Au@Hg nanoalloy formation through direct amalgamation: Structural, spectroscopic, and computational evidence for slow nanoscale diffusion

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3259-3267

  Mertens, Stijn F L ^a,f   Gara, Matthew ^b   Sologubenko, Alla S ^c,g   Mayer, Joachim ^c   Szidat, Sönke ^a   Krämer, Karl W ^a   Jacob, Timo ^d   Schiffrin, David J ^e   Wandlowski, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

density functional theory; discrete dipole approximation; gold; mercury; nanoalloys

Indexed keywords

AMALGAMATION PROCESS; COHESIVE ENERGIES; CORE SHELL STRUCTURE; CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES; CORE-SHELL PARTICLE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION CALCULATIONS; ELEMENTAL MERCURY; FACE-CENTERED CUBIC; GOLD HYDROSOLS; HG CONCENTRATIONS; INWARD DIFFUSION; LATTICE LENGTH; MERCURY CONTENT; METAL DISTRIBUTIONS; NANO SCALE; NANO-ALLOYS; PARTICLE LATTICE; PRECISE CONTROL; RATE DETERMINING STEP; SEGREGATION ENERGIES; SIMPLE METHOD; SLOW DIFFUSION; SYNTHETIC METHODS; UV-VIS SPECTRA; ZERO ORDER KINETICS;

ALLOYING ELEMENTS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIFFRACTION; DIFFUSION; DISSOLUTION; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REACTION KINETICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

GOLD;

EID: 80052424257     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201100409     Document Type: Article

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