Persistent nucleation and size dependent attachment kinetics produce monodisperse PbS nanocrystals

Modern syntheses of colloidal nanocrystals yield extraordinarily narrow size distributions that are believed to result from a rapid "burst of nucleation" (La Mer, JACS , 1950, 72 (11), 4847-4854) followed by diffusion limited growth and size distribution focusing (Reiss, J. Chem. Phys. , 1...

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Published in:Chemical science (Cambridge) 2022-05, Vol.13 (17), p.4977-4983
Main Authors: Abécassis, Benjamin, Greenberg, Matthew W, Bal, Vivekananda, McMurtry, Brandon M, Campos, Michael P, Guillemeney, Lilian, Mahler, Benoit, Prevost, Sylvain, Sharpnack, Lewis, Hendricks, Mark P, DeRosha, Daniel, Bennett, Ellie, Saenz, Natalie, Peters, Baron, Owen, Jonathan S
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Language:English
Subjects:
Chemical Sciences
Chemistry
Crystal growth
Diffusion rate
Engineering Sciences
Kinetics
Nanocrystals
Nanoparticles
NMR
NMR spectroscopy
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Nucleation
Physics
Population balance models
Precursors
Resonance scattering
Size distribution
Surface reactions
X-ray scattering
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Summary:Modern syntheses of colloidal nanocrystals yield extraordinarily narrow size distributions that are believed to result from a rapid "burst of nucleation" (La Mer, JACS , 1950, 72 (11), 4847-4854) followed by diffusion limited growth and size distribution focusing (Reiss, J. Chem. Phys. , 1951, 19 , 482). Using a combination of in situ X-ray scattering, optical absorption, and 13 C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, we monitor the kinetics of PbS solute generation, nucleation, and crystal growth from three thiourea precursors whose conversion reactivity spans a 2-fold range. In all three cases, nucleation is found to be slow and continues during >50% of the precipitation. A population balance model based on a size dependent growth law (1/ r ) fits the data with a single growth rate constant ( k G ) across all three precursors. However, the magnitude of the k G and the lack of solvent viscosity dependence indicates that the rate limiting step is not diffusion from solution to the nanoparticle surface. Several surface reaction limited mechanisms and a ligand penetration model that fits data our experiments using a single fit parameter are proposed to explain the results. In situ X-ray scattering kinetics and population balance modeling of crystal nucleation and growth.
ISSN:2041-6520
2041-6539
DOI:10.1039/d1sc06134h