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In-situ liquid-cell TEM study of radial flow-guided motion of octahedral Au nanoparticles and nanoparticle clusters

Show Author's Information Chang Li1,  Xin Chen1,2( ),  Haiyang Liu1,  Jiali Fang1,  Xiaoqin Zhou1
School of Materials Science and EngineeringEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghai200237China
Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric MaterialsSchool of Materials Science and EngineeringEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghai200237China
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nanoparticles, in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM), nanoassembling, nanoscale fluids, trapping force
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Li C, Chen X, Liu H, et al. In-situ liquid-cell TEM study of radial flow-guided motion of octahedral Au nanoparticles and nanoparticle clusters. Nano Research, 2018, 11(9): 4697-4707. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-018-2052-6
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The dynamic behavior of octahedral gold nanoparticles (NPs) and nanoparticle clusters (NPCs) in aqueous solution is studied by in-situ liquid-cell transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The octahedral Au NPs/NPCs show preferential orientations in the liquid cell, due to the interaction with the SiNx window. The Au NPs show long-range reversible hopping and three-dimensional (3D) rotational motions in the liquid environment. At the same time, the Au NPCs and NPs perform slow stick-slip and stick-roll motions, respectively, with a centripetal trend. The centripetal motions were explained by a liquid evaporation-induced radial flow model, in which the NPCs/NPs trajectories are controlled by Stokes forces and surface friction by the silicon nitride window. The calculated radius-dependent force (Fc) on the NPCs/NPs shows a semi-linear correlation with the distance r between the NPCs/NPs and the center of mass, accompanied with stochastic fluctuations, in agreement with the model predictions. This work thus demonstrates the effectiveness of in situ liquid-cell TEM for the in-depth understanding of complicated liquid flow and force interactions in nanomaterials.


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In-situ liquid-cell TEM study of radial flow-guided motion of octahedral Au nanoparticles and nanoparticle clusters

Show Author's information Chang Li1, Xin Chen1,2( ), Haiyang Liu1, Jiali Fang1, Xiaoqin Zhou1
School of Materials Science and EngineeringEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghai200237China
Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric MaterialsSchool of Materials Science and EngineeringEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghai200237China

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The dynamic behavior of octahedral gold nanoparticles (NPs) and nanoparticle clusters (NPCs) in aqueous solution is studied by in-situ liquid-cell transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The octahedral Au NPs/NPCs show preferential orientations in the liquid cell, due to the interaction with the SiNx window. The Au NPs show long-range reversible hopping and three-dimensional (3D) rotational motions in the liquid environment. At the same time, the Au NPCs and NPs perform slow stick-slip and stick-roll motions, respectively, with a centripetal trend. The centripetal motions were explained by a liquid evaporation-induced radial flow model, in which the NPCs/NPs trajectories are controlled by Stokes forces and surface friction by the silicon nitride window. The calculated radius-dependent force (Fc) on the NPCs/NPs shows a semi-linear correlation with the distance r between the NPCs/NPs and the center of mass, accompanied with stochastic fluctuations, in agreement with the model predictions. This work thus demonstrates the effectiveness of in situ liquid-cell TEM for the in-depth understanding of complicated liquid flow and force interactions in nanomaterials.

Keywords: nanoparticles, in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM), nanoassembling, nanoscale fluids, trapping force

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Received: 11 January 2018
Revised: 05 March 2018
Accepted: 15 March 2018
Published: 05 April 2018
Issue date: September 2018

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (No. B502), Shanghai Key Laboratory Project (No. 08DZ2230500), and the State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics Open Project (No. SKL201306).

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