Homoepitaxial Size Control and Large-Scale Synthesis of Highly Monodisperse Amine-Protected Palladium Nanoparticles
Homoepitaxial Size Control and Large-Scale Synthesis of Highly Monodisperse Amine-Protected Palladium Nanoparticles
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DOI:
10.1002/smll.201001685
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发表时间:
2011-02-18
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13.3
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Teranishi, Toshiharu
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Sato, Ryota;Kanehara, Masayuki;Teranishi, Toshiharu
ligands is reported. The monodisperse Pd NPs were synthesized by chemical reduction of Pd precursors under simple and mild conditions. The resulting Pd NPs self-assembled into six-fold symmetrical superlattice structures due to their high monodispersity. The size of the Pd NPs could be precisely controlled from 2 to 5 nm by in-situ homoepitaxial growth. In a large-scale synthesis this method provided a high yield (> 90%) of almost 0.5 g of Pd NPs without changing the size or dispersity. The amine-protected Pd NPs have potential as structural units for the formation of heterostructures, such as Pd/γ-Fe 2O 3 heterostructured NPs. The Pd NPs were synthesized by injection of tetrabutylammonium borohydride (TBAB, 1.5 mmol) dissolved in chloroform (2 mL) into a mixture of palladium (II) acetate (0.5 mmol), oleylamine (OAm, 10 mmol), and oleic acid (OAc, 10 mmol) at 50 C under air. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images of the Pd NPs (Figure 1a, b) showed that they have a mean diameter of 3.0 nm and a narrow size distribution (standard deviation σ= 6.7%). The purified NPs were readily redispersed in chloroform, tetrahydrofuran, toluene, n-hexane, and other nonpolar solvents. High-resolution TEM (HRTEM) analysis (Figure 1c) revealed the Pd NPs had many grain boundaries and were polycrystalline. From their powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) pattern (Figure 1d) the Pd NPs were identified as face-centered cubic (fcc) Pd. The diffraction angles of the Pd NPs in Figure 1d (eg 2 θ (111)= 39.740) were shifted toward lower angles as compared with bulk Pd (eg 2 θ (111)= 40.115, JCPDS 00–005-0681). This indicates that the Pd–Pd interatomic distance increased after formation of the Pd NPs, which is consistent with a previous report.[10a] The intensity ratios of the (200) and (220) diffraction peaks to the (111) peak in the PXRD pattern were 0.10 and 0.04, respectively, much lower than those for a conventional powder sample (0.42 and 0.25, respectively). This suggests that the synthesized Pd NPs are rich in {111} planes. The mean crystalline size was calculated at 1.7 nm using the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the (111) peak in Figure 1d (FWHM (111)= 5.0) and the Scherrer equation. This is smaller than the mean particle size of 3.0 nm estimated from TEM, which indicates that the Pd NPs are polycrystalline in accordance with the HRTEM observation. Both OAm and OAc could act as protective ligands for the Pd NPs synthesized by this method, and the ligands protecting the Pd NPs were investigated by 1H-NMR. At first, the alkene hydrogen chemical shifts were monitored for this, because it is quite difficult to detect the NMR