On the Morphology and Stability of Au Nanoparticles on TiO2(110) Prepared from Micelle-Stabilized Precursors
- 1 August 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Langmuir
- Vol. 22 (18), 7873-7880
- https://doi.org/10.1021/la0610102
Abstract
The morphology and stability of well-ordered, nanostructured Au/TiO2(110) surfaces, prepared by deposition of Au loaded micelles on TiO2(110) substrates and subsequent oxidative removal of the polymer shell in an oxygen plasma, was investigated by noncontact AFM, SEM and XPS. The resulting arrays of Au nanoparticles (particle sizes 1-5 nm) form a nearly hexagonal pattern with well-defined interparticle distances and a narrow particle size distribution. Particle size and particle separation can be controlled independently by varying the Au loading and the block- copolymers in the micelle shell. The oxygen plasma treatment does not affect the size and distance of the Au nanoparticles; the latter are fully metallic after subsequent UHV annealing (400 °C). The particles are stable under typical CO oxidation reaction conditions, up to at least 200°C, making these surfaces ideally suited as defined model systems for catalytic studies. Significant changes in the height distributions of the Au nanoparticles are found upon 400 °C annealing in O2. For adlayers with small interparticle distances, this leads to a bimodal particle size distribution, which together with the preservation of the lateral order points to Ostwald ripening.Keywords
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