Synthesis of indium nanoparticles at ambient temperature; simultaneous phase transfer and ripening

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dc.contributor.authorAghazadeh Meshgi, M.
dc.contributor.authorKriechbaum, M.
dc.contributor.authorBiswas, Subhajit
dc.contributor.authorHolmes, Justin D.
dc.contributor.authorMarschner, Christoph
dc.contributor.funderSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschungen
dc.contributor.funderAustrian Science Funden
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-16T12:44:49Z
dc.date.available2016-12-16T12:44:49Z
dc.date.issued2016-12-05
dc.date.updated2016-12-15T05:26:40Z
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAustrian Science Fund, FWF (Open access funding); Austrian Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF projects P-22678 and P-26417); Science Foundation Ireland (SFI Grant: 14/IA/2513)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationAghazadeh 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/s11051-016-3683-8en
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11051-016-3683-8
dc.identifier.endpage363-10en
dc.identifier.issn1388-0764
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Nanoparticle Researchen
dc.identifier.startpage363-1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3390
dc.identifier.volume18en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringer Verlagen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.springer.com/materials/nanotechnology/journal/11051
dc.rights© 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.en
dc.subjectIndiumen
dc.subjectNanoparticleen
dc.subjectMonodisperseen
dc.subjectColloidal solutionen
dc.subjectReduction synthesisen
dc.subjectSAXSen
dc.titleSynthesis of indium nanoparticles at ambient temperature; simultaneous phase transfer and ripeningen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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