Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
5 years ago

Pressure-Induced Disordering in SnO2 Nanoparticles

Pressure-Induced Disordering in SnO2 Nanoparticles
Régis Debord, Helainne T. Girão, Denis Machon, Maria A. Caravaca, Stéphane Daniele, Patrice Mélinon, Ricardo A. Casali, Thibaut Cornier
The high-pressure behavior of SnO2 nanoparticles (∼2.8 nm) was studied up to approximately 20 GPa using Raman spectroscopy in a diamond anvil cell and ab initio simulations. Above ∼7 GPa, the disordering, initially located at the surface, was found to propagate to the core of nanoparticles, ultimately leading to amorphous-like spectra. This observation can be interpreted as a disordering of the oxygen sublattice sensitively probed by Raman spectroscopy in contrast to powder X-ray diffraction techniques. The low-frequency mode can be related to the nanoparticle vibration as an elastic isotropic sphere motion. The pressure-induced shift of this mode allows for the constraining of the mechanical properties data reported in the literature.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b04079

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b04079

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