Seed-Mediated Growth of Gold Nanocrystals: Changes to the Crystallinity or Morphology as Induced by the Treatment of Seeds with a Sulfur Species
Abstract
We report our observation of changes to the crystallinity or morphology during seed-mediated growth of Au nanocrystals. When single-crystal Au seeds with a spherical or rod-like shape were treated with a chemical species such as S₂O₃²⁻ ions, twin defects were developed during the growth process to generate multiply twinned nanostructures. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis indicated that the S₂O₃²⁻ ions were chemisorbed on the surfaces of the seeds during the treatment. The chemisorbed S₂O₃²⁻ ions somehow influenced the crystallization of Au atoms added onto the surface during a growth process, leading to the formation of twin defects. In contrast to the spherical and rod-like Au seeds, the single-crystal structure was retained to generate a concave morphology when single-crystal Au seeds with a cubic or octahedral shape were used for a similar treatment and then seed-mediated growth. The different outcomes are likely related to the difference in spatial distribution of S₂O₃²⁻ ions chemisorbed on the surface of a seed. This approach based on surface modification is potentially extendable to other noble metals for engineering the crystallinity and morphology of nanocrystals formed via seed-mediated growth.
- Authors:
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- Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States) Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering; Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States); Wuhan Univ. (China). College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. State Key Lab. of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Dept.
- Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States) Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering; Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States)
- Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering; Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1201341
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-107873-2015-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 1520-6106; R&D Project: MA015MACA; KC0201010
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC00112704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 118; Journal Issue: 49; Journal ID: ISSN 1520-6106
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; crystallinity; gold; thiosulfate ions; seed-mediated growth; twin defects
Citation Formats
Zheng, Yiqun, Luo, Ming, Tao, Jing, Peng, Hsin-Chieh, Wan, Dehui, Zhu, Yimei, and Xia, Younan. Seed-Mediated Growth of Gold Nanocrystals: Changes to the Crystallinity or Morphology as Induced by the Treatment of Seeds with a Sulfur Species. United States: N. p., 2014.
Web. doi:10.1021/jp506328p.
Zheng, Yiqun, Luo, Ming, Tao, Jing, Peng, Hsin-Chieh, Wan, Dehui, Zhu, Yimei, & Xia, Younan. Seed-Mediated Growth of Gold Nanocrystals: Changes to the Crystallinity or Morphology as Induced by the Treatment of Seeds with a Sulfur Species. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp506328p
Zheng, Yiqun, Luo, Ming, Tao, Jing, Peng, Hsin-Chieh, Wan, Dehui, Zhu, Yimei, and Xia, Younan. Thu .
"Seed-Mediated Growth of Gold Nanocrystals: Changes to the Crystallinity or Morphology as Induced by the Treatment of Seeds with a Sulfur Species". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp506328p. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1201341.
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title = {Seed-Mediated Growth of Gold Nanocrystals: Changes to the Crystallinity or Morphology as Induced by the Treatment of Seeds with a Sulfur Species},
author = {Zheng, Yiqun and Luo, Ming and Tao, Jing and Peng, Hsin-Chieh and Wan, Dehui and Zhu, Yimei and Xia, Younan},
abstractNote = {We report our observation of changes to the crystallinity or morphology during seed-mediated growth of Au nanocrystals. When single-crystal Au seeds with a spherical or rod-like shape were treated with a chemical species such as S₂O₃²⁻ ions, twin defects were developed during the growth process to generate multiply twinned nanostructures. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis indicated that the S₂O₃²⁻ ions were chemisorbed on the surfaces of the seeds during the treatment. The chemisorbed S₂O₃²⁻ ions somehow influenced the crystallization of Au atoms added onto the surface during a growth process, leading to the formation of twin defects. In contrast to the spherical and rod-like Au seeds, the single-crystal structure was retained to generate a concave morphology when single-crystal Au seeds with a cubic or octahedral shape were used for a similar treatment and then seed-mediated growth. The different outcomes are likely related to the difference in spatial distribution of S₂O₃²⁻ ions chemisorbed on the surface of a seed. This approach based on surface modification is potentially extendable to other noble metals for engineering the crystallinity and morphology of nanocrystals formed via seed-mediated growth.},
doi = {10.1021/jp506328p},
journal = {Journal of Physical Chemistry. B},
number = 49,
volume = 118,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 EST 2014}
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