Center for Materials Crystallography, Department of Chemistry and iNANO, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus (Denmark).
Abstract:
Supercritical growth: The formation and evolution of ceria nanoparticles during hydrothermal synthesis was investigated by in?situ total scattering and powder diffraction. The nucleation of pristine crystalline ceria nanoparticles originated from previously unknown cerium dimer complexes. The nanoparticle growth was highly accelerated under supercritical conditions.