Synthesis of indium nanoparticles at ambient temperature; simultaneous phase transfer and ripening
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16/12/2016
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05/12/2016
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Resumo |
The synthesis of size-monodispersed indium nanoparticles via an innovative simultaneous phase transfer and ripening method is reported. The formation of nanoparticles occurs in a one-step process instead of well-known two-step phase transfer approaches. The synthesis involves the reduction of InCl3 with LiBH4 at ambient temperature and although the reduction occurs at room temperature, fine indium nanoparticles, with a mean diameter of 6.4 ± 0.4 nm, were obtained directly in non-polar n-dodecane. The direct synthesis of indium nanoparticles in n-dodecane facilitates their fast formation and enhances their size-monodispersity. In addition, the nanoparticles were highly stable for more than 2 months. The nanoparticles were characterised by dynamic light scattering (DLS), small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy to determine their morphology, structure and phase purity. |
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Aghazadeh Meshgi, M., Kriechbaum, M., Biswas, S., Holmes, J. D. and Marschner, C. (2016) 'Synthesis of indium nanoparticles at ambient temperature; simultaneous phase transfer and ripening', Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 18(12), 363 (10 pp). doi: 10.1007/s11051-016-3683-8 18 363-1 363-10 1388-0764 http://hdl.handle.net/10468/3390 10.1007/s11051-016-3683-8 Journal of Nanoparticle Research |
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en |
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Springer Verlag |
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http://www.springer.com/materials/nanotechnology/journal/11051 |
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© The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Palavras-Chave | #Indium #Nanoparticle #Monodisperse #Colloidal solution #Reduction synthesis #SAXS |
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Article (peer-reviewed) |