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Title: "Energetics of Nanomaterials"

Abstract

This project represents a three-year collaboration among Alexandra Navrotsky, Brian Woodfield, Juliana Bocrio-Goates and Frances Hellman. It's purpose has been to explore the differences between bulk materials, nanoparticles, and thin films in terms of their thermodynamic properties, with an emphasis on heat capacities and entropies, as well as enthalpies. The three groups have brought very different expertise and capabilities to the project. Navrotsky is a solid-state chemist and geochemist, with a unique Thermochemistry Facility emphasizing enthalpy of formation measurements by high temperature oxide melt and room temperature acid solution calorimetry. Bocrio-Goates and Woodfield are physical chemists with unique capabilities in accurate cryogenic heat capacity measurements using adiabatic calorimetry. Hellman is a physicist with expertise in magnetism and heat capacity measurements using microscale ''detector on a chip'' calorimetric technology that she pioneered. The overarching question of the work is ''How does the free energy play out in nanoparticles''? or ''How do differences in free energy affect overall nanoparticle behavior''? Because the free energy represents the temperature-dependent balance between the enthalpy of a system and its entropy, there are two separate, but related, components to the experimental investigations: Solution calorimetric measurements provide the energetics and two types of heat capacity measurements themore » entropy. They use materials that are well characterized in other ways (structurally, magnetically, and chemically), and samples are shared across the collaboration.« less

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
836441
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/15237-1
ZCAL797; TRN: US200706%%807
DOE Contract Number:  
FG03-01ER15237
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; CALORIMETRY; CRYOGENICS; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; FORMATION HEAT; FREE ENERGY; MAGNETISM; OXIDES; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THIN FILMS; Iron oxides; Hydration energetics; Thermodynamic properties

Citation Formats

Navrotsky, Alexandra. "Energetics of Nanomaterials". United States: N. p., 2005. Web. doi:10.2172/836441.
Navrotsky, Alexandra. "Energetics of Nanomaterials". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/836441
Navrotsky, Alexandra. 2005. ""Energetics of Nanomaterials"". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/836441. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/836441.
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title = {"Energetics of Nanomaterials"},
author = {Navrotsky, Alexandra},
abstractNote = {This project represents a three-year collaboration among Alexandra Navrotsky, Brian Woodfield, Juliana Bocrio-Goates and Frances Hellman. It's purpose has been to explore the differences between bulk materials, nanoparticles, and thin films in terms of their thermodynamic properties, with an emphasis on heat capacities and entropies, as well as enthalpies. The three groups have brought very different expertise and capabilities to the project. Navrotsky is a solid-state chemist and geochemist, with a unique Thermochemistry Facility emphasizing enthalpy of formation measurements by high temperature oxide melt and room temperature acid solution calorimetry. Bocrio-Goates and Woodfield are physical chemists with unique capabilities in accurate cryogenic heat capacity measurements using adiabatic calorimetry. Hellman is a physicist with expertise in magnetism and heat capacity measurements using microscale ''detector on a chip'' calorimetric technology that she pioneered. The overarching question of the work is ''How does the free energy play out in nanoparticles''? or ''How do differences in free energy affect overall nanoparticle behavior''? Because the free energy represents the temperature-dependent balance between the enthalpy of a system and its entropy, there are two separate, but related, components to the experimental investigations: Solution calorimetric measurements provide the energetics and two types of heat capacity measurements the entropy. They use materials that are well characterized in other ways (structurally, magnetically, and chemically), and samples are shared across the collaboration.},
doi = {10.2172/836441},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/836441}, journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2005},
month = {Mon Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2005}
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