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Hydroxylation-driven surface reconstruction at the origin of compressive-to-tensile stress transition in metal oxide nanoparticles

Yang Hu1,2*, Vladyslav Turlo3,2*

1 Laboratory for Advanced Materials Processing, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Thun, Switzerland

2 National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials MARVEL, Empa, Thun, Switzerland

3 Laboratory for Advanced Materials Processing, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH-3603 Thun, Bern, Switzerland

* Corresponding authors emails: yang.hu@empa.ch, vladyslav.turlo@empa.ch
DOI10.24435/materialscloud:7d-ns [version v1]

Publication date: Mar 07, 2025

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Yang Hu, Vladyslav Turlo, Hydroxylation-driven surface reconstruction at the origin of compressive-to-tensile stress transition in metal oxide nanoparticles, Materials Cloud Archive 2025.35 (2025), https://doi.org/10.24435/materialscloud:7d-ns

Description

Experiments reveal negative (non-Laplacian) surface stresses in metal oxide nanoparticles, partly associated with humidity during fabrication and annealing. Using a neural network interatomic potential for MgO, we prove that water adsorption induces surface hydroxylation, shifting facets from {100} to {110} to {111} and switching the average surface stress from positive to negative. Predicted lattice strains versus nanoparticle size agree well with experiments, clarifying experimental correlations. The new framework informs broad applications in catalysis, sensors, batteries, and biomedicine.

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Y. Hu, V. Turlo, ArXiv (2025)

Keywords

nanoparticles surface stress surface reconstruction XRD MARVEL/P1

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2025.35 (version v1) [This version] Mar 07, 2025 DOI10.24435/materialscloud:7d-ns