Nakashima, P.N.H.; Peng, D.; Tan, X.; Mortazavi, A.N.; Liu, T.; Etheridge, J.; Bourgeois, L.; Clarke, D.R. Towards Mapping Chemical Bonds in Nanostructured Materials. Preprints2021, 2021060075. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202106.0075.v1
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Nakashima, P.N.H., Peng, D., Tan, X., Mortazavi, A.N., Liu, T., Etheridge, J., Bourgeois, L., & Clarke, D.R. (2021). Towards Mapping Chemical Bonds in Nanostructured Materials. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202106.0075.v1
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Nakashima, P.N.H., Laure Bourgeois and David R. Clarke. 2021 "Towards Mapping Chemical Bonds in Nanostructured Materials" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202106.0075.v1
Abstract
We introduce a number of techniques in quantitative convergent-beam electron diffraction under development by our group and discuss the basis for measuring interatomic electrostatic potentials (and therefore also electron densities), localised at sub-nanometre scales, with sufficient accuracy and precision to map chemical bonds in and around nanostructures in nanostructured materials. This has never before been possible as experimental measurements of bonding in quantum crystallography have hitherto always been restricted to homogeneous single-phased crystals.
Keywords
Chemical bonding; nanostructured materials; electron diffraction; quantum crystallography; QCBED; Density Functional Theory; QCBED-DFT
Subject
Physical Sciences, Condensed Matter Physics
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