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Solventless synthesis of ruthenium nanoparticles

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Mariela Bravo Sanchez

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel solventless method for the synthesis of zero-valent ruthenium nanoparticles Ru(0). The proposed method, although not entirely new in the nanomaterials world, was used for the first time to synthesize zero-valent ruthenium nanoparticles. This new approach has proved to be an environmentally friendly, clean, cheap, fast, and reproducible technique which employs low amounts of solvent. It was optimized through varying amounts of reducing salt on a determined quantity of precursor and measuring the effect of this variation on the average particle size obtained. The resulting products were fully characterized by powder XRD, TEM, HR-TEM, and XPS studies, all of which corroborated the purity of the nanoparticles achieved. In order to verify the advantages of our method over other techniques, we compared our nanoparticles with two common colloidal-synthesized ruthenium nanoparticles.

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Author(s): Garcia-Pena NG, Redon R, Herrera-Gomez A, Fernandez-Osorio AL, Bravo-Sanchez M, Gomez-Sosa G

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Applied Surface Science

Year: 2015

Volume: 340

Pages: 25-34

Print publication date: 15/06/2015

Online publication date: 06/03/2015

Acceptance date: 28/02/2015

ISSN (print): 0169-4332

ISSN (electronic): 1873-5584

Publisher: Elsevier

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2015.02.186

DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2015.02.186

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