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Tracking the Mn Diffusion in the Carbon-Supported Nanoparticles Through the Collaborative Analysis of Atom Probe and Evaporation Simulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2022

Chanwon Jung ,
Hosun Jun Open the ORCID record for Hosun Jun [Opens in a new window] ,
Kyuseon Jang ,
Se-Ho Kim Open the ORCID record for Se-Ho Kim [Opens in a new window]  and
Pyuck-Pa Choi
Chanwon Jung
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf 40237, Germany
Hosun Jun
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
Kyuseon Jang
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
Se-Ho Kim
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf 40237, Germany
Pyuck-Pa Choi*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
*
*Corresponding author: Pyuck-Pa Choi, E-mail: p.choi@kaist.ac.kr
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Abstract

Carbon-supported nanoparticles have been used widely as efficient catalysts due to their enhanced surface-to-volume ratio. To investigate their structure–property relationships, acquiring 3D elemental distribution is required. Here, carbon-supported Pt, PtMn alloy, and ordered Pt3Mn nanoparticles are synthesized and analyzed with atom probe tomography as model systems. A significant difference of Mn distribution after the heat-treatment was found. Finally, the field evaporation behavior of the carbon support was discussed and each acquired reconstruction was compared with computational results from an evaporation simulation. This paper provides a guideline for studies using atom probe tomography on the heterogeneous carbon-supported nanoparticle system that leads to insights toward a wide variety of applications.

Keywords

atom probe tomographycarbon-supported nanoparticlesfield evaporation simulationintermetallic compoundslocal magnification effect
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Materials Science Applications
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 28 , Issue 6 , December 2022 , pp. 1841 - 1850
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Microscopy Society of America

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

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