Recently, Litao Sun and his team of SEU, developed a kind of Situ-Transmission electron microscopy, and with this equipment, they observed sub-10-nm Ag particles' liquid behaviour at room temperature, it was the first time in the world wide.The paper titled with “Liquid-like pseudoelasticity of sub-10-nm crystalline silver particles” will be published in new issue of "Nature Materials", as its cover article(IF 36.4).
Paper link : http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat4105.html
Oct 27th, 2014