Effect of surface pressurization on the growth of -Fe2O3 nanostructures
By suitably pressurizing iron substrates under different conditions, the resulting -Fe 2 O 3 nanostructures, formed by its direct thermal oxidation, can gradually change in succession from nanowires to nanoleaves and to micropillars as the pressure is increased. The inter-relation between the pressu...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Nanoscale 2012-01, Vol.4 (1), p.257-26 |
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Zusammenfassung: | By suitably pressurizing iron substrates under different conditions, the resulting -Fe
2
O
3
nanostructures, formed by its direct thermal oxidation, can gradually change in succession from nanowires to nanoleaves and to micropillars as the pressure is increased. The inter-relation between the pressure conditions and the resulting nanostructure is studied by density functional calculations using ultrasoft pseudopotentials with a plane-wave basis method and with the generalized gradient approximation (GGA). It is shown that the shape of the formed nanostructures is primarily determined by the anisotropic activation energy and, as the latter is lowered, there is a shape change from wire to pillar. A simulation model of diffusion using the Monte Carlo method is applied in the 3-D (dimensional) case to show how the anisotropic activation energy influences the growth process of the -Fe
2
O
3
nanostructure. The present study provides a way to control the shape of the nanostructures grown by the thermal-oxidation method.
Pressurization of the iron substrate sensitively influences the shape of the -Fe
2
O
3
nanostructures formed by its thermal oxidation. |
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ISSN: | 2040-3364 2040-3372 |
DOI: | 10.1039/c1nr11298h |