Image of palladium particle with representation (IMAGE)

University of California - Los Angeles

Image of palladium particle with representation

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Experimental 3D atomic image of a tiny, noncrystalline palladium particle (left), in which the 10-sided pentagonal bipyramid (right) is the most prevalent motif for how atoms pack together; the orange lines represent the pentagonal bipyramid shape.

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Yakun Yuan and John Miao/UCLA

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