Lattice Strain Measurement of Core@Shell Electrocatalysts with 4D Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Nanobeam Electron Diffraction

Mukherjee, Debangshu; Gamler, Jocelyn T.L.; Skrabalak, Sara; Unocic, Raymond

doi:10.1021/acscatal.0c00224

Title: Lattice Strain Measurement of Core@Shell Electrocatalysts with 4D Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Nanobeam Electron Diffraction

Journal Article · Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · ACS Catalysis

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c00224· OSTI ID:1616820

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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States)

Strain engineering enables the direct modification of atomic bonding and is currently an active area of research aimed at improving electrocatalytic activity. However, directly measuring the lattice strain of individual catalyst nanoparticles is challenging, especially at the scale of a single unit cell. In this study, we quantitatively map the strain present in rhodium@platinum (core@shell) nanocube electrocatalysts using conventional aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and the recently developed technique of 4D-STEM nanobeam electron diffraction. We demonstrate that 4D-STEM combined with data preconditioning allows for quantitative lattice strain mapping with subpicometer precision and without the influence of scan distortions. When combined with multivariate curve resolution, 4D-STEM allows us to distinguish the nanocube core from the shell and to quantify the unit cell size as a function of distance from the core–shell interface. Our results demonstrate that 4D-STEM has significant precision and accuracy advantages in strain metrology of catalyst materials compared to aberration-corrected STEM imaging and is beneficial for extracting information about the evolution of strain in catalyst nanoparticles.

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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; SC0018961

OSTI ID:: 1616820

Journal Information:: ACS Catalysis, Vol. 10, Issue 10; ISSN 2155-5435

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