Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 16(52), p. 3300-3303, 2016
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc09165a
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We report in situ atomic-scale visualization of the dynamical three-dimensional growth of NiO during initial oxidation of Ni-10at%Cr using environmental transmission electron microscopy. Step-by-step adatom growth mechanism in 3D is observed and change of surface planes of growing oxide islands can be induced by local surface kinetic variations.