Extremely Slow Diffusion of Gold Nanoparticles under Confinement in Mesoporous Silica

Mhanna, Ramona; Giroux, Michael; Livi, Kenneth J. T.; Wang, Chao; Fluerasu, Andrei; Wiegart, Lutz; Zhang, Yugang; Sutton, Mark; Leheny, Robert L.

doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c00090

Title: Extremely Slow Diffusion of Gold Nanoparticles under Confinement in Mesoporous Silica

Journal Article · 14 February 2022 · Journal of Physical Chemistry. C

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c00090 · OSTI ID:1886237

Mhanna, Ramona ^[1]; Giroux, Michael ^[1]; Livi, Kenneth J. T. ^[1];

^[1]; Fluerasu, Andrei ^[2];

^[2]; Zhang, Yugang ^[3]; Sutton, Mark ^[4];

^[1]

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
McGill University, Montreal, QC (Canada)

Here, we report an X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) study of the mobility of colloidal gold nanoparticles with a diameter of approximately 4 nm in glycerol under confinement within the channels of SBA-15 mesoporous silica with pore diameters of approximately 6 and 12 nm. The XPCS correlation functions result from an effective heterodyne signal due to the mixing of the coherent scattering from the nanoparticles and the mesoporous silica. Over the range of wave vectors and hence length scales probed, the nanoparticle dynamics are well described by one-dimensional diffusion. The nanoparticle diffusivity varies with temperature in a manner expected based on the temperature-dependent viscosity of glycerol; however, the magnitudes of the diffusion coefficients are several orders of magnitude smaller than those of the nanoparticles in bulk glycerol. We consider mechanisms that might contribute to this reduction in diffusivity including enhancement in hydrodynamic drag under confinement, effects of nanoparticle adsorption to the pore walls, and slowing structural dynamics in glycerol due to the combination of the nanometer-scale confinement and the presence of the nanoparticles.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1886237

Report Number(s):: BNL-223282-2022-JAAM

Journal Information:: Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, Journal Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry. C Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 126; ISSN 1932-7447

Publisher:: American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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