Towards bottom-up nanopatterning of Prussian blue analogues

Virgile Trannoy; Marco Faustini; David Grosso; Sandra Mazerat; François Brisset; Alexandre Dazzi; Anne Bleuzen

doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.204

Towards bottom-up nanopatterning of Prussian blue analogues

Beilstein J Nanotechnol. 2014 Oct 31:5:1933-43. doi: 10.3762/bjnano.5.204. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Virgile Trannoy¹, Marco Faustini², David Grosso², Sandra Mazerat¹, François Brisset¹, Alexandre Dazzi³, Anne Bleuzen¹

Affiliations

¹ Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay,UMR CNRS 8182, Université Paris-Sud, 15 rue Georges Clémenceau, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.
² Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 and CNRS Collège de France, 11 place Berthelot 75231 Paris, France.
³ Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, UMR CNRS 8000, Université Paris-Sud, 15 avenue Jen Perrin, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.

Abstract

Ordered nanoperforated TiO2 monolayers fabricated through sol-gel chemistry were used to grow isolated particles of Prussian blue analogues (PBA). The elaboration of the TiO2/CoFe PBA nanocomposites involves five steps. The samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), infrared spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) all along the synthesis process. Selected physico-chemical parameters have been varied in order to determine the key steps of the synthesis process and to optimize it. This study is an important step towards the full control of the fabrication process.

Keywords: Prussian blue analogues; nanopatterning; nanoperforated oxide monolayer.