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Optical super‐localisation of single nanoparticle nucleation and growth in nanodroplets
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Ciocci, Paolo, Valavanis, Dimitrios, Meloni, Gabriel N., Lemineur, Jean‐François, Unwin, Patrick R. and Kanoufi, Frédéric (2023) Optical super‐localisation of single nanoparticle nucleation and growth in nanodroplets. ChemElectroChem, 10 (9). e202201162. doi:10.1002/celc.202201162 ISSN 2196-0216.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202201162
Abstract
The formation of metal nanoparticles (NPs) on surfaces by electrodeposition is of significant interest, particularly with a view to understand the early stages of nucleation and growth. Here, the combination of scanning electrochemical cell microscopy (SECCM) and interference reflection microscopy (IRM) is demonstrated to be a compelling approach for real‐time monitoring of NP dynamics within the SECCM meniscus‐electrode wetted area, through synchronous monitoring in the millisecond range of the electrochemical and optical signatures. Diffraction‐limited entities, undergoing phase changes at the electrode substrate, are readily highlighted and tracked in time, including the onset time for the appearance of NPs and their movement over time. The results strongly implicate the rapid formation, surface diffusion and aggregation of smaller entities (not detectable optically) to produce the larger electrodeposited NPs. By applying SECCM tips of different size, it is also possible to understand how the wetted area (meniscus size) plays a key role in the number of NPs formed, with small tip sizes allowing the formation of single NPs. The SECCM‐IRM approach is expected to be a powerful platform for the study of myriad phase‐formation processes at the nanoscale, particularly by drawing on the possibility of making hundreds or thousands of measurements in fresh surface locations through SECCM technology.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Chemistry | |||||||||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | |||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Electroforming, Electroplating, Microscopy, Metal nanoparticles, Nucleation | |||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | ChemElectroChem | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA | |||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 2196-0216 | |||||||||||||||
Official Date: | 2 May 2023 | |||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 10 | |||||||||||||||
Number: | 9 | |||||||||||||||
Article Number: | e202201162 | |||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1002/celc.202201162 | |||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 March 2023 | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 March 2023 | |||||||||||||||
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