Dissolution of metal nanoparticles in glass under a dc electric fieldстатья
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Аннотация:The theory of electric-field-assisted dissolution of metal nanoparticles embedded in glass is presented. We demonstrate that the major mechanism of dissolution is associated with the ejection of ions and electrons caused by the ultrahigh electric field, which is built in the vicinity of a nanoparticle when the external electric field is applied and thermal poling of glass takes place. Our estimations show that for a silver nanoparticle embedded in soda-lime glass, the local electric field strength can be as high as 0.5Vnm(-1) and the nanoparticle dissolves in a few seconds. The developed theory reproduces well the experimental results on electric-field-assisted dissolution of silver nanoparticles in glass.