Surface Atomic Structure and Growth Mechanism of Monodisperse {1 0 0}-Faceted Strontium Titanate Zirconate Nanocubes

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 650-656

  Du, Hongchu ^a,b,c   Jia, Chun Lin ^a   Mayer, Joachim ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOCRYSTALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRONTIUM; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABERRATION-CORRECTED SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; COMPOUND MATERIAL; FACETED SURFACES; GEOMETRIC SHAPE; GROWTH MECHANISMS; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; SELECTIVE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ATOMIC STRUCTURE;

STRONTIUM TITANATES;

EID: 84962270297     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b04486     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. 3 Nanocrystals and Their Facet-Dependent Catalytic and Sensing Properties ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2014, 6 (15) 12505-12514 10.1021/am502358g
2. Han, X.; Jin, M.; Xie, S.; Kuang, Q.; Jiang, Z.; Jiang, Y.; Xie, Z.; Zheng, L. Synthesis of Tin Dioxide Octahedral Nanoparticles with Exposed High-Energy {221} Facets and Enhanced Gas-Sensing Properties Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2009, 48 (48) 9180-9183 10.1002/anie.200903926
3. Chen, C.; Xu, L.; Sewvandi, G. A.; Kusunose, T.; Tanaka, Y.; Nakanishi, S.; Feng, Q. Microwave-Assisted Topochemical Conversion of Layered Titanate Nanosheets to {010}-Faceted Anatase Nanocrystals for High Performance Photocatalysts and Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Cryst. Growth Des. 2014, 14 (11) 5801-5811 10.1021/cg501062r
4. Xie, S.; Choi, S.-I.; Xia, X.; Xia, Y. Catalysis on Faceted Noble-Metal Nanocrystals: Both Shape and Size Matter Curr. Opin. Chem. Eng. 2013, 2 (2) 142-150 10.1016/j.coche.2013.02.003
5. Tao, A. R.; Habas, S.; Yang, P. Shape Control of Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals Small 2008, 4 (3) 310-325 10.1002/smll.200701295
6. Xia, X.; Zeng, J.; McDearmon, B.; Zheng, Y.; Li, Q.; Xia, Y. Silver Nanocrystals with Concave Surfaces and Their Optical and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Properties Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2011, 50 (52) 12542-12546 10.1002/anie.201105200
7. Cui, C.; Gan, L.; Heggen, M.; Rudi, S.; Strasser, P. Compositional Segregation in Shaped Pt Alloy Nanoparticles and Their Structural Behaviour during Electrocatalysis Nat. Mater. 2013, 12 (8) 765-771 10.1038/nmat3668
8. Nassau, K.; Miller, A. E. Strontium Titanate: An Index to the Literature on Properties and the Growth of Single Crystals J. Cryst. Growth 1988, 91, 373-381 10.1016/0022-0248(88)90254-0
9. 3 Appl. Phys. Lett. 2008, 93, 93 10.1063/1.2959074
10. Kreuer, K. D.; Adams, S.; Münch, W.; Fuchs, A.; Klock, U.; Maier, J. Proton Conducting Alkaline Earth Zirconates and Titanates for High Drain Electrochemical Applications Solid State Ionics 2001, 145, 295-306 10.1016/S0167-2738(01)00953-5
11. 3 Nature 2004, 430, 758-761 10.1038/nature02773
12. Tsurumi, T.; Harigai, T.; Tanaka, D.; Nam, S.-M.; Kakemoto, H.; Wada, S.; Saito, K. Artificial Ferroelectricity in Perovskite Superlattices Appl. Phys. Lett. 2004, 85, 5016-5018 10.1063/1.1825057
13. 3 by Photoemission Spectroscopy Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter Mater. Phys. 1998, 57, 6978 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.6978
14. Bin-Daar, G.; Dare-Edwards, M. P.; Goodenough, J. B.; Hamnett, A. New Anode Materials for Photoelectrolysis J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 1 1983, 79, 1199-1213 10.1039/f19837901199
15. 3 Synthesized by Micro-Emulsion Method J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 2005, 25, 2739-2742 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2005.03.226
16. Ahn, C. H.; Rabe, K. M.; Triscone, J. M. Ferroelectricity at the Nanoscale: Local Polarization in Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures Science 2004, 35, 488-491 10.1002/chin.200417245
17. 3 Nanoparticles J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 2008, 25, 325-333 10.1364/JOSAB.25.000325
18. 3 Nanocrystals Using a Two-Phase Solvothermal Method J. Mater. Chem. 2007, 17, 4605-4610 10.1039/b708914g
19. Wang, X.; Zhuang, J.; Peng, Q.; Li, Y. A General Strategy for Nanocrystal Synthesis Nature 2005, 437, 121-124 10.1038/nature03968
20. 3 Nanoparticles Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2004, 43, 2270-2273 10.1002/anie.200353300
21. 3 Nanocrystals J. Mater. Chem. 2010, 20, 5074-5079 10.1039/c0jm00845a
22. 3 Nanocrystals at 80 °C Langmuir 2007, 23, 11369-11372 10.1021/la701877d
23. 3 Hollow Cuboidal Nanoshells CrystEngComm 2011, 13, 3842 10.1039/c1ce05206c
24. 3 Colloidal Nanocrystals Chem. Mater. 2010, 22, 1946-1948 10.1021/cm9038768
25. 3 Nanocubes by Thermohydrolysis Method CrystEngComm 2011, 13 (11) 3878 10.1039/c1ce05296a
26. 3 Nanocubes and Their Superlattice from an Aqueous Process Nanoscale 2012, 4 (4) 1344 10.1039/c2nr11594h
27. 3 Nanocubes in Oleate by a Two-Phase Solvothermal Method Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 2015, 288-295 10.1002/ejic.201402724
28. Fujinami, K.; Katagiri, K.; Kamiya, J.; Hamanaka, T.; Koumoto, K. Sub-10 Nm Strontium Titanate Nanocubes Highly Dispersed in Non-Polar Organic Solvents Nanoscale 2010, 2, 2080-2083 10.1039/c0nr00543f
29. 3 Bicrystals Acta Mater. 2015, 89, 344-351 10.1016/j.actamat.2015.02.016
30. 3 from TEM Nature 2012, 490 (7420) 384-387 10.1038/nature11563
31. 2 Nanoparticles and Nanorods Chem.-Eur. J. 2006, 12, 2383-2391 10.1002/chem.200500893
32. Du, H. DMPFIT: Peak Finding and Nonlinear Least-Squares Fitting in Digital Micrograph. Manuscript number: ULTRAM-D-15-00155R1, updated information: revision under review.
33. Markwardt, C. B. Non-Linear Least Squares Fitting in IDL with MPFIT. In Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVIII, Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Hotel Loews Le Concorde, Quebec City, QC, Canada, November 2-5, 2008; Bohlender, D. A.; Durand, D.; Dowler, P., Eds.; Astronomical Society of the Pacific: San Fransisco, CA, 2009; Vol. 411, p 251.
34. Moré, J. J. The Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm: Implementation and Theory. In Numerical Analysis; Watson, G. A., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, 1978; pp 105-116.
35. Du, H. A Nonlinear Filtering Algorithm for Denoising HR(S)TEM Micrographs Ultramicroscopy 2015, 151, 62-67 10.1016/j.ultramic.2014.11.012