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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of the American Chemical Society Année : 2023

Heterostructured Cobalt Silicide Nanocrystals: Synthesis in Molten Salts, Ferromagnetism, and Electrocatalysis

Isabel Gómez-Recio
Daniel Janisch
Capucine Sassoye
Andrea Zitolo
Benedikt Lassalle-Kaiser
David Portehault

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Nanoscale heterostructures of covalent intermetallics should give birth to a wide range of interface-driven physical and chemical properties. Such a level of design however remains unattainable for most of these compounds, due to the difficulty to reach a crystalline order of covalent bonds at the moderate temperatures required for colloidal chemistry. Herein, we design heterostructured cobalt silicide nanoparticles to trigger magnetic and catalytic properties in silicon-based materials. Our strategy consists in controlling the diffusion of cobalt atoms into silicon nanoparticles, by reacting these particles in molten salts. By adjusting the temperature, we tune the conversion of the initial silicon particles toward homogeneous CoSi nanoparticles and core–shell nanoparticles made of a CoSi shell and a silicon-rich core. The increased interface-to-volume ratio of the CoSi component in the core–shell particles yields distinct properties compared to the bulk and homogeneous nanoparticles. First, the core–shell particles exhibit increased ferromagnetism, despite the bulk diamagnetic properties of cobalt monosilicide. Second, the core–shell nanoparticles act as efficient precatalysts for alkaline water oxidation, where the nanostructure is converted in situ into a layered cobalt silicon oxide/(oxy)hydroxide with high and stable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalytic activity. This work demonstrates a route to design heterostructured nanocrystals of covalent intermetallic compounds and shows that these new structures exhibit very rich, yet poorly explored, interface-based physical properties and reactivity.
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hal-04199618 , version 1 (07-09-2023)

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Yang Song, Isabel Gómez-Recio, Anissa Ghoridi, Fernando Igoa Saldaña, Daniel Janisch, et al.. Heterostructured Cobalt Silicide Nanocrystals: Synthesis in Molten Salts, Ferromagnetism, and Electrocatalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023, 145 (35), pp.19207-19217. ⟨10.1021/jacs.3c01110⟩. ⟨hal-04199618⟩
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