On 2014 Nov 17, Raphael Levy commented:

Comments available at my blog, authored by 1) Mathias Brust, Liverpool, 2) Quanmin Guo, Birmingham and, 3) Philip Moriarty, Nottingham.

A detailed analysis of this article, and more broadly of this body of work is published today in PloS One by Stirling et al; from the abstract: “through a combination of an exhaustive re-analysis of the original data with new experimental measurements of a simple control sample comprising entirely unfunctionalised particles, we conclusively show that all of the STM evidence for striped nanoparticles published to date can instead be explained by a combination of well-known instrumental artefacts, strong observer bias, and/or improper data acquisition/analysis protocols.”

On 2014 Nov 17, Raphael Levy commented:

Comments available at my blog, authored by 1) Mathias Brust, Liverpool, 2) Quanmin Guo, Birmingham and, 3) Philip Moriarty, Nottingham.

A detailed analysis of this article, and more broadly of this body of work is published today in PloS One by Stirling et al; from the abstract: “through a combination of an exhaustive re-analysis of the original data with new experimental measurements of a simple control sample comprising entirely unfunctionalised particles, we conclusively show that all of the STM evidence for striped nanoparticles published to date can instead be explained by a combination of well-known instrumental artefacts, strong observer bias, and/or improper data acquisition/analysis protocols.”