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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 24, Pages 8556-8562Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1sc01623g
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21925403, 21904062, 21874070]
- Excellent Research Program of Nanjing University [ZYJH004]
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The study revealed the presence of dark zones in single Prussian blue nanoparticles, leading to incomplete reactions and misalignment of optical mass centroid for different electrochemical intermediate states. This method demonstrates the potential to access the heterogeneous intraparticle dark zones in single electroactive nano-objects, with implications for evaluating crystallinity and electrochemical recyclability.
The inevitable microstructural defects, including cracks, grain boundaries and cavities, make a portion of the material inaccessible to electrons and ions, becoming the incentives for electrochemically inactive zones in single entity. Herein, we introduced dark field microscopy to study the variation of scattering spectrum and optical mass centroid (OMC) of single Prussian blue nanoparticles during electrochemical reaction. The dark zone embedded in a single electroactive nanoparticle resulted in the incomplete reaction, and consequently led to the misalignment of OMC for different electrochemical intermediate states. We further revealed the dark zones such as lattice defects in the same entity, which were externally manifested as the fixed pathway for OMC for the migration of potassium ions. This method opens up enormous potentiality to optically access the heterogeneous intraparticle dark zones, with implications for evaluating the crystallinity and electrochemical recyclability of single electroactive nano-objects.
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