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ArticleNature nanotechnology2024

Complete miscibility of immiscible elements at the nanometre scale.

Peng-Cheng Chen, Mengyu Gao, Caitlin A McCandler, Chengyu Song, Jianbo Jin, Yao Yang, Arifin Luthfi Maulana, Kristin A Persson, Peidong Yang

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Article in Nature nanotechnology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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9 authors.

Peng-Cheng Chen *Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0411-9549
Mengyu Gao *Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1385-7364
Caitlin A McCandler *Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2616-310X
Chengyu SongMolecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Jianbo JinDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-7960
Yao YangDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Arifin Luthfi MaulanaDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5928-586X
Kristin A PerssonKavli Energy Nanoscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2495-5509
Peidong YangKavli Energy Nanoscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. p_yang@berkeley.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4799-1684

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) DMR-1719875U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) BES-ERCAP0024004U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC02-05CH11231U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) FWP CH030201
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the mixing behaviour of elements in a multielement material is important to control its structure and property. When the size of a multielement material is decreased to the nanoscale, the miscibility of elements in the nanomaterial often changes from its bulk counterpart. However, there is a lack of comprehensive and quantitative experimental insight into this process. Here we explored how the miscibility of Au and Rh evolves in nanoparticles of sizes varying from 4 to 1 nm and composition changing from 15% Au to 85% Au. We found that the two immiscible elements exhibit a phase-separation-to-alloy transition in nanoparticles with decreased size and become completely miscible in sub-2 nm particles across the entire compositional range. Quantitative electron microscopy analysis and theoretical calculations were used to show that the observed immiscibility-to-miscibility transition is dictated by particle size, composition and possible surface adsorbates present under the synthesis conditions.

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