STUDY OF INTERNAL NANOPOROUS STRUCTURE AND EXTERNAL SURFACE OF BIMETALLIC NANOPARTICLES

Exemplifying on two bimetallic nanoparticles Cu — Pt and Au — Ag, the internal structure and external surface has been investigated in the process of dealloying. Equiatomic compositions with the total number of atoms Ntot = 3000 are considered. In the dealloying process half of both the copper and silver atoms were removed. The Monte Carlo method within the Metropolis scheme is used as a simulation method. The interatomic interaction was described by the tight-binding potential. As it was expected, the selective corrosion leads to the fact that the surface layer of the particle is enriched with one of the components atoms. However, the particle core retains the structure of the binary nanoalloy. We also found that as a result of the selective corrosion, a defective structure of the nanoparticle is formed. Accordingly, we assume that it is these defects (mainly vacancies) that lead to the porous structure of larger binary nanoparticles observed in experiments on the dealloying. A change in the specific surface area per unit volume or weight affects the adsorption and catalytic properties, as well as the corrosion resistance of bimetallic nanoparticles.

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