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The structures of unsupported ultrafine Cu particles produced by the inert-gas-aggregation technique, have been studied by 100 keV electron diffraction. Model diffraction patterns have been fitted to the data, using a simulated annealing scheme, The results show the coexistence of icosahedra and decahedra, below ~ 4 nm, and agree with recent molecular dynamics calculations. A slight expansion of the mean Cu-Cu distance is found.
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Reinhard, D., Berthoud, P., Ugarte, D., Hall, B.D., Monot, R. (1995). Free clusters of copper atoms: a study of structural size effects. In: Anagnostatos, G.S., von Oertzen, W. (eds) Atomic and Nuclear Clusters. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79696-8_29
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