Structural characteristics of different types of nanoparticles synthesised in mesomorphic metal alkanoates |
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| Authors: | DS Zhulai SA Bugaychuk GV Klimusheva TA Mirnaya VN Asaula VI Handziuk |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukrainedmytrozhulai@gmail.com;3. Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine;4. V.I. Vernadskii Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine;5. Peter Grünberg Institute Bioelectronics (PGI-8), Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Juelich, Germany |
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| Abstract: | The class of thermotropic ionic liquid crystals (LCs) of the metal alkanoates possesses a number of unique properties, such as intrinsic ionic conductivity, high dissolving ability and ability to form time-stable mesomorphic glasses. These ionic LCs can be used as nanoreactors for the synthesis and stabilisation of different types of nanoparticles (NPs). Thus, some semiconductors, metals and core/shell NPs were chemically synthesised in the thermotropic ionic liquid crystalline phase (smectic A) of the cadmium octanoate (CdC8) and of the cobalt octanoate (CoC8). By applying the scanning electron microscopy, the cadmium and cobalt octanoate composites containing CdS, Au, Ag and core/shell Au/CdS NPs have been studied. NPs’ sizes and dispersion distribution of the NPs’ size in the nanocomposites have been obtained. |
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| Keywords: | Metal-alkanoate nanocomposites semiconductor metallic core/shell nanoparticles SEM images of nanocomposites size and size dispersion of nanoparticles |
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