TY - GEN
T1 - Synthesis of nanoporous gold by chemical dealloying of co-sputtered gold-silver thin films and study of its variability
AU - Niauzorau, Stanislau
AU - Sharstniou, Aliaksandr
AU - Kublik, Natalya
AU - Sampath, Venkata Krishnan
AU - Azeredo, Bruno
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the use of facilities with the LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Science at Arizona State University and John M. Cowley High Resolution Electron Microscopy at Arizona State University.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2021 by ASME
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In the past two decades, nanoporous metals have attracted wide attention in the areas of energy storage, biomedicine and catalysis. Compared to other metals, nanoporous gold exhibits superior chemical stability, high catalytic activity, and its synthesis is facile and well documented. While many studies elaborate on the dealloying kinetics to understand process-structure relationships, its process variability is known to be large and yet not well documented. In this study, nanoporous gold was synthesized by chemical dealloying of co-sputtered gold-silver thin film. By controlling temperature and time during dealloying, its porosity characteristics, such as ligament diameter and solid area fraction, were controlled. Further, the time evolution of structural and elemental characteristics of nanoporous gold were examined including its correlation to silver residual content. It is found that mean diameters grow as a function of etch time from 25 to 60 nm. The large standard deviation (18.6 nm) of multiple dealloying attempts at any given temperature and dealloying time points to the lack of control in the kinetics of the dealloying reaction and variability in its substrate preparation and processing protocols. A comprehensive analysis of these parameters might provoke a better understanding of nanoporous gold synthesis in terms of the structure evolution kinetics.
AB - In the past two decades, nanoporous metals have attracted wide attention in the areas of energy storage, biomedicine and catalysis. Compared to other metals, nanoporous gold exhibits superior chemical stability, high catalytic activity, and its synthesis is facile and well documented. While many studies elaborate on the dealloying kinetics to understand process-structure relationships, its process variability is known to be large and yet not well documented. In this study, nanoporous gold was synthesized by chemical dealloying of co-sputtered gold-silver thin film. By controlling temperature and time during dealloying, its porosity characteristics, such as ligament diameter and solid area fraction, were controlled. Further, the time evolution of structural and elemental characteristics of nanoporous gold were examined including its correlation to silver residual content. It is found that mean diameters grow as a function of etch time from 25 to 60 nm. The large standard deviation (18.6 nm) of multiple dealloying attempts at any given temperature and dealloying time points to the lack of control in the kinetics of the dealloying reaction and variability in its substrate preparation and processing protocols. A comprehensive analysis of these parameters might provoke a better understanding of nanoporous gold synthesis in terms of the structure evolution kinetics.
KW - Dealloying
KW - Kinetics
KW - Nanoporous gold
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U2 - 10.1115/MSEC2021-60390
DO - 10.1115/MSEC2021-60390
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85112516069
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME 2021 16th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, MSEC 2021
BT - Manufacturing Processes; Manufacturing Systems; Nano/Micro/Meso Manufacturing; Quality and Reliability
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
T2 - ASME 2021 16th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, MSEC 2021
Y2 - 21 June 2021 through 25 June 2021
ER -