Abstract
WereportthetransformationofnickelclustersintoNiOringsbyanelectronbeaminducednanoscaleKirkendall effect.High-puritynickelclustersconsistingofafewthousandatomshavebeenusedasprecursors andweresynthesizedwiththesuperfluid heliumdroplettechnique.Aberration-corrected,analytical scanningtransmissionelectronmicroscopywasappliedtooxidiseandsimultaneouslyanalysethe nanostructures.Thetransientdynamicsoftheoxidationcouldbedocumentedbytimelapseseriesusing high-angleannulardark-field imagingandelectronenergy-lossspectroscopy.Atwo-stepCabrera-Mott oxidationmechanismwasidentified. Itwasfoundthatwateradsorbedadjacenttotheclustersactsas oxygensourcefortheelectronbeaminducedoxidation.Thesize-dependentoxidationratewases-timated byquantitativeEELSmeasurementscombinedwithmoleculardynamicssimulations.Ourfindings couldservetobettercontrolsamplechangesduringexaminationinanelectronmicroscope,andmight provideamethodologytogenerateothermetaloxidenanostructures.
Originalsprache | englisch |
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Seiten (von - bis) | 105-111 |
Fachzeitschrift | Ultramicroscopy |
Jahrgang | 176 |
DOIs | |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 2017 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Allgemeine Materialwissenschaften
Fields of Expertise
- Advanced Materials Science
Treatment code (Nähere Zuordnung)
- Basic - Fundamental (Grundlagenforschung)