Effect of Chemical Composition on the Nanoscale Ordering Transformations of Physical Mixtures of Pd and Cu Nanoparticles

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(a) TEM image of the as-synthesized Cu nanoparticles (scale bar is 5 nm). (b) TEM image of as-synthesized Pd nanoparticles (scale bar is 5 nm). (c) TEM image of PdCu 1 : 1 nanoparticle mixtures after annealing at 750°C in forming gas (scale bar is 50 nm). (d) TEM image of PdCu 3 : 1 nanoparticle mixtures after annealing at 750°C in forming gas (scale bar is 50 nm).

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