scholarly journals Near-equilibrium growth from borophene edges on silver

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. eaax0246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuhua Zhang ◽  
Andrew J. Mannix ◽  
Xiaolong Liu ◽  
Zhili Hu ◽  
Nathan P. Guisinger ◽  
...  

Two-dimensional boron, borophene, was realized in recent experiments but still lacks an adequate growth theory for guiding its controlled synthesis. Combining ab initio calculations and experimental characterization, we study edges and growth kinetics of borophene on Ag(111). In equilibrium, the borophene edges are distinctly reconstructed with exceptionally low energies, in contrast to those of other two-dimensional materials. Away from equilibrium, sequential docking of boron feeding species to the reconstructed edges tends to extend the given lattice out of numerous polymorphic structures. Furthermore, each edge can grow via multiple energy pathways of atomic row assembly due to variable boron-boron coordination. These pathways reveal different degrees of anisotropic growth kinetics, shaping borophene into diverse elongated hexagonal islands in agreement with experimental observations in terms of morphology as well as edge orientation and periodicity. These results further suggest that ultrathin borophene ribbons can be grown at low temperature and low boron chemical potential.

1998 ◽  
Vol 536 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Wong ◽  
J. E. Bonevich ◽  
P. C. Searson

AbstractColloidal chemistry techniques were used to synthesize ZnO particles in the nanometer size regime. The particle aging kinetics were determined by monitoring the optical band edge absorption and using the effective mass model to approximate the particle size as a function of time. We show that the growth kinetics of the ZnO particles follow the Lifshitz, Slyozov, Wagner theory for Ostwald ripening. In this model, the higher curvature and hence chemical potential of smaller particles provides a driving force for dissolution. The larger particles continue to grow by diffusion limited transport of species dissolved in solution. Thin films were fabricated by constant current electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of the ZnO quantum particles from these colloidal suspensions. All the films exhibited a blue shift relative to the characteristic green emission associated with bulk ZnO. The optical characteristics of the particles in the colloidal suspensions were found to translate to the films.


Author(s):  
Dancheng Zhu ◽  
Haibo Shu ◽  
Feng Jiang ◽  
Danhui Lv ◽  
Vijayshankar Asokan ◽  
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Author(s):  
Qiao Chen ◽  
Jingyun Weng ◽  
Gabriele Sadowski ◽  
Yuanhui Ji

The influence of temperature, stirring speed, and excipients on crystal growth kinetics of mesalazine and allopurinol was investigated through experiment and chemical potential gradient model. The results indicated that the Diffusion-Surface Reaction model (DSR (1,2)) showed good performance in modeling API crystal growth kinetics within the ARDs of 4%. Excipients played a crucial role in inhibiting crystal growth in all the systems. It can not only improve the API solubility, but also reduce the crystal growth rate. By comparing diffusion rate and surface-reaction rate constant within the DSR (1,2) model, it was found that the controlling step of mesalazine crystallization was surface-reaction. Allopurinol crystallization was dominated by both surface-reaction and diffusion. Meanwhile, the crystal growth kinetics of mesalazine and allopurinol were predicted successfully with the ARDs of 2.53% and 4.78%. This work provided a mechanistic understanding of polymer influence on the inhibition of API crystal growth.


Author(s):  
Ruiqi Zhao ◽  
Xue Wei ◽  
Hongxia Zhu ◽  
Simei Li ◽  
Huanhuan Li

Graphene-like two dimensional (2D) monolayers constructed with β-structured Group 15 (β-G15) elements have attracted great interests due to their intrinsic bandgaps, thermodynamic stabilities and high mobilities. Quite different from graphene,...


Author(s):  
Yanan Zhou ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Xiaoping Gao ◽  
Wei Chu ◽  
Guoping Gao ◽  
...  

As a half-reaction of electrolytic water-splitting for hydrogen generation, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the major bottleneck due to its sluggish kinetics of the four-electron transfer reactions. Developing high-efficiency...


Nano Letters ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 2886-2891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Arias ◽  
Abbas Ebnonnasir ◽  
Cristian V. Ciobanu ◽  
Suneel Kodambaka

Author(s):  
Shiro Fujishiro ◽  
Harold L. Gegel

Ordered-alpha titanium alloys having a DO19 type structure have good potential for high temperature (600°C) applications, due to the thermal stability of the ordered phase and the inherent resistance to recrystallization of these alloys. Five different Ti-Al-Ga alloys consisting of equal atomic percents of aluminum and gallium solute additions up to the stoichiometric composition, Ti3(Al, Ga), were used to study the growth kinetics of the ordered phase and the nature of its interface.The alloys were homogenized in the beta region in a vacuum of about 5×10-7 torr, furnace cooled; reheated in air to 50°C below the alpha transus for hot working. The alloys were subsequently acid cleaned, annealed in vacuo, and cold rolled to about. 050 inch prior to additional homogenization


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