Chakraborty, Nirman and Mondal, Swastik (2024) An approach to surface electron density-sensing property correlation in non-stoichiometric boron carbide. AIP Advances, 14 (4). ISSN 2158-3226

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Abstract

The key to most surface phenomena lies in the surface electron density. Particularly, it is the electron density distribution over the surface that primarily controls the overall interaction of the material with the external environment, say in processes like heterogeneous catalysis. Hence, a precise understanding of surface electron density is essential to understand and design improved surface active materials for catalysis and sensing. Surface structure has been determined primarily using surface sensitive techniques like high-energy surface x-ray diffraction (XRD), the crystal truncation rod scattering method, low-energy electron diffraction, scanning transmission electron microscopy, and grazing incidence small angle x-ray scattering. In this work, using aspherical electron density models of crystal structures in different molecular and extended solids, we show a convenient and complementary way of determining high-resolution experimental surface electron density distribution from conventional bulk x-ray diffraction data. The usefulness of our method has been validated by the surface functionality of boron carbide. While certain surfaces in boron carbide show the presence of substantial electron deficient centers, they are absent in others. Based on that, a new surface property of boron carbide has been inferred and has also been validated by chemiresistive gas sensing experiments. (c) 2024 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Basic Science
Divisions:	Nano-Structured Materials
Depositing User:	Ms Upasana Sahu
Date Deposited:	21 May 2024 05:54
Last Modified:	21 May 2024 05:54
URI:	http://cgcri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/5710

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