Tuning the structure and habit of iron oxide mesocrystals

Wetterskog, Erik; Klapper, Alice; Disch, Sabrina; Josten, Elisabeth; Hermann, Raphaël P.; Rücker, Ulrich; Brückel, Thomas; Bergström, Lennart; Salazar-Alvarez, German

doi:10.1039/C6NR03776C

Title: Tuning the structure and habit of iron oxide mesocrystals

Journal Article · Mon Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Nanoscale

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/C6NR03776C· OSTI ID:1319205

Wetterskog, Erik ^[1]; Klapper, Alice ^[2]; Disch, Sabrina ^[3]; Josten, Elisabeth ^[4]; Hermann, Raphaël P. ^[5]; Rücker, Ulrich ^[2]; Brückel, Thomas ^[2]; Bergström, Lennart ^[6]; Salazar-Alvarez, German ^[6]

Stockholm Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Materials and Environmental Chemistry; Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Angstrom Lab., Dept. of Engineering Sciences
Forschungszentrum Julich (Germany). Juelich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS), Peter Grunberg Inst. PGI, JARA-FIT
Univ. zu Koln (Germany). Dept. of Chemistry
Forschungszentrum Julich (Germany). Juelich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS), Peter Grunberg Inst. PGI, JARA-FIT; Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden (Germany). Inst. of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research
Forschungszentrum Julich (Germany). Juelich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS), Peter Grunberg Inst. PGI, JARA-FIT; Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science & Technology Division
Stockholm Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Materials and Environmental Chemistry

A precise control over the meso- and microstructure of ordered and aligned nanoparticle assemblies, i.e., mesocrystals, is essential in the quest for exploiting the collective material properties for potential applications. In this work, we produced evaporation-induced self-assembled mesocrystals with different mesostructures and crystal habits based on iron oxide nanocubes by varying the nanocube size and shape and by applying magnetic fields. A full 3D characterization of the mesocrystals was performed using image analysis, high-resolution scanning electron microscopy and Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering (GISAXS). This enabled the structural determination of e.g. multi-domain mesocrystals with complex crystal habits and the quantification of interparticle distances with sub-nm precision. Mesocrystals of small nanocubes (l = 8.6 12.6 nm) are isostructural with a body centred tetragonal (bct ) lattice whereas assemblies of the largest nanocubes in this study (l = 13.6 nm) additionally form a simple cubic (sc) lattice. The mesocrystal habit can be tuned from a square, hexagonal to star-like and pillar shapes depending on the particle size and shape and the strength of the applied magnetic field. Finally, we outline a qualitative phase diagram of the evaporation-induced self-assembled superparamagnetic iron oxide nanocube mesocrystals based on nanocube edge length and magnetic field strength.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; FP7- NMP-604448; PIEF-GA-2011- 298918; DI 1788/2-1

OSTI ID:: 1319205

Journal Information:: Nanoscale, Vol. 8, Issue 34; ISSN 2040-3364

Publisher:: Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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