Reacting the Unreactive: A Toolbox of Low-Temperature Solution-Mediated Reactions for the Facile Interconversion of Nanocrystalline Intermetallic Compounds
摘要:
Metallurgical materials, including intermetallic compounds, are notoriously inert toward low-temperature reactivity. However, as nanocrystals, their reactivity is significantly enhanced. Here we show that intermetallic PtSn and AuCu nanocrystals can be converted, in solution at low temperatures, into derivative intermetallics. For example, PtSn can be converted into PtSn2 and Pt3Sn by reaction with SnCl2 and K2PtCl6, respectively. The reactions are also reversible, for example, the sequences PtSn --> PtSn2 --> PtSn and PtSn --> Pt3Sn --> PtSn are all readily achievable. The strategy also allows nanocrystalline AuCu to be successfully converted into AuCu3 via reaction with Cu(C2H3O2)2.H2O, suggesting that this approach may be general.
Synthesis of Atomically Ordered AuCu and AuCu3 Nanocrystals from Bimetallic Nanoparticle Precursors
摘要:
A new multistep approach was developed to synthesize atomically ordered intermetallic nanocrystals, using AuCu and AuCu3 as model systems. Bimetallic nanoparticle aggregates are used as precursors to atomically ordered nanocrystals, both to precisely define the stoichiometry of the final product and to ensure that atomic-scale diffusion distances lower the reaction temperatures to prevent sintering. In a typical synthesis, PVP-stabilized Au-Cu nanoparticle aggregates synthesized by borohydride reduction are collected by centrifugation and annealed in powder form. At temperatures below 175 degreesC, diffusion of Cu into Au occurs, and the atomically disordered solid solution CuxAu1-x exists. For AuCu, nucleation occurs by 200 degreesC, and atomically ordered AuCu exists between 200 and 400 degreesC. For AuCu3, an AuCu intermediate nucleates at 200 degreesC, and further diffusion of Cu into the AuCu intermediate at 300 degreesC nucleates AuCu3. Atomically ordered AuCu and AuCu3 nanocrystals can be redispersed as discrete colloids in solution after annealing between 200 and 300 degreesC.
Boosting the catalysis of AuCuMo for oxygen reduction: Important roles of an optimized electronic structure and surface electrochemical stability
作者:Hongyu Gong、Ruizhi Yang、Bo Yang、Fan Li、Ling Li
DOI:10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.155552
日期:2020.10
Abstract The slow kinetics of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) remains a great challenge in many energy storage and conversion devices, such as alkaline fuel cells and metal-air batteries. Herein, a self-supported Au-based alloy (AuCuMo) was successfully synthesized by a one-pot hydrothermal method. By combining Cu and Mo, the electronic structure of Au was finely tuned. Furthermore, the electrochemical
Transition-Metal-Ions-Induced Coalescence: Stitching Au Nanoclusters into Tubular Au-Based Nanocomposites
作者:Yao Zhou、Hua Chun Zeng
DOI:10.1002/smll.201503881
日期:2016.5
Alternatively, the above transitionmetal ions‐induced transformations can also be carried out after coating the AuNC assemblages with a layer of mesoporous SiO2 (mSiO2), giving rise to many mSiO2‐coated Au‐based HNRs. Onto the formed AuPd0.18 alloy HNRs, furthermore, a range of transitionmetaloxides such as TiO2, Co3O4, and Cu2O nanocrystals can be deposited easily to prepare metal oxide–AuPd0.18 HNRs
(at%) alloy during the disorder↔order phase transitions of samples with different thermo-mechanical histories has been studied. It was found that the rate of atomic ordering of the Cu-56Au alloy was much lower compared to the equiatomic Cu-50Au alloy that had been well studied earlier. It was shown that the deformation of the quenched alloy slowed down the rate of atomic ordering. It was established that
Low-Temperature Metallic Alloying of Copper and Silver Nanoparticles with Gold Nanoparticles through Digestive Ripening
作者:Alexander B. Smetana、Kenneth J. Klabunde、Christopher M. Sorensen、Audaldo A. Ponce、Benny Mwale
DOI:10.1021/jp0539932
日期:2006.2.1
of alloy particles. The particles of 5.6+/-0.5 nm diameter for Au/Ag and 4.8+/-1.0 nm diameter for Cu/Au undergo facile self-assembly to form 3-D superlattice ordering. It appears that during this digestive ripening process, the organic ligands display an extraordinary chemistry in which atom transfer between atomically pure copper, silver, and gold metal nanoparticles yields monodisperse alloy nanoparticles
Initial oxidation kinetics and energetics of Cu0.5Au0.5 (001) film investigated by in situ ultrahigh vacuum transmission electron microscopy
作者:Liang Wang、Guang-Wen Zhou、Jeffrey A. Eastman、Judith C. Yang
DOI:10.1016/j.susc.2006.03.044
日期:2006.6
energetics of Cu2Onucleation for Cu and Cu0.5Au0.5 oxidation was compared. Cu0.5Au0.5 oxidation has lower nucleation activation energy due to the reduced mismatch strain between Cu2O and Cu0.5Au0.5 films. On the other hand, the reaction kinetics for Cu0.5Au0.5 alloy oxidation is slower due to the higher diffusion activation energy of Cu. � 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.