TY - JOUR
T1 - Strain-Mediated Interfacial Dynamics during Au–PbS Core–Shell Nanostructure Formation
AU - Niu, Kai-Yang
AU - Liu, Miao
AU - Persson, Kristin A.
AU - Han, Yu
AU - Zheng, Haimei
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: We acknowledge the facility support of National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at the Molecular Foundry of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences under the Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. H.Z. thanks the support of DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program. The computational work was supported by the Department of Energy's Basic Energy Sciences program - the Materials Project - under Grant No. EDCBEE. We also thank Dr. Karen Bustillo in NCEM for her help on the TEM analyzes.
PY - 2016/5/26
Y1 - 2016/5/26
N2 - An understanding of the hierarchical nanostructure formation is of significant importance for the design of advanced functional materials. Here, we report the in situ study of lead sulfide (PbS) growth on gold (Au) nanorod seeds using liquid cell transmission electron microscopy (TEM). By tracking the formation dynamics of Au-PbS core-shell nanoparticles, we found the preferential heterogeneous nucleation of PbS on the ends of a Au nanorod prior to the development of a complete PdS shell. During PbS shell growth, drastic sulfidation of Au nanorod was observed, leading to large volume shrinkage (up to 50%) of the initial Au nanorod seed. We also captured intriguing wavy interfacial behavior, which can be explained by our DFT calculation results that the local strain gradient at the core-shell interface facilitates the mass transport and mediates reversible phase transitions of Au ↔ Au2S during the PbS shell growth. © 2016 American Chemical Society.
AB - An understanding of the hierarchical nanostructure formation is of significant importance for the design of advanced functional materials. Here, we report the in situ study of lead sulfide (PbS) growth on gold (Au) nanorod seeds using liquid cell transmission electron microscopy (TEM). By tracking the formation dynamics of Au-PbS core-shell nanoparticles, we found the preferential heterogeneous nucleation of PbS on the ends of a Au nanorod prior to the development of a complete PdS shell. During PbS shell growth, drastic sulfidation of Au nanorod was observed, leading to large volume shrinkage (up to 50%) of the initial Au nanorod seed. We also captured intriguing wavy interfacial behavior, which can be explained by our DFT calculation results that the local strain gradient at the core-shell interface facilitates the mass transport and mediates reversible phase transitions of Au ↔ Au2S during the PbS shell growth. © 2016 American Chemical Society.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/621667
UR - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.6b02331
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84976587983&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1021/acsnano.6b02331
DO - 10.1021/acsnano.6b02331
M3 - Article
C2 - 27214625
SN - 1936-0851
VL - 10
SP - 6235
EP - 6240
JO - ACS Nano
JF - ACS Nano
IS - 6
ER -