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Extension of Rietveld Refinement for Benchtop Powder XRD Analysis of Ultrasmall Supported Nanoparticles

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Girgsdies,  Frank
Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Lipp, J., Banerjee, R., Patwary, M. F., Patra, N., Dong, A., Girgsdies, F., et al. (2022). Extension of Rietveld Refinement for Benchtop Powder XRD Analysis of Ultrasmall Supported Nanoparticles. Chemistry of Materials, 34(18), 8091-8111. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c00101.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-23C9-B
Abstract
We present a method for characterizing ultrasmall (<2 nm) supported crystallites with benchtop XRD. Central to the method is an understanding of the intensity effects at play; these intensity effects and their corrections are discussed in depth. Background subtraction─long considered one of the main barriers to ultrasmall crystal characterization─is solved by correcting the diffractogram of a separately measured support for the relevant intensity effects. Rietveld refinement is demonstrated to be an adequate analysis method for the general characterization of simple nanosystems. A 4.8% Pt/SiO2 sample (1.3 nm, volume-weighted average) is used as a case study; it is found that the Pt spontaneously oxidizes under ambient conditions and consists of a metallic core surrounded by a PtO2 shell. Both phases have average dimensions smaller than 1 nm. The XRD results also suggest lattice expansion of the Pt core as compared to bulk Pt.