Nanostructured Metals and Alloys Deposited from Ionic Liquids

Nanostructured Metals and Alloys Deposited from Ionic Liquids 

Nanomaterials are composed of structural entities - isotropic grains or particles, rods, wires, platelets, layers - of size, at least in one dimension, between 1 and 100 nm [1-3]. Larger particles are called submicron particles, smaller ones are known as clusters. Some physical properties of nanomaterials [4-6] differ from those of coarse-grained materials of the same chemical composition due to two essential features  

Quantum size effects famous examples are the color shift upon size reduction of semiconductor nanoparticles like CdSe [14-16], and the surface plasmon resonance of metallic nanoparticles like gold [17, 18]. 

Electrodeposition from Ionic Liquids. Edited by F. Endres, D. MacFarlane, A. Abbott Copyright 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA, Weinheim ISBN 978-3-527-31565-9 

This critical compaction step is avoided in the case of the electrochemical route of pulsed electrodeposition (PED) [29] which transforms cations, i.e. atomic species, directly into nanomaterials without the detour via nanopartides. In this way densities up to 99% of the theoretical value can be achieved, such that these materials exhibit, for instance, intrinsic mechanical properties and not those dominated by voids. 

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