S. Giorgio et C. Henry, BIMETALLIC PDCU AND PDCU3 PARTICLES PREPARED BY WET IMPREGNATION-HRTEM - STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE AND THE INTERFACE WITH THE MGO SUBSTRATE, Microscopy microanalysis microstructures, 8(6), 1997, pp. 379-391
Bimetallic particles of PdCu and PdCu3 are prepared by decomposition o
f organometallic compounds on MgO micro-cubes. During the annealing be
tween 350 and 400 degrees C, in reducing atmosphere, PdCu particles gr
ow with the fee structure, without defined shape. The particles epitax
ially (001) oriented on MgO are dilated and accommodated to the substr
ate. After annealing at 450 degrees C, the particles adopt the beta or
dered structure. The particles are limited at the edges by (100) and (
110) faces. Most of them are oriented (001) on MgO with [110]PdCu para
llel to [100]MgO, which corresponds to a perfect accommodation of the
lattices without deformation compared to the bulk, despite of the redu
ction in H-2. The PdCu3 particles smaller than about 10 nm were found
with the alpha ordered structure, without periodic anti-phase boundari
es.