Interaction of nanoparticle properties and X-ray analytical techniques
| Autor: | Burkhard Beckhoff, Saeed Gholhaki, Quanmin Guo, Philipp Hönicke, Beatrix Pollakowski-Herrmann, Yves Kayser, Richard E. Palmer, Rainer Unterumsberger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Materials science
Silicon X-ray Analytical chemistry chemistry.chemical_element Nanoparticle FOS: Physical sciences Physics - Applied Physics 02 engineering and technology Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences XANES 0104 chemical sciences Analytical Chemistry Amorphous solid Standing wave chemistry 0210 nano-technology Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) Spectroscopy Intensity (heat transfer) |
| Popis: | In this work, Pt-Ti core-shell nanoparticles (NP) of 2 nm to 3 nm in size and 30000 u \pm 1500 u as specified single particle mass, deposited on flat silicon substrates by means of a mass-selected cluster beam source, were used for the investigation of the modification of the X-Ray Standing Wave (XSW) field intensity with increasing NP surface coverage. The focus of the investigation is on the determination of the range of validity of the undisturbed flat surface approach of the XSW intensity in dependence of the actual coverage rate of the surface. Therefore, the nanoparticles were characterized using reference-free grazing incidence X-ray fluorescence analysis (GIXRF) employing radiometrically calibrated instrumentation. In addition, near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) measurements were performed to investigate the binding state of titanium in the core-shell nanoparticles which was found to be amorphous TiO2. The combination of GIXRF measurements and of the calculated XSW field intensities allow for a quantification of the core-shell nanoparticle surface coverage. For six different samples, the peak surface coverage could be determined to vary from 7 % to 130 % of a complete monolayer-equivalent coverage. A result of the current investigation is that core-shell nanoparticles modify the intensity distribution of the XSW field with increasing surface coverage. This experimental result is in line with calculated XSW field intensity distributions at different surface coverages using an effective density approach. Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures and 3 tables |
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