The common and intrinsic skin electric-double-layer (EDL) and its bonding characteristics of nanostructures

• Main Authors: Peng, Yuan, Tong, Zhibo, Yang, Yezi, Sun, Changqing
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Nanostrcture; Atomic Undercoordination
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161232
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We show that nanocrystals share a common and intrinsic skin electric-double-layer (EDL). The EDL is determined to be 2.14 regular-bond-length thick using differential phonon spectroscopy that distills phonon abundance transiting from the core region to the EDL of the sized crystals. Theoretical repr...