Communication—Monoatomic Amorphous Metals via Electrochemical Discharge Reduction

Jie Pan; Yan Bao; Hongkun Li; Zhengtao Xu; Fuqiang Huang; Haidong Bian; Jian Lu; Yang Yang Li

doi:10.1149/1945-7111/ad1558

Communication—Monoatomic Amorphous Metals via Electrochemical Discharge Reduction

Jie Pan, Yan Bao, Hongkun Li, Zhengtao Xu, Fuqiang Huang, Haidong Bian^*, Jian Lu^*, Yang Yang Li^*

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Monoatomic amorphous metals (MAM) are highly desirable for gaining fundamental understandings of amorphous metals. To date, only a handful of metals have been successfully made into MAMs, which, however, are either limited to very small yields/sample sizes (e.g., 10 nm) or highly unstable at ambient conditions. Here we report a simple and effective solution-based anodization method for synthesizing MAMs by rapidly reducing the corresponding metal ions during the discharge approach. MAMs are conveniently produced at a large quantity with a diameter up to the sub-micron scale, representing a drastically enhanced sample volume, opening new possibilities for the research of amorphous metals. © 2023 The Electrochemical Society (“ECS”). Published on behalf of ECS by IOP Publishing Limited.

Original language	English
Article number	122506
Journal	Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Volume	170
Issue number	12
Online published	29 Dec 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ad1558
Publication status	Published - 2023

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This work was jointly supported by the Innovation and Technology Commission of HKSAR through Hong Kong Branch of National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Centre, the City University of Hong Kong (Project 7005077), the NSFC (Project 51777178), and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone Shenzhen Park Project (HZQB-KCZYB-2020030).

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electrochemical engineering
electrosynthesis

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