Real-Time Observation of Water-Soluble Mineral Precipitation in Aqueous Solution by In Situ High-Resolution Electron Microscopy
Abstract
The precipitation and dissolution of water-soluble minerals in aqueous systems is a familiar process occurring commonly in nature. Understanding mineral nucleation and growth during its precipitation is highly desirable, but past in situ techniques have suffered from limited spatial and temporal resolution. In this paper, by using in situ graphene liquid cell electron microscopy, mineral nucleation and growth processes are demonstrated in high spatial and temporal resolution. We precipitate the mineral thenardite (Na2SO4) from aqueous solution with electron-beam-induced radiolysis of water. We demonstrate that minerals nucleate with a two-dimensional island structure on the graphene surfaces. We further reveal that mineral grains grow by grain boundary migration and grain rotation. Finally, our findings provide a direct observation of the dynamics of crystal growth from ionic solutions.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics. Kavli Energy NanoScience Inst.; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Sciences Division
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). The National Center for Electron Microscopy. The Molecular Foundry
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry. Dept. of Materials Science. Kavli Energy NanoScience Inst.; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Materials Sciences Division
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Office of Naval Research (ONR) (United States); National Science Foundation (NSF); Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1440918
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; N00014-12-1; DMR-1206512; HDTRA1-13-1-0035
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Nano
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1936-0851
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; grain boundary migration; grain rotation; in situ graphene liquid cell electron microscopy; nucleation and growth; water-soluble mineral
Citation Formats
Yuk, Jong Min, Zhou, Qin, Chang, Jiyoung, Ercius, Peter, Alivisatos, A. Paul, and Zettl, Alex. Real-Time Observation of Water-Soluble Mineral Precipitation in Aqueous Solution by In Situ High-Resolution Electron Microscopy. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b04064.
Yuk, Jong Min, Zhou, Qin, Chang, Jiyoung, Ercius, Peter, Alivisatos, A. Paul, & Zettl, Alex. Real-Time Observation of Water-Soluble Mineral Precipitation in Aqueous Solution by In Situ High-Resolution Electron Microscopy. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b04064
Yuk, Jong Min, Zhou, Qin, Chang, Jiyoung, Ercius, Peter, Alivisatos, A. Paul, and Zettl, Alex. Thu .
"Real-Time Observation of Water-Soluble Mineral Precipitation in Aqueous Solution by In Situ High-Resolution Electron Microscopy". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.5b04064. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1440918.
@article{osti_1440918,
title = {Real-Time Observation of Water-Soluble Mineral Precipitation in Aqueous Solution by In Situ High-Resolution Electron Microscopy},
author = {Yuk, Jong Min and Zhou, Qin and Chang, Jiyoung and Ercius, Peter and Alivisatos, A. Paul and Zettl, Alex},
abstractNote = {The precipitation and dissolution of water-soluble minerals in aqueous systems is a familiar process occurring commonly in nature. Understanding mineral nucleation and growth during its precipitation is highly desirable, but past in situ techniques have suffered from limited spatial and temporal resolution. In this paper, by using in situ graphene liquid cell electron microscopy, mineral nucleation and growth processes are demonstrated in high spatial and temporal resolution. We precipitate the mineral thenardite (Na2SO4) from aqueous solution with electron-beam-induced radiolysis of water. We demonstrate that minerals nucleate with a two-dimensional island structure on the graphene surfaces. We further reveal that mineral grains grow by grain boundary migration and grain rotation. Finally, our findings provide a direct observation of the dynamics of crystal growth from ionic solutions.},
doi = {10.1021/acsnano.5b04064},
journal = {ACS Nano},
number = 1,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 03 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Thu Dec 03 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}
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