Possible morphologies of Au Nanoparticles
Twinned truncated octahedron
Ideal structure Background Colour:
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This shape is a twinned structure of the truncated octahedron. Because of the complicated construction, this kind of particles cannot be found in small size fcc structures. Instead, hexagonal close-packed fits.
These hypothetical structures are presented for comparison.
