Precise control of alloying sites of bimetallic nanoclusters via surface motif exchange reaction

Qiaofeng Yao; Yan Feng; Victor Fung; Yong Yu; De-en Jiang; Jun Yang; Jianping Xie

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01736-5

Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Precise control of alloying sites of bimetallic nanoclusters via surface motif exchange reaction

Qiaofeng Yao,
Yan Feng,
Victor Fung,
Yong Yu,
De-en Jiang,
Jun Yang,
Jianping Xie

Affiliations

Qiaofeng Yao: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore
Yan Feng: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore
Victor Fung: Department of Chemistry, University of California
Yong Yu: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore
De-en Jiang: Department of Chemistry, University of California
Jun Yang: State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Complex Systems, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jianping Xie: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01736-5
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Doping metal nanoclusters at specific sites is a powerful strategy for tuning their properties. Here, the authors precisely control the alloying sites of bimetallic nanoclusters by replacing entire surface motifs with structurally similar heteroatom motifs, tuning the surface composition motif-by-motif rather than atom-by-atom.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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