Structure-Dependent Chemical Order Modification in Strained Alloy Nanoparticles
Abstract
Alloy nanoparticles (nanoalloys) exhibit tuneable physicochemical properties that depend sensitively on their atomic arrangement, making control over chemical ordering a central challenge in nanomaterials design. While most theoretical studies consider nanoalloys in vacuum, practical systems are typically supported, where strong cluster-substrate interactions can introduce significant lattice strain. Here, we investigate strain as a control parameter for chemical ordering in bimetallic nanoalloys using atomistic molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. By imposing controlled tensile and compressive strain through an implicit anchored interface, we systematically probe the response of NiPt nanoparticles with distinct structural motifs. For truncated octahedral particles, we find that chemical ordering and segregation behaviour remain remarkably robust even under large strains, indicating that intrinsic thermodynamic preferences dominate. In contrast, icosahedral nanoparticles exhibit pronounced strain-induced chemical redistribution, with a significant increase in surface Ni concentration under tensile strain. This behaviour is attributed to the combined effects of intrinsic geometric frustration and a high fraction of undercoordinated sites in icosahedral structures. Our results demonstrate that strain can selectively modulate chemical ordering in nanoalloys in a structure-dependent manner, establishing a general framework for understanding strain-induced chemical ordering in nanoalloys.
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BibTeX
@misc{wang2026structuredependent,
title = {{Structure-Dependent Chemical Order Modification in Strained Alloy Nanoparticles}},
author = {Yue Wang and Zibo Chen and Evropi Toulkeridou and Joseph Kioseoglou and Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = jul,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.00195},
eprint = {2607.00195},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00195},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Structure-Dependent Chemical Order Modification in Strained Alloy Nanoparticles
AU - Yue Wang
AU - Zibo Chen
AU - Evropi Toulkeridou
AU - Joseph Kioseoglou
AU - Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/07/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.00195
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00195
AB - Alloy nanoparticles (nanoalloys) exhibit tuneable physicochemical properties that depend sensitively on their atomic arrangement, making control over chemical ordering a central challenge in nanomaterials design. While most theoretical studies consider nanoalloys in vacuum, practical systems are typically supported, where strong cluster-substrate interactions can introduce significant lattice strain. Here, we investigate strain as a control parameter for chemical ordering in bimetallic nanoalloys using atomistic molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. By imposing controlled tensile and compressive strain through an implicit anchored interface, we systematically probe the response of NiPt nanoparticles with distinct structural motifs. For truncated octahedral particles, we find that chemical ordering and segregation behaviour remain remarkably robust even under large strains, indicating that intrinsic thermodynamic preferences dominate. In contrast, icosahedral nanoparticles exhibit pronounced strain-induced chemical redistribution, with a significant increase in surface Ni concentration under tensile strain. This behaviour is attributed to the combined effects of intrinsic geometric frustration and a high fraction of undercoordinated sites in icosahedral structures. Our results demonstrate that strain can selectively modulate chemical ordering in nanoalloys in a structure-dependent manner, establishing a general framework for understanding strain-induced chemical ordering in nanoalloys.
ER -