2020/06/01 by Janne Nevalaita, Pekka Koskinen · 18 citations
Energy · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Alloy #Beam energy #Binary alloy #Binary number #Cathode ray #Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion #Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications #Metal #Monolayer #Nanoporous metals and alloys #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/5.0010884
published in AIP Advances 10(6) (American Institute of Physics) · 4 pages, 4 figures
openalex publication_date 2020/06/01 · arxiv created 2020/07/02 · openalex created_date 2020/07/02 · arxiv updated 2020/07/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Recent experiments have demonstrated the formation of free-standing Au monolayers by exposing the Au–Ag alloy to electron beam irradiation. Inspired by this discovery, we used semi-empirical effective medium theory simulations to investigate monolayer formation in 30 different binary metal alloys composed of late d-series metals such as Ni, Cu, Pd, Ag, Pt, and Au. In qualitative agreement with the experiment, we find that the beam energy required to dealloy Ag atoms from the Au–Ag alloy is smaller than the energy required to break the dealloyed Au monolayer. Our simulations suggest that a similar method could also be used to form Au monolayers from the Au–Cu alloy and Pt monolayers from Pt–Cu, Pt–Ni, and Pt–Pd alloys.