Nanoparticles can be beautiful, as in stained glass windows, or they can be ugly as in wear
and corrosion debris from implants. We estimate that there will be about 70 000 papers in …

The importance of stress and strain effects on surface physics are reviewed. For this purpose
the following points are developed.(1) The elastic, thermodynamics and atomistic definitions …

An short review of the shape of supported nanoparticles is presented. In the first part of this
review the basic theoretical concepts governing the shape of crystals are given. The validity …

The size distribution of self-assembled heteroepitaxial islands is critical to their application
as quantum dots in novel devices. In situ, real time UHV transmission electron microscopy …

We observe in situ the vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth of Si nanowires, in UHV-CVD using
Au catalyst. The nanowire sidewalls exhibit periodic sawtooth faceting, reflecting an …

Many recent advances in microelectronics would not have been possible without the
development of strain induced nanodevices and bandgap engineering, in particular …

We examine individual Si nanowires grown by the vapor-liquid-solid mechanism, using real-
time in situ ultra high vacuum transmission electron microscopy. By directly observing Au …

We measured the nucleation and growth kinetics of solid silicon (Si) from liquid gold-silicon
(AuSi) catalyst particles as the Si supersaturation increased, which is the first step of the …

Wulff constructions are a powerful tool to predict the shape of nanoparticles, which strongly
influences their performance in catalysis, sensing, and surface-enhanced spectroscopies …

The latest generation of environmental transmission electron microscopes incorporates
aberration correctors and monochromators, allowing studies of chemical reactions and …