Pressure‐Tailored Energy State and Medium‐Range‐Order Structure in Fe‐Ni‐P Nanostructured Metallic Glass for High‐Sensitive Glucose Detection
Metallic glass has emerged as a promising electro-catalytic material due to its metastable energy states and abundant undercoordinated sites. However, the limited capability to precisely manipulate its energy states and insufficient understanding of the energy-structure-property relationships hinder practical applications. Here, an innovative Laser-IGC (laser ablation with inert gas condensation) synthesis strategy is developed by combining pressure-controlled consolidation (1-5 GPa) to fabricate Fe-Ni-P nanostructured metallic glass with tunable atomic structure and energy states. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and surface wettability analyses reveal a consistent increase in energy state as consolidation pressure decreases. Pair distribution function (PDF) characterization discloses that pressure reduction induces atomic rearrangement at the medium-range order (MRO) scale (3-5 Å), leading to optimized connectivity and packing density in the glassy matrix. The Fe-Ni-P nanostructured metallic glass consolidated at 1 GPa achieves outstanding glucose sensing performance with a high sensitivity of 1214.82 µA cm<sup>-2</sup> mm<sup>-1</sup> and ultra-stability of 89% signal retention after 30-day storage. This work preliminarily establishes a correlation between energy states and electro-catalytic properties, while providing a novel pressure-engineering pathway for designing high-performance metallic glass catalysts.
Authors
- Shuangqin Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7356-2221)
- Mengyang Yan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7351-5473)
- Yu Lou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1343-6064)
- Si Lan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3104-4909)
- Bin Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4581-4775)
- Tao Feng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8583-1801)
- Xuechun Zhou
- Jianwu Wen
Institutions
- Nanjing University of Science and Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Small
- Published
- 2025-11-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202509564
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.52