We report a facile and reproducible approach toward rapid seedless synthesis of single crystalline gold nanoplates with edge length on the order of microns.The reaction is carried out by reducing gold ions with ascorb...We report a facile and reproducible approach toward rapid seedless synthesis of single crystalline gold nanoplates with edge length on the order of microns.The reaction is carried out by reducing gold ions with ascorbic acid in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide(CTAB).Reaction temperature and molar ratio of CTAB/Au are critical for the formation of gold nanoplates in a high yield,which are,respectively,optimized to be 85 °C and 6.The highest yield that can be achieved is 60 % at the optimized condition.The synthesis to achieve the microscaled gold nanoplates can be finished in less than 1 h under proper reaction conditions.Therefore,the reported synthesis approach is a time-and costeffective one.The gold nanoplates were further employed as the surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates and investigated individually.Interestingly,only those adsorbed with gold nanoparticles exhibit pronounced Raman signals of probe molecules,where a maximum enhancement factor of 1.7 9 10~7 was obtained.The obtained Raman enhancement can be ascribed to the plasmon coupling between the gold nanoplate and the nanoparticle adsorbed onto it.展开更多
Li_(6.4)La_(3)Zr_(1.4)Ta_(0.6)O_(12)(LLZTO) is a promising inorganic solid electrolyte due to its high Li+conductivity and electrochemical stability for all-solid-state batteries.Mechanical characterization of LLZTO i...Li_(6.4)La_(3)Zr_(1.4)Ta_(0.6)O_(12)(LLZTO) is a promising inorganic solid electrolyte due to its high Li+conductivity and electrochemical stability for all-solid-state batteries.Mechanical characterization of LLZTO is limited by the synthesis of the condensed phase.Here we systematically measure the elastic modules,hardness,and fracture toughness of LLZTO poly crystalline pellets of different densities using the customized environmental nanoindentation.The LLZTO samples are sintered using the hot-pressing method with different amounts of Li2CO3 additives,resulting in the relative density of the pellets varying from 83% to 98% and the largest grain size of 13.21 ± 5.22 μm.The mechanical properties show a monotonic increase as the sintered sample densifies,elastic modulus and hardness reach 158.47± 10.10 GPa and 11.27± 1.38 GPa,respectively,for LLZTO of 98% density.Similarly,fracture toughness increases from 0.44 to 1.51 MPa·m^(1/2),showing a transition from the intergranular to transgranular fracture behavior as the pellet density increases.The ionic conductivity reaches 4.54 × 10^(-4 )S/cm in the condensed LLZTO which enables a stable Li plating/stripping in a symmetric solid-state cell for over 100 cycles.This study puts forward a quantitative study of the mechanical behavior of LLZTO of different microstructures that is relevant to the mechanical stability and electrochemical performance of all-solid-state batteries.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Grants 21271181 and 21473240)Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Intergovernmental S&T Cooperation Project,Grant No.6–10)the Thousand Youth Talents Program of China
文摘We report a facile and reproducible approach toward rapid seedless synthesis of single crystalline gold nanoplates with edge length on the order of microns.The reaction is carried out by reducing gold ions with ascorbic acid in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide(CTAB).Reaction temperature and molar ratio of CTAB/Au are critical for the formation of gold nanoplates in a high yield,which are,respectively,optimized to be 85 °C and 6.The highest yield that can be achieved is 60 % at the optimized condition.The synthesis to achieve the microscaled gold nanoplates can be finished in less than 1 h under proper reaction conditions.Therefore,the reported synthesis approach is a time-and costeffective one.The gold nanoplates were further employed as the surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates and investigated individually.Interestingly,only those adsorbed with gold nanoparticles exhibit pronounced Raman signals of probe molecules,where a maximum enhancement factor of 1.7 9 10~7 was obtained.The obtained Raman enhancement can be ascribed to the plasmon coupling between the gold nanoplate and the nanoparticle adsorbed onto it.
基金Supported by the National Science Foundation(Grant Nos.CMMI-1726392 and DMR-1832707)at Purdue University。
文摘Li_(6.4)La_(3)Zr_(1.4)Ta_(0.6)O_(12)(LLZTO) is a promising inorganic solid electrolyte due to its high Li+conductivity and electrochemical stability for all-solid-state batteries.Mechanical characterization of LLZTO is limited by the synthesis of the condensed phase.Here we systematically measure the elastic modules,hardness,and fracture toughness of LLZTO poly crystalline pellets of different densities using the customized environmental nanoindentation.The LLZTO samples are sintered using the hot-pressing method with different amounts of Li2CO3 additives,resulting in the relative density of the pellets varying from 83% to 98% and the largest grain size of 13.21 ± 5.22 μm.The mechanical properties show a monotonic increase as the sintered sample densifies,elastic modulus and hardness reach 158.47± 10.10 GPa and 11.27± 1.38 GPa,respectively,for LLZTO of 98% density.Similarly,fracture toughness increases from 0.44 to 1.51 MPa·m^(1/2),showing a transition from the intergranular to transgranular fracture behavior as the pellet density increases.The ionic conductivity reaches 4.54 × 10^(-4 )S/cm in the condensed LLZTO which enables a stable Li plating/stripping in a symmetric solid-state cell for over 100 cycles.This study puts forward a quantitative study of the mechanical behavior of LLZTO of different microstructures that is relevant to the mechanical stability and electrochemical performance of all-solid-state batteries.
