Insights into the Synthesis Mechanisms of Ag-Cu₃P-GaP Multicomponent Nanoparticles.

ABSTRACT: Metal-semiconductor nanoparticle heterostructures are exciting materials for photocatalytic applications. Phase and facet engineering are critical for designing highly efficient catalysts. Therefore, understanding processes occurring during the nanostructure synthesis is crucial to gain control over properties such as the surface and interface facets' orientations, morphology, and crystal structure. However, the characterization of nanostructures after the synthesis makes clarifying their formation mechanisms nontrivial and sometimes even impossible. In this study, we used an environmental transmission electron microscope with an integrated metal-organic chemical vapor deposition system to enlighten fundamental dynamic processes during the Ag-Cu₃P-GaP nanoparticle synthesis usin

SUBMITTER: Seifner MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10134500 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature