanoparticles, and the defects present within the host crystals. Using calcite crystals containing quantum dots as a model system, we here use 3D stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) to locate the positions of the nanoparticles within the host crystal. The nanoparticles are shown to preferentially associate with dislocations in a manner previously recognised for atomic impurities, rendering these defects visible by STORM. Our images also demonstrate that the types of dislocations formed at the crystal/ substrate interface vary according to the nucleation face, and dislocation loops are observed that have entirely different geometries to classic misfit dislocations. This approach offers a rapid, easily accessed, and non-destructive method for visualising the dislocations present within crystals, and gives insight into the mechanisms by which additives become occluded within crystals.
- Authors:
- Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland); Univ. of Leeds, Leeds (United Kingdom)
- Univ. of Leeds, Leeds (United Kingdom)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Oxford (United Kingdom). Rutherford Appleton Lab. (RAL), Central Laser Facility
- Univ. of Leeds, Leeds (United Kingdom); Univ. of Central Lancashire, Preston (United Kingdom)
- Univ. College London, London (United Kingdom); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1570673
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-212196-2019-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 1433-7851; ANIE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Angewandte Chemie (International Edition); Journal ID: ISSN 1433-7851
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; calcium carbonate; crystal growth; defect; dislocation; nanostructure; STORM
Citation Formats
Ihli, Johannes, Green, David C., Lynch, Christophe, Holden, Mark A., Lee, Phillip A., Zhang, Shuheng, Robinson, Ian K., Webb, Stephen E.D., and Meldrum, Fiona C. Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals Shape and Distribution of Dislocations in Single Crystal Nanocomposites. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1002/anie.201905293.
Ihli, Johannes, Green, David C., Lynch, Christophe, Holden, Mark A., Lee, Phillip A., Zhang, Shuheng, Robinson, Ian K., Webb, Stephen E.D., & Meldrum, Fiona C. Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals Shape and Distribution of Dislocations in Single Crystal Nanocomposites. United States. doi:10.1002/anie.201905293.
Ihli, Johannes, Green, David C., Lynch, Christophe, Holden, Mark A., Lee, Phillip A., Zhang, Shuheng, Robinson, Ian K., Webb, Stephen E.D., and Meldrum, Fiona C. Tue .
"Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals Shape and Distribution of Dislocations in Single Crystal Nanocomposites". United States. doi:10.1002/anie.201905293.
@article{osti_1570673,
title = {Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals Shape and Distribution of Dislocations in Single Crystal Nanocomposites},
author = {Ihli, Johannes and Green, David C. and Lynch, Christophe and Holden, Mark A. and Lee, Phillip A. and Zhang, Shuheng and Robinson, Ian K. and Webb, Stephen E.D. and Meldrum, Fiona C.},
abstractNote = {With their potential to offer new properties, single crystals containing nanoparticles provide an attractive class of nanocomposite materials. However, to fully profit from these, it is essential that we can characterise their 3D structures, identifying the locations of individual nanoparticles, and the defects present within the host crystals. Using calcite crystals containing quantum dots as a model system, we here use 3D stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) to locate the positions of the nanoparticles within the host crystal. The nanoparticles are shown to preferentially associate with dislocations in a manner previously recognised for atomic impurities, rendering these defects visible by STORM. Our images also demonstrate that the types of dislocations formed at the crystal/ substrate interface vary according to the nucleation face, and dislocation loops are observed that have entirely different geometries to classic misfit dislocations. This approach offers a rapid, easily accessed, and non-destructive method for visualising the dislocations present within crystals, and gives insight into the mechanisms by which additives become occluded within crystals.},
doi = {10.1002/anie.201905293},
journal = {Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {10}
}