Synergistic Strain Engineering Effect of Hybrid Plasmonic, Catalytic, and Magnetic Core鈥揝hell Nanocrystals

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Maogang Gong ; Xin Jin ; Ridwan Sakidja ; Shenqiang Ren
• 刊名：Nano Letters
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 9, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：15
• 期：12
• 页码：8347-8353
• 全文大小：543K
• ISSN：1530-6992

文摘

Hybrid core鈥搒hell nanocrystals, consisting of distinct components, represent an emerging functional material system, which could facilitate synergistic coupling effects via integrating drastically different functionalities. Here we report a unique strain engineering effect induced by phase transformation between plasmonic core and magnetic shell materials, which leads to a facile surface reconstruction of bimetallic core鈥搒hell nanocrystals to enhance their synergistic magnetic and catalytic properties. This advancement dramatically results in two orders of magnitude enhancement in magnetic coercivity and significant improvement in catalytic activity. Mechanistic studies involving the kinetic measurement and theoretical modeling uncover a structural distortion and surface rearrangement mechanism during the core鈥搒hell phase transformation pathway. This facile methodology could potentially open up the new design of multifunctional artificial hybrid nanostructures by the combination of phase transformation and surface engineering for emerging technological applications.