Electrodeposition of stable and narrowly dispersed germanium nanoclusters from an ionic liquid.
Germanium nanoclusters with a narrow height distribution have been electrodeposited from a dilute solution of GeCl4 in the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate [BMIm]PF6: under the reported conditions the lateral sizes of most of the clusters range between 20 and 30 nm while their heights vary from 1 to 10 nm with most of them between 1 and 5 nm.
University of Karlsruhe, Institute for Physical Chemistry, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany. frank.endres@chemie.uni-karlsruhe.de
Frank
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Sherif Zein
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el Abedin
D002384:Catalysis; D004563:Electrochemistry; D005857:Germanium / Q000737:chemistry*; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry; D007477:Ions / Q000737:chemistry*; D007700:Kinetics; D036103:Nanotechnology; D012996:Solutions
D007477:Ions; D012996:Solutions; D005857:Germanium; D006046:Gold