Issue 1, 2014

Quantitative determination of fragmentation kinetics and thermodynamics of colloidal silver nanowires by in situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction

Abstract

Colloidal silver nanowires become instable and tend to fragment into shortened nanorods and nanoparticles at elevated temperatures. Such morphological variations are associated with the transformation of crystalline structures from the body-centered tetragonal (b.c.t.) lattices into the face-centered cubic (f.c.c.) ones. The crystalline phase transformation has been probed in real time with an in situ technique based on time-resolved high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Comprehensive analysis of the in situ measurements provides, for the first time, the quantitative understanding of kinetics and thermodynamics involved in the fragmentation of the colloidal silver nanowires.

Graphical abstract: Quantitative determination of fragmentation kinetics and thermodynamics of colloidal silver nanowires by in situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Aug 2013
Accepted
15 Oct 2013
First published
22 Oct 2013

Nanoscale, 2014,6, 365-370

Quantitative determination of fragmentation kinetics and thermodynamics of colloidal silver nanowires by in situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction

Z. Li, J. S. Okasinski, J. D. Almer, Y. Ren, X. Zuo and Y. Sun, Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 365 DOI: 10.1039/C3NR04368A

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