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ACS Nano. 2019 Nov 26;13(11):12425-12437. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b06224. Epub 2019 Oct 08.

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ACS nano

Alexander Porkovich, Zakaria Ziadi, Pawan Kumar, Joseph Kioseoglou, Nan Jian, Lin Weng, Stephan Steinhauer, Jerome Vernieres, Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos, Mukhles Sowwan

Affiliations

  1. Nanoparticles by Design Unit , Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University , 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-Son , Okinawa 904-0495 , Japan.
  2. Department of Physics , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , GR-54124 Thessaloniki , Greece.

PMID: 31577415 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b06224

Abstract

Surface charge and charge transfer between nanoclusters and oxide supports are of paramount importance to catalysis, surface plasmonics, and optical energy harvesting areas. At present, high-energy X-rays and theoretical investigation are always required to determine the chemical state changes in the nanoclusters and the oxide supports, as well as the underlying transfer charge between them. This work presents the idea of using chrono-conductometric measurements to determine the chemical states of the Ru nanoclusters on CuO supports. Both icosahedral and single-crystal hexagonal close-packed Ru nanoclusters were deposited through gas-phase synthesis. To study the charge transfer phenomenon at the interface, a bias was applied to cupric oxide nanowires with metallic nanocluster decoration.

Keywords: cupric oxide; interface; nanoclusters; ruthenium; surface charge

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