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Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Oct 29;55(87):13176-13178. doi: 10.1039/c9cc07660c.

Structural evolution induced by Au atom diffusion in Ag.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Benjin Jin, Fu Zhang, Geng Wu, Tongwei Yuan, Qian Wang, Huang Zhou, Yafei Zhao, Genqiang Zhang, Xun Hong

Affiliations

  1. Center of Advanced Nanocatalysis (CAN), Department of Applied Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China. [email protected].
  2. CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, P. R. China.

PMID: 31620730 DOI: 10.1039/c9cc07660c

Abstract

Atom diffusion processes govern the structure and composition of core-shell nanomaterial, which play a crucial role in determining their properties. By using aberration-corrected high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectroscopy in combination with in situ X-ray diffraction, we confirm that single-atom diffusion of Au to Ag2S occurs, and that the transition from the Au@Ag2S core-shell nanostructure to AuAgS-AuAgx or Ag3AuS2-AuAgx heterostructures was observed. Moreover, the phase of the ternary sulfide induced by Au single-atom diffusion in Ag2S is determined by the ratio of Au and Ag, thus exhibiting a significant difference in the photocatalytic activity performance.

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