Journal
JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 6, Pages 1823-1825Publisher
AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2006.209
Keywords
silicon nanoparticle; Si-O linkage; alkoxy-monolayer; self-assembly; one-dimensional; structure; scanning transmission electron microscope; energy dispersive x-ray analysis
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We demonstrate here a novel method for self-assembling in dimensional alignment the alkoxy-capped silicon nanoparticles synthesized through a room-temperature chemical route. The alkoxy-capped silicon nanoparticles were prepared via a reduction of silicon tetrachloride with sodium-naphthalide and subsequent surface capsulation with 1-octanol monolayers. In the present method, a sublimation process, which was employed as a final purification process for removing the residual naphthalene, influenced significantly on the final morphology of the resultant nanoparticles. Scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) confirmed the spherical nanoparticles on a holey carbon grid after sublimation process, while only the fibril-like morphology just before sublimation process. In the former sample, the resultant particle size was measured by STEM to be about 9.5 nm 3.4 nm. On the other hand, in the latter sample, the fibril-like structures were shaped by self-assembled silicon nanoparticles in dimensional alignment. The diameters and lengths of the fibril-like assemblies were approximately measured to be 10 to 20 nm and over 5 mu m, respectively.
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