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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 113, Issue 13, Pages 5096-5104Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp809533n
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- French National Research Agency (ANR) [NANO4F]
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The formation of surface nanostructures allows assemblies of materials at different scales, opening new routes toward the design of advanced nanostructured materials. The decoration of surfaces with shape-and size-controlled metal nanoparticles can be achieved through the reduction of hexafluoroacetylacetonate complexes [M(hfac)(x)] with H-2 in supercritical CO2/alcohol at low. temperature with neither catalyst nor surface prefunctionalization. This paper investigates the influence of different alcohols, methanol, ethanol, and isopropanol, used as cosolvent on the reduction kinetics of Cu(hfac)(2) center dot H2O in the supercritical CO2/alcohol/H-2 mixtures. The results are applied to the modeling of the decoration process of silica spheres, used as a model substrate, with copper nanoparticles (5-17 nm). The model, using the decomposition kinetics of the precursor, is based on a bimodal process: (i) an initial homogeneous nucleation in the supercritical media and (ii) a fast heterogeneous growth by coalescence on the surface of the silica particles. We demonstrate good agreements between the simulated results and the experimental data showing an advanced kinetically controlled size of the supported nanoparticles in the range of temperature 100-125 degrees C and residence time 0-120 min.
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