Exposing high-energy surfaces by rapid-anneal solid phase epitaxy

Wang, Y.; Song, Y.; Peng, R.; Herklotz, A.; Chisholm, M. F.; Wu, Z. L.; Ward, T. Z.; Weitering, H. H.; Snijders, P. C.

doi:10.1063/1.4992004

Title: Exposing high-energy surfaces by rapid-anneal solid phase epitaxy

Journal Article · Tue Aug 08 00:00:00 UTC 2017 · APL Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4992004 · OSTI ID:1407994

^[1];

^[2];

^[1];

^[2];

^[1];

^[3];

^[3]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science and Technology Division
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Science
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Materials Science and Technology Division; Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

The functional design of nanoscale transition metal oxide heterostructures depends critically on the growth of atomically flat epitaxial thin films. Much of the time, improved functionality is expected for heterostructures and surfaces with orientations that do not have the lowest surface free energy. For example, crystal faces with a high surface free energy, such as rutile (001) planes, frequently exhibit higher catalytic activities but are correspondingly harder to synthesize due to energy-lowering faceting transitions. We propose a broadly applicable rapid-anneal solid phase epitaxial synthesis approach for the creation of atomically flat, high surface free energy oxide heterostructures. We also demonstrate its efficacy via the synthesis of atomically flat, epitaxial RuO₂(001) films with a superior oxygen evolution activity, quantified by their lower onset potential and higher current density, relative to that of more common RuO₂(110) films.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Cite

Export

Save

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

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1407994

Journal Information:: APL Materials, Journal Name: APL Materials Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 5; ISSN 2166-532X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (58)

Controlling Photoactivity in Ultrathin Hematite Films for Solar Water-Splitting Le Formal, Florian; Grätzel, Michael; Sivula, Kevin Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 20, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.200902060	journal	March 2010
Epitaxial Growth and Properties of Doped Transition Metal and Complex Oxide Films Chambers, Scott A. Advanced Materials, Vol. 22, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.200901867	journal	January 2010
Transition Metal Oxides for Organic Electronics: Energetics, Device Physics and Applications Meyer, Jens; Hamwi, Sami; Kröger, Michael Advanced Materials, Vol. 24, Issue 40 https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201201630	journal	August 2012
Strongly Correlated Materials Morosan, Emilia; Natelson, Douglas; Nevidomskyy, Andriy H. Advanced Materials, Vol. 24, Issue 36 https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201202018	journal	August 2012
Solid-Phase Epitaxial Growth of A-Site-Ordered Perovskite Sr _{4− x} Er _x Co ₄ O _{12− δ} : A Room Temperature Ferrimagnetic p-Type Semiconductor Katase, Takayoshi; Takahashi, Hidefumi; Tohei, Tetsuya Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 1, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.201500199	journal	October 2015
Reactions at Surfaces: From Atoms to Complexity (Nobel Lecture) Ertl, Gerhard Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Vol. 47, Issue 19 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200800480	journal	April 2008
The Mechanism of Water Oxidation: From Electrolysis via Homogeneous to Biological Catalysis Dau, Holger; Limberg, Christian; Reier, Tobias ChemCatChem, Vol. 2, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201000126	journal	June 2010
Ligand Effects and Their Impact on Electrocatalytic Processes Exemplified with the Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) on RuO ₂ (110) Exner, Kai S.; Anton, Josef; Jacob, Timo ChemElectroChem, Vol. 2, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.201402430	journal	February 2015
Theoretical study of crystal phase effect in heterogeneous catalysis: Crystal phase effect in heterogeneous catalysis Liu, Jin-Xun; Li, Wei-Xue Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science, Vol. 6, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1002/wcms.1267	journal	June 2016
Springer Handbook of Crystal Growth Dhanaraj, Govindhan; Byrappa, Kullaiah; Prasad, Vishwanath https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74761-1	book	January 2010
Present status of solid phase epitaxy of vacuum-deposited silicon Zotov, A. V.; Korobtsov, V. V. Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 98, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0248(89)90170-x	journal	November 1989
Single crystals as model electrocatalysts Castelli, Piero; Trasatti, Sergio; Pollak, Fred H. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry and Interfacial Electrochemistry, Vol. 210, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0728(86)90325-6	journal	October 1986
Electrochemistry of sub-monolayer silver deposits on single crystal RuO2 (110), (001) and (111) electrodes Hepel, Tadeusz; Pollak, Fred H.; O'grady, William E. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry and Interfacial Electrochemistry, Vol. 236, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0728(87)88034-8	journal	October 1987
Oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions on Ru, RuO 2 , Ir, and IrO 2 thin film electrodes in acidic and alkaline electrolytes: A comparative study on activity and stability Cherevko, Serhiy; Geiger, Simon; Kasian, Olga Catalysis Today, Vol. 262 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2015.08.014	journal	March 2016
Electrolysis of water on oxide surfaces Rossmeisl, J.; Qu, Z. -W.; Zhu, H. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Vol. 607, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2006.11.008	journal	September 2007
Electrocatalysis by oxides — Attempt at a unifying approach Trasatti, Sergio Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry and Interfacial Electrochemistry, Vol. 111, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-0728(80)80084-2	journal	July 1980
Cyclic voltammetry on RuO2 (100), (101), (001) and (110) “as-grown” single-crystal surfaces O'Grady, W. E.; Goel, A. K.; Pollak, F. H. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry and Interfacial Electrochemistry, Vol. 151, Issue 1-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-0728(83)80444-6	journal	August 1983
The surface science of titanium dioxide Diebold, Ulrike Surface Science Reports, Vol. 48, Issue 5-8 https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-5729(02)00100-0	journal	January 2003
Surface Energy as a Descriptor of Catalytic Activity Zhuang, Houlong; Tkalych, Alexander J.; Carter, Emily A. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 120, Issue 41 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b09687	journal	October 2016
2D Electronic Transport with Strong Spin–Orbit Coupling in Bi ^2– Square Net of Y ₂ O ₂ Bi Thin Film Grown by Multilayer Solid-Phase Epitaxy Sei, Ryosuke; Fukumura, Tomoteru; Hasegawa, Tetsuya ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 7, Issue 45 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b07825	journal	November 2015
High-Energy-Surface Engineered Metal Oxide Micro- and Nanocrystallites and Their Applications Kuang, Qin; Wang, Xue; Jiang, Zhiyuan Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 47, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1021/ar400092x	journal	December 2013
Mechanism and Tafel Lines of Electro-Oxidation of Water to Oxygen on RuO ₂ (110) Fang, Ya-Hui; Liu, Zhi-Pan Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 132, Issue 51 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja1069272	journal	December 2010
An Investigation of Thin-Film Ni–Fe Oxide Catalysts for the Electrochemical Evolution of Oxygen Louie, Mary W.; Bell, Alexis T. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 135, Issue 33 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja405351s	journal	August 2013
Efficient Water Oxidation Using Nanostructured α-Nickel-Hydroxide as an Electrocatalyst Gao, Minrui; Sheng, Wenchao; Zhuang, Zhongbin Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 136, Issue 19 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja502128j	journal	May 2014
Benchmarking Hydrogen Evolving Reaction and Oxygen Evolving Reaction Electrocatalysts for Solar Water Splitting Devices McCrory, Charles C. L.; Jung, Suho; Ferrer, Ivonne M. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja510442p	journal	March 2015
Enhancing Perovskite Electrocatalysis through Strain Tuning of the Oxygen Deficiency Petrie, Jonathan R.; Jeen, Hyoungjeen; Barron, Sara C. Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 138, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b03520	journal	June 2016
Water Oxidation at Hematite Photoelectrodes with an Iridium-Based Catalyst Badia-Bou, Laura; Mas-Marza, Elena; Rodenas, Pau The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 117, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1021/jp311983n	journal	February 2013
Transition-Metal Doping of Oxide Nanocrystals for Enhanced Catalytic Oxygen Evolution Jang, Dong Myung; Kwak, In Hye; Kwon, El Lim The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 119, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1021/jp511561k	journal	January 2015
Versatile Model System for Studying Processes Ranging from Heterogeneous to Photocatalysis: Epitaxial RuO ₂ (110) on TiO ₂ (110) He, Yunbin; Langsdorf, Daniel; Li, Lei The Journal of Physical Chemistry C https://doi.org/10.1021/jp5121405	journal	January 2015
Synthesis and Activities of Rutile IrO ₂ and RuO ₂ Nanoparticles for Oxygen Evolution in Acid and Alkaline Solutions Lee, Youngmin; Suntivich, Jin; May, Kevin J. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 3, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1021/jz2016507	journal	January 2012
Orientation-Dependent Oxygen Evolution Activities of Rutile IrO ₂ and RuO ₂ Stoerzinger, Kelsey A.; Qiao, Liang; Biegalski, Michael D. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 5, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1021/jz500610u	journal	April 2014
Surfactant-enabled epitaxy through control of growth mode with chemical boundary conditions Paisley, Elizabeth A.; Losego, Mark. D.; Gaddy, Benjamin E. Nature Communications, Vol. 2, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1470	journal	September 2011
Functional links between stability and reactivity of strontium ruthenate single crystals during oxygen evolution Chang, Seo Hyoung; Danilovic, Nemanja; Chang, Kee-Chul Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5191	journal	June 2014
Dimensionality Control of d-orbital Occupation in Oxide Superlattices Jeong, Da Woon; Choi, Woo Seok; Okamoto, Satoshi Scientific Reports, Vol. 4, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep06124	journal	August 2014
Insight on Tafel slopes from a microkinetic analysis of aqueous electrocatalysis for energy conversion Shinagawa, Tatsuya; Garcia-Esparza, Angel T.; Takanabe, Kazuhiro Scientific Reports, Vol. 5, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep13801	journal	September 2015
Nanomaterials of high surface energy with exceptional properties in catalysis and energy storage Zhou, Zhi-You; Tian, Na; Li, Jun-Tao Chemical Society Reviews, Vol. 40, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1039/c0cs00176g	journal	January 2011
Developments and perspectives of oxide-based catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction Fabbri, E.; Habereder, A.; Waltar, K. Catal. Sci. Technol., Vol. 4, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1039/c4cy00669k	journal	January 2014
Activity–stability relationship in the surface electrochemistry of the oxygen evolution reaction Chang, Seo Hyoung; Connell, Justin G.; Danilovic, Nemanja Faraday Discuss., Vol. 176 https://doi.org/10.1039/c4fd00134f	journal	January 2014
Enhanced electrocatalytic activity via phase transitions in strongly correlated SrRuO ₃ thin films Lee, Sang A.; Oh, Seokjae; Hwang, Jae-Yeol Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 10, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ee00628d	journal	January 2017
Quasi-ideal strontium titanate crystal surfaces through formation of strontium hydroxide Koster, Gertjan; Kropman, Boike L.; Rijnders, Guus J. H. M. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 73, Issue 20 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.122630	journal	November 1998
Stressed multidirectional solid-phase epitaxial growth of Si Rudawski, N. G.; Jones, K. S.; Morarka, S. Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 105, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3091395	journal	April 2009
Universal Ti-rich termination of atomically flat SrTiO3 (001), (110), and (111) surfaces Biswas, A.; Rossen, P. B.; Yang, C. -H. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 98, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3549860	journal	January 2011
Preparation of atomically flat SrTiO ₃ surfaces using a deionized-water leaching and thermal annealing procedure Connell, J. G.; Isaac, B. J.; Ekanayake, G. B. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 101, Issue 25 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4773052	journal	December 2012
On the properties of binary rutile MO ₂ compounds, M = Ir, Ru, Sn, and Ti: A DFT study Novell-Leruth, Gerard; Carchini, Giuliano; López, Núria The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 138, Issue 19 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4803854	journal	May 2013
Atomically flat reconstructed rutile TiO2(001) surfaces for oxide film growth Wang, Y.; Lee, S.; Vilmercati, P. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4942967	journal	February 2016
Polarity of oxide surfaces and nanostructures Goniakowski, Jacek; Finocchi, Fabio; Noguera, Claudine Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 71, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/71/1/016501	journal	December 2007
Image charge screening: A new approach to enhance magnetic ordering temperatures in ultrathin correlated oxide films Altieri, S.; Finazzi, M.; Hsieh, H. H. Physical Review B, Vol. 79, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.79.174431	journal	May 2009
Dynamically Stabilized Growth of Polar Oxides: The Case of MgO(111) Lazarov, Vlado K.; Cai, Zhuhua; Yoshida, Kenta Physical Review Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.107.056101	journal	July 2011
Effect of Strain on the Reactivity of Metal Surfaces Mavrikakis, M.; Hammer, B.; Nørskov, J. K. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 81, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.81.2819	journal	September 1998
Dynamic Atomic Reconstruction: How Fe 3 O 4 Thin Films Evade Polar Catastrophe for Epitaxy Chang, C. F.; Hu, Z.; Klein, S. Physical Review X, Vol. 6, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.6.041011	journal	October 2016
Prediction on the Surface Phase Diagram and Growth Morphology of Nanocrystal Ruthenium Dioxide Xu, Canhui; Jiang, Yong; Yi, Danqing Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 97, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.13148	journal	July 2014
Metallic Quantum Well States in Artificial Structures of Strongly Correlated Oxide Yoshimatsu, K.; Horiba, K.; Kumigashira, H. Science, Vol. 333, Issue 6040 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1205771	journal	July 2011
Atomistic Processes in the Early Stages of Thin-Film Growth Zhang, Z. Science, Vol. 276, Issue 5311 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.276.5311.377	journal	April 1997
Atomic-Scale Structure and Catalytic Reactivity of the RuO2(110) Surface Over, H. Science, Vol. 287, Issue 5457 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.287.5457.1474	journal	February 2000
A highly active and stable IrO _x /SrIrO ₃ catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction Seitz, Linsey C.; Dickens, Colin F.; Nishio, Kazunori Science, Vol. 353, Issue 6303 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf5050	journal	September 2016
Effect of Crystallographic Orientation of Single-Crystal RuO[sub 2] Electrodes on the Hydrogen Adsorption Reactions Hepel, Tadeusz Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 131, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2116026	journal	January 1984
Combined Catalysis and Optical Screening for High Throughput Discovery of Solar Fuels Catalysts Gregoire, J. M.; Xiang, C.; Mitrovic, S. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 160, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1149/2.035304jes	journal	January 2013
Control of octahedral connectivity in perovskite oxide heterostructures: An emerging route to multifunctional materials discovery Rondinelli, James M.; May, Steven J.; Freeland, John W. MRS Bulletin, Vol. 37, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2012.49	journal	March 2012

Similar Records

Preparation of atomically flat rutile TiO₂(001) surfaces for oxide film growth

Journal Article · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2016 · Applied Physics Letters · OSTI ID:1240534

Wang, Yang; Lee, Shinbuhm; Vilmercati, P.; +3 more

Structural and dielectric properties of epitaxial SrTiO{sub 3} films grown directly on GaAs substrates by laser molecular beam epitaxy

Journal Article · Mon Sep 01 04:00:00 UTC 2008 · Journal of Applied Physics · OSTI ID:21182604

Wu, Z P; Huang, W; Wong, K H; +1 more

Epitaxial growth of VO{sub 2} by periodic annealing

Journal Article · Mon Feb 10 04:00:00 UTC 2014 · Applied Physics Letters · OSTI ID:22283179

Tashman, J. W.; Paik, H.; Merz, T. A.; +8 more

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Title: Exposing high-energy surfaces by rapid-anneal solid phase epitaxy

Citation Formats

References (58)

Similar Records

Related Subjects