Dust Effects on Nucleation Kinetics and Nanoparticle Product Size Distributions: Illustrative Case Study of a Prototype Ir(0) n Transition-Metal Nanoparticle Formation System

Özkar, Saim; Finke, Richard G.

doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b01219

Title: Dust Effects on Nucleation Kinetics and Nanoparticle Product Size Distributions: Illustrative Case Study of a Prototype Ir(0) _n Transition-Metal Nanoparticle Formation System

Journal Article · Thu Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Langmuir

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b01219· OSTI ID:1415069

Özkar, Saim ^[1];

^[2]

Department of Chemistry, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, United States

The question is addressed if dust is kinetically important in the nucleation and growth of Ir(0)_n nanoparticles formed from [Bu₄N]₅Na₃(1,5-COD)Ir^I·P₂W₁₅Nb₃O₆₂ (hereafter [(COD)Ir·POM]^8-), reduced by H₂ in propylene carbonate solvent. Following a concise review of the (often neglected) literature addressing dust in nucleation phenomena dating back to the late 1800s, the nucleation and growth kinetics of the [(COD)Ir·POM]^8- precatalyst system are examined for the effects of 0.2 μm microfiltration of the solvent and precatalyst solution, of rinsing the glassware with that microfiltered solvent, of silanizing the glass reaction vessel, for the addition of <0.2 μm γ-Al₂O₃ (inorganic) dust, for the addition of flame-made carbon-based (organic) dust, and as a function of the starting, microfiltered [(COD)Ir·POM^8-] concentration. Efforts to detect dust and its removal by dynamic light scattering and by optical microscopy are also reported. The results yield a list of eight important conclusions, the four most noteworthy of which are (i) that the nucleation apparent rate “constant” k_1obs(bimol) is shown to be slowed by a factor of ~5 to ~7.6, depending on the precise experiment and its conditions, just by the filtration of the precatalyst solution using a 0.20 μm filter and rinsing the glassware surface with 0.20 μm filtered propylene carbonate solvent; (ii) that simply employing a 0.20 μm filtration step narrows the size distribution of the resulting Ir(0)_n nanoparticles by a factor of 2.4 from ±19 to ±8%, a remarkable result; (iii) that the narrower size distribution can be accounted for by the slowed nucleation rate constant, k_1obs(bimol), and by the unchanged autocatalytic growth rate constant, k_2obs(bimol), that is, by the increased ratio of k_2obs(bimol)/k_1obs(bimol) that further separates nucleation from growth in time for filtered vs unfiltered solutions; and (iv) that five lines of evidence indicate that the filterable component of the solution, which has nucleation rate-enhancing and size-dispersion broadening effects, is dust.

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Research Organization:: Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)

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

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OSTI ID:: 1415069

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Journal Information:: Langmuir, Journal Name: Langmuir Vol. 33 Journal Issue: 26; ISSN 0743-7463

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