Figure 3
From: Structural insights into metal-metalloid glasses from mass spectrometry
Mechanism of Pd, PdSi and PdSi2 ion formation in the atomic scale. Possible fragmentation sequence in the atomic scale in the presence of ACN. Pd10Si3 icosahedron cluster is selected here to represent Pd80Si20 MSR microstructure. Note that all these steps can happen simultaneously. The current mechanism do not claim the existence of the specific Pd10Si3 cluster as the only possible structure. However, despite of the cluster nuclearity and geometry, these three stable species can be seen in any cluster containing both Pd (blue sphere) and Si (yellow sphere).
