Journal
NANOMATERIALS
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano11030594
Keywords
Silicon nanoparticle; amorphous-like; nanocrystal; spark erosion; bead milling
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51475236, 51675275]
- Jiangsu Province STAT Project [BA2020038]
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This study successfully prepared silicon nanoparticles with nanocrystal-embedded amorphous structure using a combination of spark erosion and bead milling. This method saves time and energy, allows control over crystallite size and amorphous phase content, and is suitable for mass production of products with higher purity.
This work aims to prepare the silicon nanoparticles with the nanocrystal-embedded amorphous structure through spark erosion followed by bead milling. Spark erosion breaks up monocrystal silicon ingots into micro/nanoparticles, refines the crystal grains, makes the crystals randomly disordered, and increases isotropic character. Bead milling further refines the crystal grains to a few nanometers and increases the amorphous portion in the structure, eventually forming an amorphous structure with the nanocrystals embedded. Spark erosion saves much time and energy for bead milling. The crystallite size and the amount of amorphous phase could be controlled through varying pulse durations of spark discharge and bead milling time. The final particles could contain the nanocrystals as small as 4 nm and the content of amorphous phase as high as 84% and could be considered as amorphous-like Si nanoparticles. This processing route for Si nanoparticles greatly reduced the production time and the energy consumption and, more importantly, is structure-controllable and scalable for mass production of the products with higher purity.
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