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Two-Way Alloying and Dealloying of Cadmium in Metalloid Gold Clusters
Wenhao Zhang1,2,3, Shengli Zhuang1,3, Lingwen Liao1,3
1Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Institute of Solid State Physics , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Hefei , Anhui 230031 , P. R. China.
Abstract:
The alloying of monometal nanoparticles with a transition element has recently attracted extensive interest; however, the dealloying of alloy nanoparticles has rarely been reported. Two-way alloying and dealloying in metal nanoparticles is not known so far to the best of our knowledge. In this work, for the first time, we successfully achieved two-way alloying and dealloying of cadmium in metalloid gold clusters via an antigalvanic reaction in combination with a quasi-antigalvanic reaction and demonstrated reactant-ion-dependent dealloying as well.
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