Kinetic effects in the photomediated synthesis of silver nanodecahedra and nanoprisms: combined effect of wavelength and temperature.
Photomediated synthesis is a reliable, high yield method for the production of a variety of morphologies of silver nanoparticles. Here, we report synthesis of silver nanoprisms and nanodecahedra with tunable sizes via control of the reaction temperature and the irradiation wavelength. The results show that shorter excitation wavelengths and lower reaction temperatures result in high yields of nanodecahedra, while longer excitation wavelengths and higher reaction temperatures result in the formation of nanoprisms. The mechanism for the growth condition dependent evolution in the morphology of the silver particles is discussed as a kinetically controlled process. This is based on analysis of the reaction kinetics at various excitation wavelengths and temperatures. The energy barrier for the transformation from seeds to nanodecahedra is relatively high and requires a shorter wavelength. Thus longer wavelength illumination leads to the formation of nanoprisms. Thermodynamically stable five-fold twinning structures are shown to evolve from twin plane structures. The fast reaction rate at higher temperature favors the growth of nanoprisms by preferential Ag deposition on planar structures in a kinetics-controlled mode, while slower rates yield thermodynamically favored nanodecahedra.
Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials of MOE and State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Department of Materials Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, People's Republic of China. xqcui@jlu.edu.cn wtzheng@jlu.edu.cn.
Haitao
H
Wang
Xiaoqiang
X
Cui
Weiming
W
Guan
Xianliang
X
Zheng
Hetong
H
Zhao
Zhao
Z
Wang
Qiyu
Q
Wang
Tianyu
T
Xue
Chang
C
Liu
David J
DJ
Singh
Weitao
W
Zheng