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Title: Damping Off Terahertz Sound Modes of a Liquid upon Immersion of Nanoparticles

Abstract

The control of phonon propagation in nanoparticle arrays is one of the frontiers of nanotechnology, potentially enabling the discovery of materials with unknown functionalities for potential innovative applications. The exploration of the terahertz window appears quite promising as phonons in this range are the leading carriers of heat transport in insulators and their control is the key to implement devices for heat flow management. Unfortunately, this scientific field is still in its infancy, and even a basic topic such as the influence of floating nanoparticles on the terahertz phonon propagation of a colloidal suspension still eludes a firm answer. Shedding some light on this topic is the main motivation of the present work, which focuses an inelastic X-ray scattering (IXS) measurements on a dilute suspension of Au nanospheres in water. Measured spectra showed a nontrivial shape displaying multiple inelastic features that, based on a Bayesian inference analysis, we assign to phonon modes propagating throughout the nanoparticle interior. Surprisingly, the spectra bear no evidence of propagating modes, which are known to dominate the spectrum of pure water, owing to the scattering that these modes suffer from the sparse nanoparticles in suspension. In perspective, this finding may inspire simple routes to manipulatemore » high-frequency acoustic propagation in hybrid—liquid and solid—materials.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [1];  [4];  [5];  [4];  [6];  [7];  [6];  [4]; ORCiD logo [4]
  1. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (France)
  2. Univ. di Macerata, Macerata (Italy)
  3. Univ. Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble (France)
  4. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  5. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
  6. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  7. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Miami Univ., Oxford, OH (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1482559
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1484027
Report Number(s):
BNL-209458-2018-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 1936-0851
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704; AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
ACS Nano
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; Bayesian analysis; colloidal systems; inelastic X-ray scattering; nanoparticles; phonon propagation; water

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De Francesco, Alessio, Scaccia, Luisa, Maccarini, Marco, Formisano, Ferdinando, Zhang, Yugang, Gang, Oleg, Nykypanchuk, Dmytro, Said, Ayman H., Leu, Bogdan M., Alatas, Ahmet, Cai, Yong Q., and Cunsolo, Alessandro. Damping Off Terahertz Sound Modes of a Liquid upon Immersion of Nanoparticles. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1021/acsnano.8b03101.
De Francesco, Alessio, Scaccia, Luisa, Maccarini, Marco, Formisano, Ferdinando, Zhang, Yugang, Gang, Oleg, Nykypanchuk, Dmytro, Said, Ayman H., Leu, Bogdan M., Alatas, Ahmet, Cai, Yong Q., & Cunsolo, Alessandro. Damping Off Terahertz Sound Modes of a Liquid upon Immersion of Nanoparticles. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.8b03101
De Francesco, Alessio, Scaccia, Luisa, Maccarini, Marco, Formisano, Ferdinando, Zhang, Yugang, Gang, Oleg, Nykypanchuk, Dmytro, Said, Ayman H., Leu, Bogdan M., Alatas, Ahmet, Cai, Yong Q., and Cunsolo, Alessandro. Fri . "Damping Off Terahertz Sound Modes of a Liquid upon Immersion of Nanoparticles". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.8b03101. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1482559.
@article{osti_1482559,
title = {Damping Off Terahertz Sound Modes of a Liquid upon Immersion of Nanoparticles},
author = {De Francesco, Alessio and Scaccia, Luisa and Maccarini, Marco and Formisano, Ferdinando and Zhang, Yugang and Gang, Oleg and Nykypanchuk, Dmytro and Said, Ayman H. and Leu, Bogdan M. and Alatas, Ahmet and Cai, Yong Q. and Cunsolo, Alessandro},
abstractNote = {The control of phonon propagation in nanoparticle arrays is one of the frontiers of nanotechnology, potentially enabling the discovery of materials with unknown functionalities for potential innovative applications. The exploration of the terahertz window appears quite promising as phonons in this range are the leading carriers of heat transport in insulators and their control is the key to implement devices for heat flow management. Unfortunately, this scientific field is still in its infancy, and even a basic topic such as the influence of floating nanoparticles on the terahertz phonon propagation of a colloidal suspension still eludes a firm answer. Shedding some light on this topic is the main motivation of the present work, which focuses an inelastic X-ray scattering (IXS) measurements on a dilute suspension of Au nanospheres in water. Measured spectra showed a nontrivial shape displaying multiple inelastic features that, based on a Bayesian inference analysis, we assign to phonon modes propagating throughout the nanoparticle interior. Surprisingly, the spectra bear no evidence of propagating modes, which are known to dominate the spectrum of pure water, owing to the scattering that these modes suffer from the sparse nanoparticles in suspension. In perspective, this finding may inspire simple routes to manipulate high-frequency acoustic propagation in hybrid—liquid and solid—materials.},
doi = {10.1021/acsnano.8b03101},
journal = {ACS Nano},
number = 9,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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