Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 396, Issue 3, Pages 1057-1069Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-009-3203-0
Keywords
Copper nanoparticles; Copper oxide nanoparticles; Copper sulfide nanoplates; Kirkendall effect; Nanoplates; Transmission electron microscopy
Funding
- Maryland NanoCenter and its NispLab
- NSF
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A colloidal synthesis method was developed to produce face centered cubic (fcc) Cu nanoparticles in the presence of surfactants in an organic solvent under an Ar environment. Various synthetic conditions were explored to control the size of the as-prepared nanoparticles by changing the precursor, varying the amount of surfactants, and tuning the reaction temperature. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), selected-area electron diffraction, and high-resolution TEM were used as the main characterization tools. Upon exposure to air, these nanoparticles are oxidized at different levels depending on their sizes: ( 1) an inhomogeneous layer of fcc Cu2O forms at the surface of Cu nanoparticles ( about 30 nm); ( 2) Cu nanoparticles ( about 5 nm) are immediately oxidized into fcc Cu2O nanoparticles ( about 6 nm). The occurrence of these different levels of oxidization demonstrates the reactive nature of Cu nanoparticles and the effect of size on their reactivity. Furthermore, utilization of their chemical reactivity and conversion of spherical Cu nanoparticles into CuS nanoplates through the nanoscale Kirkendall effect were demonstrated. The oxidization and sulfidation of Cu nanoparticles were compared. Different diffusion and growth behaviors were involved in these two chemical transformations, resulting in the formation of isotropic Cu2O nanoparticles during oxidization and anisotropic CuS nanoplates during sulfidation.
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