Engineering of nanoscale defect patterns in CeO2 nanorods via ex situ and in situ annealing.
Engineering of nanoscale defect patterns in CeO2 nanorods via ex situ and in situ annealing.
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DOI:
10.1039/c4nr07308h
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发表时间:
2015-03
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6.7
通讯作者:
T. Sakthivel;D. Reid;U. Bhatta;G. Möbus;D. Sayle;S. Seal
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作者:
T. Sakthivel;D. Reid;U. Bhatta;G. Möbus;D. Sayle;S. Seal
Single-crystalline ceria nanorods were fabricated using a hydrothermal process and annealed at 325 °C-800 °C. As-synthesized CeO2 nanorods contain a high concentration of defects, such as oxygen vacancies and high lattice strains. Annealing resulted in an improved lattice crystalline quality along with the evolution of novel cavity-shaped defects in the nanorods with polyhedral morphologies and bound by e.g. {111} and {100} (internal) surfaces, confirmed for both air (ex situ) and vacuum (in situ) heating. We postulate that the cavities evolve via agglomeration of vacancies within the as-synthesized nanorods.