Reshaping, intermixing, and coarsening for metallic nanocrystals: Nonequilibrium statistical mechanical and coarse-grained modeling

KC Lai, Y Han, P Spurgeon, W Huang, PA Thiel… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly of supported 2D or 3D nanocrystals (NCs) by vacuum deposition and of 3D
NCs by solution-phase synthesis (with possible subsequent transfer to a support) produces …

Toward a Nanoscale‐Defect‐Free Ni‐Rich Layered Oxide Cathode Through Regulated Pore Evolution for Long‐Lifespan Li Rechargeable Batteries

SH Song, HS Kim, KS Kim, S Hong… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ni‐rich layered oxides are envisioned as the most promising cathode materials for next‐
generation lithium‐ion batteries; however, their practical adoption is plagued by fast capacity …

Construction of inorganic bulks through coalescence of particle precursors

Z Mu, R Tang, Z Liu - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Bulk inorganic materials play important roles in human society, and their construction is
commonly achieved by the coalescence of inorganic nano-or micro-sized particles …

Unveiling the Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Pathway on RuP2 through Ab Initio Grand Canonical Monte Carlo

S Qin, S Banerjee, MG Sensoy, AM Rappe - ACS Catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this study, the high catalytic reactivity of ruthenium phosphide (RuP2) has been identified
by first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations for the electrocatalytic …

Nucleation-mediated reshaping of facetted metallic nanocrystals: Breakdown of the classical free energy picture

KC Lai, DJ Liu, JW Evans - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Shape stability is key to avoiding degradation of performance for metallic nanocrystals
synthesized with facetted non-equilibrium shapes to optimize properties for catalysis …

Kinetics, energetics, and size dependence of the transformation from Pt to ordered PtSn intermetallic nanoparticles

M Chen, Y Han, TW Goh, R Sun, RV Maligal-Ganesh… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The outstanding catalytic activity and chemical selectivity of intermetallic compounds make
them excellent candidates for heterogeneous catalysis. However, the kinetics of their …

Versatile stochastic model for predictive KMC simulation of fcc metal nanostructure evolution with realistic kinetics

Y Han, JW Evans - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Stochastic lattice-gas models provide the natural framework for analysis of the surface
diffusion-mediated evolution of crystalline metal nanostructures on the appropriate time …

Reshaping and sintering of 3D fcc metal nanoclusters: Stochastic atomistic modeling with realistic surface diffusion kinetics

KC Lai, JW Evans - Physical Review Materials, 2019 - APS
Far-from-equilibrium evolution of metallic nanocluster shapes is highly sensitive to the
atomistic-level details of surface diffusion for diverse local surface configurations. A …

Toward rational nanoparticle synthesis: predicting surface intermixing in bimetallic alloy nanocatalysts

LT Roling, M Mavrikakis - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a database of first-principles calculated activation energy barriers for two
competitive processes involving bimetallic adatom-surface permutations of ten transition …

Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of polycrystalline silver metal electrodeposition: scaling of roughness and effects of deposition parameters

H Ataalite, M Dardouri, A Arbaoui, A Fathi… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, a kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) technique was used to simulate the growth
morphology of electrodeposited polycrystalline Ag thin films under a galvanostatic condition …