The researchers used an ultrastable, variable - temperature stage in an aberration - corrected
scanning transmission
electron microscope to subject an array of size - selected gold nanoparticles (or clusters) to temperatures as high as 500 °C
while imaging them with atomic resolution.
The research, a 3 - way collaboration between Birmingham, Swansea and Genoa, used an ultrastable, variable - temperature stage in an aberration - corrected
scanning transmission
electron microscope to subject an array of size - selected Au nanoparticles (or clusters) to temperatures as high as 500 °C
while imaging them with atomic resolution.