Direct TEM Observation of the “Acanthite α-Ag2S–Argentite β-Ag2S” Phase Transition in a Silver Sulfide Nanoparticle Full article
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Nanoscale Advances
ISSN: 2516-0230 |
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Output data | Year: 2019, Volume: 1, Number: 4, Pages: 1581-1588 Pages count : 8 DOI: 10.1039/c8na00347e | ||||
Tags | HEAT-CAPACITY; ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY; AG2S NANOCRYSTALS; THERMAL-EXPANSION; TRANSFORMATIONS; NONSTOICHIOMETRY; HETEROSTRUCTURES; MEMRISTORS; NANOSCALE; NANOWIRES | ||||
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1 | Russian Science Foundation | 14-23-00025 |
Abstract:
For the first time, the α-Ag2S (acanthite)–β-Ag2S (argentite) phase transition in a single silver sulfide nanoparticle has been observed in situ using a high-resolution transmission electron microscopy method in real time. Colloid solutions of Ag2S nanoparticles and nanostructured powders of silver sulfide have been synthesized by one-stage chemical bath deposition from an aqueous solution of silver nitrate, sodium sulfide and sodium citrate. Ag2S nanoparticles were heated to different temperatures directly in an electronic microscope by regulating the energy of the electron beam. This allowed observation of the transition of acanthite into argentite and the reversible transition of argentite into acanthite in real time, and this phase transition to be filmed. Temperature dependence of the lattice constant aarg of argentite β-Ag2S in the temperature range 448–723 K is established by in situ high-temperature X-ray diffraction. The orientation relationships between the monoclinic acanthite α-Ag2S and the body-centered cubic argentite β-Ag2S are determined. It is shown that the possible distances between silver atoms in cubic argentite, in contrast to those in acanthite, are too small for the positions of the metal sublattice to be occupied by Ag atoms with a probability equal to 1.
Cite:
Sadovnikov S.I.
, Gerasimov E.Y.
Direct TEM Observation of the “Acanthite α-Ag2S–Argentite β-Ag2S” Phase Transition in a Silver Sulfide Nanoparticle
Nanoscale Advances. 2019. V.1. N4. P.1581-1588. DOI: 10.1039/c8na00347e WOS Scopus РИНЦ
Direct TEM Observation of the “Acanthite α-Ag2S–Argentite β-Ag2S” Phase Transition in a Silver Sulfide Nanoparticle
Nanoscale Advances. 2019. V.1. N4. P.1581-1588. DOI: 10.1039/c8na00347e WOS Scopus РИНЦ
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Submitted: | Nov 13, 2018 |
Accepted: | Feb 9, 2019 |
Published online: | Feb 12, 2019 |
Published print: | Apr 1, 2019 |
Identifiers:
Web of science | WOS:000477089800034 |
Scopus | 2-s2.0-85072038671 |
Elibrary | 41635185 |
Chemical Abstracts | 2019:676910 |
PMID | 36132590 |
OpenAlex | W2913591576 |