Effects of catalyst droplets on wire growth and the resulting branched structures during VLS growth

Song, Miao; Zhang, Youtian; Chun, Jaehun; Hu, Shenyang; Tang, Ming; Li, Dongsheng

doi:10.1039/C9NR10695B

Title: Effects of catalyst droplets on wire growth and the resulting branched structures during VLS growth

Journal Article · Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Nanoscale

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NR10695B· OSTI ID:1631315

Song, Miao ^[1]; Zhang, Youtian ^[2];

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Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)

Vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) method is vastly employed to grow hierarchical structures with unique properties. However, key questions remain, such as what controls the branched structures and what the roles of catalyst droplet size are during the growth. Here, an in-depth understanding of the kinetics of the nucleation, growth, and subsequent coalescence processes of Bi liquid catalyst droplets is provided by direct observation of PbSe branched wire growth in an environmental transmission electron microscope. This brings a kinetic control of the branch density by varying the parameters, such as temperature. In addition, the dependence of wire growth rate on the catalyst droplet size is revealed, i.e., the smaller the catalyst size the larger the wire growth rate, unlike the wire growth controlled by Gibbs-Thomson effect, possibly due to different mass transport pathways and atomic surface diffusion. These results extend the fundamental understanding of the VLS growth mechanism of branched structures and benefit the structure design of hierarchical materials with tailored properties.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830; KC0203020:67037; SC0019111

OSTI ID:: 1631315

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1606610

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-148368; NANOHL

Journal Information:: Nanoscale, Vol. 12, Issue 14; ISSN 2040-3364

Publisher:: Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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