Observing atomic layer electrodeposition on single nanocrystals surface by dark field spectroscopy
Open Access
- 20 May 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Communications
- Vol. 11 (1), 1-7
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16405-3
Abstract
Underpotential deposition offers a predominant way to tailor the electronic structure of the catalytic surface at the atomic level, which is key to engineering materials with a high activity for (electro)catalysis. However, it remains challenging to precisely control and directly probe the underpotential deposition of a (sub)monolayer of atoms on nanoparticle surfaces. In this work, we in situ observe silver electrodeposited on gold nanocrystals surface from sub-monolayer to one monolayer by designing a highly sensitive electrochemical dark field scattering setup. The spectral variation is used to reconstruct the optical “cyclic voltammogram” of every single nanocrystal for understanding the underpotential deposition process on nanocrystals, which cannot be achieved by any other methods but are essential for creating novel nanomaterials.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21633005, 21790354, 21711530704, 21621091)
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2016YFA0200601)
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