Pseudomorphic amorphization of three-dimensional superlattices through morphological transformation of nanocrystal building blocks

Nanocrystal (NC) superlattices (SLs) have been widely studied as a new class of functional mesoscopic materials with collective physical properties. The arrangement of NCs in SLs governs the collective properties of SLs, and thus investigations of phenomena that can change the assembly of NC constit...

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Published in:Chemical science (Cambridge) 2024-02, Vol.15 (7), p.2425-2432
Main Authors: Saruyama, Masaki, Takahata, Ryo, Sato, Ryota, Matsumoto, Kenshi, Zhu, Lingkai, Nakanishi, Yohei, Shibata, Motoki, Nakatani, Tomotaka, Fujinami, So, Miyazaki, Tsukasa, Takenaka, Mikihito, Teranishi, Toshiharu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amorphization
Arrays
Chemistry
Constituents
Copper sulfides
Crystallography
Liquid phases
Morphology
Nanocrystals
Physical properties
Superlattices
Synthesis
X-ray scattering
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Summary:Nanocrystal (NC) superlattices (SLs) have been widely studied as a new class of functional mesoscopic materials with collective physical properties. The arrangement of NCs in SLs governs the collective properties of SLs, and thus investigations of phenomena that can change the assembly of NC constituents are important. In this study, we investigated the dynamic evolution of NC arrangements in three-dimensional (3D) SLs, specifically the morphological transformation of NC constituents during the direct liquid-phase synthesis of 3D NC SLs. Electron microscopy and synchrotron-based in situ small angle X-ray scattering experiments revealed that the transformation of spherical Cu 2 S NCs in face-centred-cubic 3D NC SLs into anisotropic disk-shaped NCs collapsed the original ordered close-packed structure. The random crystallographic orientation of spherical Cu 2 S NCs in starting SLs also contributed to the complete disordering of the NC array via random-direction anisotropic growth of NCs. This work demonstrates that an understanding of the anisotropic growth kinetics of NCs in the post-synthesis modulation of NC SLs is important for tuning NC array structures. The dynamic order-to-disorder transition of nanocrystal arrangements in three-dimensional superlattices is caused by the morphological transformation of nanocrystal constituents during the direct liquid-phase synthesis of superlattices.
ISSN:2041-6520
2041-6539
DOI:10.1039/d3sc05085h