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Mechanistic insight into gold nanorod transformation in nanoscale confinement of ZIF-8

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Core-shell hybrid nanomaterials have shown new properties and functions that are not attainable by their single counterparts. Nanoscale confinement effect by porous inorganic shells in the hybrid nanostructures plays an important role for chemical transformation of the core nanoparticles. However, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been rarely applied for understanding mechanical insight into such nanoscale phenomena in confinement, although MOFs would provide a variety of properties for the confining environment than other inorganic shells such as silica and zeolite. Here, we examine chemical transformation of a gold nanorod core enclosed by a zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF) through chemical etching and regrowth, followed by quantitative analysis in the core dimension and curvature. We find the nanorod core shows template-effective behavior in its morphological transformation. In the etching event, the nanorod core is spherically carved from its tips. The regrowth on the spherically etched core inside the ZIF gives rise to formation of a raspberry-like branched nanostructure in contrast to the growth of an octahedral shape in bulk condition. We attribute the shell-directed regrowth to void space generated at the interfaces between the etched core and the ZIF shell, intercrystalline gaps in multi-domain ZIF shells, and local structural deformation from the acidic reaction conditions.

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This work was supported by the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (No. 20192050100060) from the Korea government Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE) and the Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) National Research Facilities & Equipment Center (NFEC) (No. 2019R1A6C1010042) from the Ministry of Education of Korea. In addition, this work was partially supported by the Nano·Material Technology Development Program (No. 2009-0082580) and Basic Science Research Program (No. 2020R1C1C1007568) through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, Information & Communication Technology (ICT), and Future Planning.

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    Cheongwon Bae, Jaedeok Lee, Suhyeon Park, Yeonju Lee, Jieun Lee & Juyeong Kim

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Lehan Yao & Qian Chen

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    Qian Chen

  4. Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Qian Chen

  5. Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Qian Chen

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Bae, C., Lee, J., Yao, L. et al. Mechanistic insight into gold nanorod transformation in nanoscale confinement of ZIF-8. Nano Res. 14, 66–73 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3042-z

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