期刊
ACS NANO
卷 14, 期 12, 页码 17704-17712出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c09470
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high-entropy alloys; nanoparticles; core level shifts; first-principles calculations; electronic structure
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资金
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2019YFC0214302, 2019YFC0214303]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21878338]
- US DOE [ER46430]
High entropy alloy nanoparticles (HEA-NPs) are expanding their influence in many fields. To explore the electronic structures in such multielemental systems, HEA-NPs were synthesized on two different carbon substrates through carbothermal shock and in situ reduction methods. The relationship between the apparent core level energy shifts (negative or positive) and the electron density changes among the components of quinary-metal HEA-NPs was investigated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis and first-principles electronic structure calculations. It was found that Cu displays a negative core level shift while Fe, Co, Mg, Cr, and Mn display a positive core level shift. While experiments show an apparent positive core level shift for Ni, electronic structure calculations reveal that this arises from shifts in the Fermi level and that the electron density redistribution in Ni behaves more like Cu than the other elements. The findings show that the electron density redistribution in the NPs occurs from less electronegative elements to more electronegative ones. This work should guide the design of HEA-NPs to expand their potential applications in mechanical structures, medicine, catalysis, and energy storage/conversion.
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