Systematic Mapping of Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices: The Role of Topology in Phase Selection

Coropceanu, Igor; Boles, Michael A.; Talapin, Dmitri V.

doi:10.1021/jacs.8b12539

Title: Systematic Mapping of Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices: The Role of Topology in Phase Selection

Journal Article · Thu Mar 14 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b12539· OSTI ID:1559470

^[1]; Boles, Michael A. ^[1];

^[2]

Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

The self-assembly of two sizes of spherical nanocrystals has revealed a surprisingly diverse library of structures. To date, at least 15 distinct binary nanocrystal superlattice (BNSL) structures have been identified. The stability of these binary phases cannot be fully explained using the traditional conceptual framework treating the assembly process as entropy-driven crystallization of rigid spherical particles. Such deviation from hard sphere behavior may be explained by the soft and deformable layer of ligands that envelops the nanocrystals, which contributes significantly to the overall size and shape of assembling particles. In this work, we describe a set of experiments designed to elucidate the role of the ligand corona in shaping the thermodynamics and kinetics of BNSL assembly. Using hydrocarbon-capped Au and PbS nanocrystals as a model binary system, we systematically tuned the core radius (R) and ligand chain length (L) of particles and subsequently assembled them into binary superlattices. The resulting database of binary structures enabled a detailed analysis of the role of effective nanocrystal size ratio, as well as softness expressed as L/R, in directing the assembly of binary structures. This catalog of superlattices allowed us to not only study the frequency of different phases but to also systematically measure the geometric parameters of the BNSLs. Furthermore, this analysis allowed us to evaluate new theoretical models treating the cocrystallization of deformable spheres and to formulate new hypotheses about the factors affecting the nucleation and growth of the binary superlattices. Among other insights, our results suggest that the relative abundance of the binary phases observed may be explained not only by considerations of thermodynamic stability, but also by a postulated preordering of the binary fluid into local structures with icosahedral or polytetrahedral symmetry prior to nucleation.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1559470

Journal Information:: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 141, Issue 14; ISSN 0002-7863

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 33 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (39)

Phase behaviour of concentrated suspensions of nearly hard colloidal spheres Pusey, P. N.; van Megen, W. Nature, Vol. 320, Issue 6060 https://doi.org/10.1038/320340a0	journal	March 1986
Superlattice formation in binary mixtures of hard-sphere colloids Bartlett, P.; Ottewill, R. H.; Pusey, P. N. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 68, Issue 25 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.3801	journal	June 1992
Structural diversity in binary nanoparticle superlattices Shevchenko, Elena V.; Talapin, Dmitri V.; Kotov, Nicholas A. Nature, Vol. 439, Issue 7072, p. 55-59 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04414	journal	January 2006
Ordered Surface Structuring of Spherical Colloids with Binary Nanoparticle Superlattices Meder, Fabian; Thomas, Steffi S.; Bollhorst, Tobias Nano Letters, Vol. 18, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00173	journal	March 2018
Soft Skyrmions, Spontaneous Valence and Selection Rules in Nanoparticle Superlattices Travesset, Alex ACS Nano, Vol. 11, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b02219	journal	May 2017
On the Phase Behavior of Binary Mixtures of Nanoparticles Ben-Simon, Avi; Eshet, Hagai; Rabani, Eran ACS Nano, Vol. 7, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1021/nn302712h	journal	January 2013
Binary nanoparticle superlattices of soft-particle systems Travesset, Alex Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 112, Issue 31 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504677112	journal	July 2015
Many-Body Effects in Nanocrystal Superlattices: Departure from Sphere Packing Explains Stability of Binary Phases Boles, Michael A.; Talapin, Dmitri V. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b00839	journal	March 2015
Frank–Kasper, quasicrystalline and related phases in liquid crystals Ungar, Goran; Zeng, Xiangbing Soft Matter, Vol. 1, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1039/b502443a	journal	January 2005
Discovery of a Frank-Kasper Phase in Sphere-Forming Block Copolymer Melts Lee, S.; Bluemle, M. J.; Bates, F. S. Science, Vol. 330, Issue 6002 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1195552	journal	October 2010
Stable Frank–Kasper phases of self-assembled, soft matter spheres Reddy, Abhiram; Buckley, Michael B.; Arora, Akash Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, Issue 41 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1809655115	journal	September 2018
Topological structure prediction in binary nanoparticle superlattices Travesset, A. Soft Matter, Vol. 13, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1039/C6SM00713A	journal	January 2017
Drying-mediated self-assembly of nanoparticles Rabani, Eran; Reichman, David R.; Geissler, Phillip L. Nature, Vol. 426, Issue 6964 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02087	journal	November 2003
Theory of phase-ordering kinetics Bray, A. J. Advances in Physics, Vol. 43, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1080/00018739400101505	journal	June 1994
Binary nanocrystal superlattice membranes self-assembled at the liquid–air interface Dong, Angang; Chen, Jun; Vora, Patrick M. Nature, Vol. 466, Issue 7305 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09188	journal	July 2010
Capping Ligand Vortices as “Atomic Orbitals” in Nanocrystal Self-Assembly Waltmann, Curt; Horst, Nathan; Travesset, Alex ACS Nano, Vol. 11, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b05694	journal	September 2017
Colloidal Binary Supracrystals with Tunable Structural Lattices Wang, Peng-peng; Qiao, Qiao; Zhu, Yimei Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 140, Issue 29 https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b05643	journal	July 2018
A computer simulation investigation into the stability of the AB ₂ superlattice in a binary hard sphere system Eldridge, M. D.; Madden, P. A.; Frenkel, D. Molecular Physics, Vol. 80, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1080/00268979300102811	journal	November 1993
Substitutionally ordered solid solutions of hard spheres Cottin, X.; Monson, P. A. The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 102, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.469209	journal	February 1995
Close-packed structures of spheres of two different sizes II. The packing densities of likely arrangements Murray, M. J.; Sanders, J. V. Philosophical Magazine A, Vol. 42, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1080/01418618008239380	journal	December 1980
Stability of LS and LS2 crystal structures in binary mixtures of hard and charged spheres Hynninen, A. -P.; Filion, L.; Dijkstra, M. The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 131, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3182724	journal	August 2009
Prediction of binary nanoparticle superlattices from soft potentials Horst, Nathan; Travesset, Alex The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 144, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4939238	journal	January 2016
Phase diagram of power law and Lennard-Jones systems: Crystal phases Travesset, Alex The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 141, Issue 16 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4898371	journal	October 2014
Formation of a crystal nucleus from liquid Kawasaki, T.; Tanaka, H. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 107, Issue 32 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1001040107	journal	July 2010
Observation of five-fold local symmetry in liquid lead Reichert, H.; Klein, O.; Dosch, H. Nature, Vol. 408, Issue 6814 https://doi.org/10.1038/35048537	journal	December 2000
Structural consequences of the range of the interatomic potential A menagerie of clusters Doye, Jonathan P. K.; Wales, David J. Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, Vol. 93, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1039/a706221d	journal	January 1997
Local order in a supercooled colloidal fluid observed by confocal microscopy Gasser, U.; Schofield, Andrew; Weitz, D. A. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 15, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/15/1/351	journal	December 2002
Many Body Effects and Icosahedral Order in Superlattice Self-Assembly Waltmann, Tommy; Waltmann, Curt; Horst, Nathan Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 140, Issue 26 https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b03895	journal	June 2018
Order, frustration, and defects in liquids and glasses Nelson, David R. Physical Review B, Vol. 28, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.28.5515	journal	November 1983
Symmetry, Landau theory and polytope models of glass Nelson, David R.; Widom, Michael Nuclear Physics B, Vol. 240, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(84)90281-5	journal	August 1984
Colloidal matter: Packing, geometry, and entropy Manoharan, V. N. Science, Vol. 349, Issue 6251 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1253751	journal	August 2015
Link between liquid structure and the nucleation barrier for icosahedral quasicrystal, polytetrahedral, and simple crystalline phases in $Ti − Zr − Ni$ alloys: Verification of Frank’s hypothesis Lee, G. W.; Gangopadhyay, A. K.; Croat, T. K. Physical Review B, Vol. 72, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.72.174107	journal	November 2005
Nanoparticle Clusters with Lennard-Jones Geometries Lacava, Johann; Born, Philip; Kraus, Tobias Nano Letters, Vol. 12, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1021/nl3013659	journal	May 2012
Entropy-driven formation of large icosahedral colloidal clusters by spherical confinement de Nijs, Bart; Dussi, Simone; Smallenburg, Frank Nature Materials, Vol. 14, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4072	journal	August 2014
Formation of a dodecagonal quasicrystalline phase in a simple monatomic liquid Dzugutov, Mikhail Physical Review Letters, Vol. 70, Issue 19 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.2924	journal	May 1993
Giant Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Lattice Ungar, G. Science, Vol. 299, Issue 5610 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1078849	journal	February 2003
Supramolecular dendritic liquid quasicrystals Zeng, Xiangbing; Ungar, Goran; Liu, Yongsong Nature, Vol. 428, Issue 6979 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02368	journal	March 2004
Micellar Cubic Phases and Their Structural Relationships: The Nonionic Surfactant System C ₁₂ EO ₁₂ /Water Sakya, P.; Seddon, J. M.; Templer, R. H. Langmuir, Vol. 13, Issue 14 https://doi.org/10.1021/la9701844	journal	July 1997
Sphericity and symmetry breaking in the formation of Frank–Kasper phases from one component materials Lee, Sangwoo; Leighton, Chris; Bates, Frank S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 111, Issue 50 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1408678111	journal	November 2014

Cited By (1)

Spontaneous Crystallization in Systems of Binary Hard Sphere Colloids Bommineni, Praveen K.; Klement, Marco; Engel, Michael Physical Review Letters, Vol. 124, Issue 21 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.218003	journal	May 2020

Similar Records

Structural diversity in binary superlattices self-assembled from polymer-grafted nanocrystals

Journal Article · Wed Dec 02 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Nature Communications · OSTI ID:1559470

Ye, Xingchen; Zhu, Chenhui; Ercius, Peter; +7 more

Crystallization of binary nanocrystal superlattices and the relevance of short-range attraction

Journal Article · Thu Oct 12 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Nature Synthesis · OSTI ID:1559470

Marino, Emanuele; LaCour, R. Allen; Moore, Timothy C.; +11 more

Directional Carrier Transfer in Strongly Coupled Binary Nanocrystal Superlattice Films Formed by Assembly and in Situ Ligand Exchange at a Liquid–Air Interface

Journal Article · Thu Feb 16 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Journal of Physical Chemistry. C · OSTI ID:1559470

Wu, Yaoting; Li, Siming; Gogotsi, Natalie; +5 more

Related Subjects

37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Title: Systematic Mapping of Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices: The Role of Topology in Phase Selection

Citation Formats

References (39)

Cited By (1)

Similar Records

Related Subjects