Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 257, Issue 2, Pages 404-413Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.07.002
Keywords
Oxidized nanoparticles; Silver; Photoelectron spectroscopy; Oxygen; HRTEM; XPS
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [10-03-00441a]
- International Charitable Zamaraev Foundation
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The investigation of oxidized silver nanoparticles by the photoemission (XPS, UPS) and HRTEM methods was performed. The nanoparticles of oxidized silver were obtained in the vacuum chamber by two methods of synthesis: thermal evaporation of silver nanoparticles followed by transferring in convective gas flow and sputtering of oxidized clusters under the action of plasma. Both methods indicated that oxygen interaction with silver nanoparticles depends strongly on its size. It was shown that the chemical bonding of oxygen species stabilized on small particles differs from the oxygen species adsorbed on bulk silver surfaces (monocrystals, foils and large particles). The low charged oxygen with molecular type of bonding stabilizes on particles of size approximately 5 nm and smaller. Increasing particle size leads to the dissociation of molecular oxygen species and the formation of strongly charged oxygen composed of oxide nanoparticles like Ag2O or AgO type. The presence of extended defects in the microdomain large nanoparticles facilitates the formation of Ag2O or AgO layers covering metallic nanosilver. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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