E. E. Doomes

Displacement Synthesis of Cu Shells Surrounding Co Nanoparticles

Copper shells were fabricated by a displacement method around Co nanoparticles (3.2 ′ 0.6 nm) at room temperature in a copper-citrate aqueous electrolyte. The nanoparticles were synthesized by a wet chemical approach using the surfactant sulfobetaine, dodecyldimethyl (3-sulfopropyl) ammonium hydroxide (98%) in tetrahydrofuran. X-ray absorption near-edge structure analysis confirmed that cobalt oxide was not present in the nanoparticles upon exposure to air, consistent with a shell formation. Additionally, the presence of the shell resulted in an increase of the blocking temperature of the core-shell nanoparticles, stabilizing the ferromagnetic behavior up to 235 K.

A grazing incidence surface X-ray absorption fine structure (GIXAFS) study of alkanethiols adsorbed on Au, Ag, and Cu

Abstract Self-assembled monolayers of n-alkanethiols, CH3–(CH2)x–SH, on Au, Ag, and Cu have been studied with GIXAFS at the sulfur K-edge. For both pentanethiol and decanethiol monolayers on Ag and Cu, the three-fold hollow site is found to be the most probable sulfur binding site. However, observations for octadecanethiol indicate that the three-fold hollow site is not the exclusive binding site. In addition, the possible existence of disulfide bonds on the metal surface (adsorbed dialkyldisulfides) is not supported by the data. Preliminary results from monolayers on Au are also reported.

Correlations between heterocycle ring size and x-ray spectra

X-ray absorption spectra are reported for two classes of ring systems, cyclic polymethylene sulfides and organochromium ring compounds with phosphorus-complexing bidentate ligands. For the cyclic polymethylene sulfides, spectra were acquired in the region of the sulfur K-edge. For the organochromium complexes, spectra were acquired at both the chromium K-edge and at the phosphorus K-edge. These systems allow one to interrogate how the spectra evolve as the bond angle about the absorbing atom is varied. Systematic trends are observed as a function of ring size/bond angle. For the cyclic sulfides, the peaks in the continuum above the sulfur K-edge shift to higher energy and broaden with increasing ring size. These continuum features are assigned to shape resonances. In the chromium K-edge measurements, changes in the P–Cr–C bond angle do not influence the spectra appreciably, indicating that the four carbonyl groups dominate the photoelectron scattering processes. However, the phosphorus K-edge spectra are ...