Free-standing 2D metals from binary metal alloys

Janne Nevalaita; Pekka Koskinen

doi:10.1063/5.0010884

Free-standing 2D metals from binary metal alloys

Materials Science 2020-07-03 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Authors: Janne Nevalaita , Pekka Koskinen

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Abstract

Recent experiment demonstrated the formation of free-standing Au monolayers by exposing Au-Ag alloy to electron beam irradiation. Inspired by this discovery, we used semi-empirical effective medium theory simulations to investigate monolayer formation in 30 different binary metal alloys composed of late d-series metals Ni, Cu, Pd, Ag, Pt, and Au. In qualitative agreement with the experiment, we find that the beam energy required to dealloy Ag atoms from Au-Ag alloy is smaller than the energy required to break the dealloyed Au monolayer. Our simulations suggest that similar method could also be used to form Au monolayers from Au-Cu alloy and Pt monolayers from Pt-Cu, Pt-Ni, and Pt-Pd alloys.

Keywords

alloy microstructure

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@article{arxiv.2007.01291,
  title  = {Free-standing 2D metals from binary metal alloys},
  author = {Janne Nevalaita and Pekka Koskinen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.01291},
  year   = {2020}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures

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