scholarly journals Improved Models for Metallic Nanoparticle Cores from Atomic Pair Distribution Function (PDF) Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (51) ◽  
pp. 29498-29506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soham Banerjee ◽  
Chia-Hao Liu ◽  
Jennifer D. Lee ◽  
Anton Kovyakh ◽  
Viktoria Grasmik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Metallic Nanoparticle ◽  
Atomic Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Atomic Pair ◽  
Pdf Analysis

scholarly journals Structural Analysis of Ligand Protected Smaller Metallic Nanocrystals by Atomic Pair Distribution Function Under Precession Electron Diffraction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mozammel Hoque ◽  
Sandra Vergara ◽  
Partha P. Das ◽  
Daniel Ugarte ◽  
Ulises Santiago ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Electron Diffraction ◽  
Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Electron Diffraction Data ◽  
Face Centered Cubic ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Atomic Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Atomic Pair ◽  
Pdf Analysis ◽  
Precession Electron Diffraction

Atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis has been widely used to investigate nanocrystalline and structurally disordered materials. Experimental PDFs retrieved from electron diffraction (ePDF) in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) represent an attractive alternative to traditional PDF obtained from synchrotron X-ray sources, when employed on minute samples. Nonetheless, the inelastic scattering produced by the large dynamical effects of electron diffraction may obscure the interpretation of ePDF. In the present work, precession electron diffraction (PED-TEM) has been employed to obtain the ePDF of two different sub-monolayer samples ––lipoic acid protected (~ 4.5 nm) and hexanethiolated(~ 4.2 nm, ~ 400-kDa core mass) gold nanoparticles­­––randomly oriented and measured at both liquid-nitrogen and room temperatures, with high dynamic-range detection of a CMOS camera. The electron diffraction data were processed to obtain ePDFs which were subsequently compared with PDF of different ideal structure-models. The results demonstrate that the PED-ePDF data is sensitive to different crystalline structures such as monocrystalline (truncated octahedra) versus multiply-twinned (decahedra, icosahedra) structuresof the face-centered cubic gold lattice. The results indicate that PED reduces the residual from 46% to 29%; in addition, the combination of PED and low temperature further reduced the residual to 23%, which is comparable to X-ray PDF analysis. Furthermore, the inclusion of PED resulted in a better estimation of the coordination number from ePDF. To the best of our knowledge, the precessed electron-beam technique (PED) has not been previously applied to nanoparticles for analysis by the ePDF method.

Accurate Structure Determination of Mo6SyIzNanowires from Atomic Pair Distribution Function (PDF) Analysis

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Paglia ◽  
Emil S. Božin ◽  
Damjan Vengust ◽  
Dragan Mihailovic ◽  
Simon J. L. Billinge
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Structure Determination ◽  
Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Atomic Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Atomic Pair ◽  
Pdf Analysis

Quantifying amorphous and crystalline phase content with the atomic pair distribution function

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 332-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Peterson ◽  
James TenCate ◽  
Thomas Proffen ◽  
Timothy Darling ◽  
Heinz Nakotte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Complex Materials ◽  
Crystalline Phases ◽  
Crystalline Materials ◽  
Atomic Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Atomic Pair ◽  
Pdf Analysis ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Disordered Crystalline Materials

Pair distribution function (PDF) analysis is a long-established technique for studying the local structure of amorphous and disordered crystalline materials. In today's increasingly complex materials landscape, the coexistence of amorphous and crystalline phases within single samples is not uncommon. Though a couple of reports have been published studying samples with amorphous and crystalline phases utilizing PDF analysis, to date little has been done to determine the sensitivity that the method currently has in resolving such contributions. This article reports a series of experiments that have been conducted on samples with known ratios of crystalline quartz and amorphous glassy silica to examine this question in detail. Systematic methods are proposed to obtain the best possible resolution in samples with unknown phase ratios and some problems that one might encounter during analysis are discussed.

scholarly journals Structural Analysis of Ligand Protected Smaller Metallic Nanocrystals by Atomic Pair Distribution Function Under Precession Electron Diffraction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mozammel Hoque ◽  
Sandra Vergara ◽  
Partha P. Das ◽  
Daniel Ugarte ◽  
Ulises Santiago ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Electron Diffraction ◽  
Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Electron Diffraction Data ◽  
Face Centered Cubic ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Atomic Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Atomic Pair ◽  
Pdf Analysis ◽  
Precession Electron Diffraction

Atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis has been widely used to investigate nanocrystalline and structurally disordered materials. Experimental PDFs retrieved from electron diffraction (ePDF) in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) represent an attractive alternative to traditional PDF obtained from synchrotron X-ray sources, when employed on minute samples. Nonetheless, the inelastic scattering produced by the large dynamical effects of electron diffraction may obscure the interpretation of ePDF. In the present work, precession electron diffraction (PED-TEM) has been employed to obtain the ePDF of two different sub-monolayer samples ––lipoic acid protected (~ 4.5 nm) and hexanethiolated(~ 4.2 nm, ~ 400-kDa core mass) gold nanoparticles­­––randomly oriented and measured at both liquid-nitrogen and room temperatures, with high dynamic-range detection of a CMOS camera. The electron diffraction data were processed to obtain ePDFs which were subsequently compared with PDF of different ideal structure-models. The results demonstrate that the PED-ePDF data is sensitive to different crystalline structures such as monocrystalline (truncated octahedra) versus multiply-twinned (decahedra, icosahedra) structuresof the face-centered cubic gold lattice. The results indicate that PED reduces the residual from 46% to 29%; in addition, the combination of PED and low temperature further reduced the residual to 23%, which is comparable to X-ray PDF analysis. Furthermore, the inclusion of PED resulted in a better estimation of the coordination number from ePDF. To the best of our knowledge, the precessed electron-beam technique (PED) has not been previously applied to nanoparticles for analysis by the ePDF method.

scholarly journals A cloud platform for atomic pair distribution function analysis: PDFitc

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Long Yang ◽  
Elizabeth A. Culbertson ◽  
Nancy K. Thomas ◽  
Hung T. Vuong ◽  
Emil T. S. Kjær ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Atomic Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Atomic Pair ◽  
Pdf Analysis ◽  
Pearson Correlations ◽  
Best Fit

A cloud web platform for analysis and interpretation of atomic pair distribution function (PDF) data (PDFitc) is described. The platform is able to host applications for PDF analysis to help researchers study the local and nanoscale structure of nanostructured materials. The applications are designed to be powerful and easy to use and can, and will, be extended over time through community adoption and development. The currently available PDF analysis applications, structureMining, spacegroupMining and similarityMapping, are described. In the first and second the user uploads a single PDF and the application returns a list of best-fit candidate structures, and the most likely space group of the underlying structure, respectively. In the third, the user can upload a set of measured or calculated PDFs and the application returns a matrix of Pearson correlations, allowing assessment of the similarity between different data sets. structureMining is presented here as an example to show the easy-to-use workflow on PDFitc. In the future, as well as using the PDFitc applications for data analysis, it is hoped that the community will contribute their own codes and software to the platform.

scholarly journals Atomic pair distribution function analysis of materials containing crystalline and amorphous phases

2005 ◽  
Vol 220 (12/2005) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Proffen ◽  
Katharine L. Page ◽  
Sylvia E. McLain ◽  
Bjørn Clausen ◽  
Timothy W. Darling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Function ◽  
Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Amorphous Phases ◽  
Atomic Pair Distribution Function ◽  
Atomic Pair
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