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Letter

Nature Materials 7, 120–124 (1 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/nmat2083

Effects of elastic anisotropy on strain distributions in decahedral gold nanoparticles

Craig L. Johnson , Etienne Snoeck , Manex Ezcurdia , Benito Rodr|[iacute]|guez-Gonz|[aacute]|lez , Isabel Pastoriza-Santos , Luis M. Liz-Marz|[aacute]|n & Martin J. H|[yuml]|tch

Metallic nanoparticles exhibit exceptional optoelectronic properties with applications in plasmonics, biosensing and nanomedicine. Recently, new synthesis techniques have enabled precise control over the sizes and shapes of metal nanoparticles, occasionally leading to morphologies that cannot be properly characterized using standard techniques.