文献类型：期刊文献

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

作者：Li, Chang[1];Chen, Xin[1,2,3];Liu, Haiyang[1];Fang, Jiali[1];Zhou, Xiaoqin[1]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Mat Sci & Engn, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Minist Educ, Key Lab Ultrafine Mat, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[3]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Mat Sci & Engn, Shanghai Key Lab Adv Polymer Mat, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China

年份：2018

卷号：11

期号：9

起止页码：4697

外文期刊名：NANO RESEARCH

收录：;EI(收录号：20181504998753);WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000441237100020)】；

基金：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).

语种：英文

外文关键词：in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM); nanoparticles; nanoassembling; nanoscale fluids; trapping force

摘要：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 (F-c) 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.