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Solving complex nanostructures with ptychographic atomic electron tomography

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  • Philipp M. Pelz

    (Friedrich Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, IZNF
    University of California Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Sinéad M. Griffin

    (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Scott Stonemeyer

    (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at the University of California at Berkeley
    University of California at Berkeley
    University of California at Berkeley)

  • Derek Popple

    (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at the University of California at Berkeley
    University of California at Berkeley
    University of California at Berkeley)

  • Hannah DeVyldere

    (University of California Berkeley)

  • Peter Ercius

    (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Alex Zettl

    (University of California Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at the University of California at Berkeley
    University of California at Berkeley)

  • Mary C. Scott

    (University of California Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Colin Ophus

    (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Abstract

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is essential for determining atomic scale structures in structural biology and materials science. In structural biology, three-dimensional structures of proteins are routinely determined from thousands of identical particles using phase-contrast TEM. In materials science, three-dimensional atomic structures of complex nanomaterials have been determined using atomic electron tomography (AET). However, neither of these methods can determine the three-dimensional atomic structure of heterogeneous nanomaterials containing light elements. Here, we perform ptychographic electron tomography from 34.5 million diffraction patterns to reconstruct an atomic resolution tilt series of a double wall-carbon nanotube (DW-CNT) encapsulating a complex ZrTe sandwich structure. Class averaging the resulting tilt series images and subpixel localization of the atomic peaks reveals a Zr11Te50 structure containing a previously unobserved ZrTe2 phase in the core. The experimental realization of atomic resolution ptychographic electron tomography will allow for the structural determination of a wide range of beam-sensitive nanomaterials containing light elements.

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  • Philipp M. Pelz & Sinéad M. Griffin & Scott Stonemeyer & Derek Popple & Hannah DeVyldere & Peter Ercius & Alex Zettl & Mary C. Scott & Colin Ophus, 2023. "Solving complex nanostructures with ptychographic atomic electron tomography," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-43634-z
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43634-z
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