This project was supported by the U.S.Department of Energy(DOE),Office of Science,Office of Basic Energy Sciences(BES),Materials Sciences and Engineering Division under Contract No.DE-AC02-05-CH11231 within the in-situ TEM(KC22ZH)program.Work at the Molecular Foundry was supported by the Office of Science,Office of Basic Energy Sciences,of the U.S.Department of Energy under Contract No.DE-AC02-05CH11231.We acknowledge Gatan Inc.for the advanced K2 IS camera and Dr.Ming Pan and Dr.Cory Czarnik for their help with part of experimental set up in this work.W.J.Z.acknowledges the support from Tianjin University Graduate School International Academic Exchange Fund.M.R.H.was funded by KAUST project under H.M.Z.at UC Berkeley.
The formation of complex hierarchical nanostructures has attracted a lot of attention from both the fundamental science and potential applications point of view.Spherulite structures with radial fibrillar branches hav...
Acknowledgements This work has been supported by the Israel Science Foundation (No. 434/12) and by the National Agency for Research, Development, and Innovation, Hungary under contract OTKA-K-115959.
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