Ihli, J; Green, DC; Lynch, C; Holden, MA; Lee, PA; Zhang, S; Robinson, IK; ... Meldrum, FC; + view all Ihli, J; Green, DC; Lynch, C; Holden, MA; Lee, PA; Zhang, S; Robinson, IK; Webb, SED; Meldrum, FC; - view fewer (2019) Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals Shape and Distribution of Dislocations in Single-Crystal Nanocomposites. Angewandte Chemie International Edition , 58 (48) pp. 17328-17334. 10.1002/anie.201905293.

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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.

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