2021/01/12 by Klaus Hermann, Hermann, Klaus E.
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Materials Science · #Coagulation and Flocculation Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2101.04385
openalex publication_date 2021/01/12 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We examine nanoparticles (NPs) forming polyhedral sections of the ideal cubic\nlattice, simple (sc), body centered (bcc), and face centered (fcc) cubic, which\nare confined by facets characterized by densest and second densest h k l\nmonolayers of the lattice. Together with the constraint that the NPs exhibit\nthe same point symmetry as the ideal cubic lattice, i.e. Oh, different types of\ngeneric NPs serve for the definition of general polyhedral cubic NPs. Their\nstructural properties, such as shape, size, and surface facets, are discussed\nin analytical and numerical detail with visualization of characteristic\nexamples. The geometric relationships of the model particles expressed by\ncorresponding formulas and numerical tables can be used to estimate shapes and\nsizes of real compact metal nanoparticles observed by experiment.\n