Lambie S, Steenbergen KG, Gaston N. Concentration dependent alloying behaviour of liquid GaAu.
Chem Commun (Camb) 2022;
58:13771-13774. [PMID:
36426656 DOI:
10.1039/d2cc04944a]
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Abstract
Liquid GaAu systems provide the possibility of developing dynamic and self-healing materials for a variety of applications, including catalysis. GaAu systems provide both dynamic capability by being liquid at just above room temperature, as a result of the Ga, and likely catalytic activity, resulting from the Au. While the formation of a Ga2Au intermetallic is known, the behaviours that result from lower Au concentrations within a liquid Ga solvent are hitherto unknown. Here, ab initio molecular dynamics are used to understand how different low concentrations of Au operate within a liquid Ga solvent. We determine that Au concentrations of between 15% Au wt and 25% Au wt will give rise to the highest abundance of stabilised single Au atoms.
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