Figure 1. In situ annealing sequence.
(a) The annealing sequence for in situ experiments, plotted as the thermal annealing temperature with respect to time. The specific annealing conditions for the captured HAADF-STEM images shown in Fig. 2 are labelled with red diamonds on this plot. (b–f) Low-magnification HAADF-STEM images of Pt3Co NPs supported on carbon black annealed at different temperatures. No obvious NP coalescence was observed until a temperature of 600 °C was reached, even for overlapping particles (shown by arrows) at RT. Scale bar, 50 nm.