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| author | Qian, Chang Stanifer, Ethan Ma, Zhan Luo, Binbin Liu, Chang Yao, Lehan Pan, Wenxiao Mao, Xiaoming Chen, Qian |
| author_facet | Qian, Chang Stanifer, Ethan Ma, Zhan Luo, Binbin Liu, Chang Yao, Lehan Pan, Wenxiao Mao, Xiaoming Chen, Qian |
| contents | Topologically-engineered mechanical frames are important model constructs for architecture, machine mechanisms, and metamaterials. Despite significant advances in macroscopically fashioned frames, realization and phonon imaging of nanoframes have remained challenging. Here we extend for the first time the principles of topologically-engineered mechanical frames to lattices self-assembled from nanoparticles. Liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy images the vibrations of nanoparticles in self-assembled Maxwell and hexagonal lattices at the nanometer resolution, measuring a series of otherwise inaccessible properties such as phonon spectra and nonlinear lattice deformation paths. These properties are experimentally modulated by ionic strength, captured by our discrete mechanical model considering the complexity of nanoscale interactions and thermal fluctuations. The experiment-theory integration bridges mechanical metamaterials and colloidal self-assembly, opening new opportunities to manufacture phononic devices with solution processibility, transformability, light weight, and emergent functions, at underexplored length, frequency, and energy scales. |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | Nanoscale Imaging of Phonons and Reconfiguration in Topologically-Engineered, Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Lattice Qian, Chang Stanifer, Ethan Ma, Zhan Luo, Binbin Liu, Chang Yao, Lehan Pan, Wenxiao Mao, Xiaoming Chen, Qian Materials Science Topologically-engineered mechanical frames are important model constructs for architecture, machine mechanisms, and metamaterials. Despite significant advances in macroscopically fashioned frames, realization and phonon imaging of nanoframes have remained challenging. Here we extend for the first time the principles of topologically-engineered mechanical frames to lattices self-assembled from nanoparticles. Liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy images the vibrations of nanoparticles in self-assembled Maxwell and hexagonal lattices at the nanometer resolution, measuring a series of otherwise inaccessible properties such as phonon spectra and nonlinear lattice deformation paths. These properties are experimentally modulated by ionic strength, captured by our discrete mechanical model considering the complexity of nanoscale interactions and thermal fluctuations. The experiment-theory integration bridges mechanical metamaterials and colloidal self-assembly, opening new opportunities to manufacture phononic devices with solution processibility, transformability, light weight, and emergent functions, at underexplored length, frequency, and energy scales. |
| title | Nanoscale Imaging of Phonons and Reconfiguration in Topologically-Engineered, Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Lattice |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15627 |