Silicon nanocrystals, synthesis using

In addition, ILs could also be used as both solvent and electrolyte for the electrodeposition of copper [35, 36], aluminum [37, 38], tantalum [4], platinum [39], silver [40, 41], gold [40-42], and silicon [43]. For example, Endres et al. have reported the electrodeposition of nanocrystalline metals and alloys, such as aluminum from ILs, which previously could not be electrodeposited from aqueous or organic solutions. This method enabled the synthesis of aluminum nanocrystals with average grain sizes of about 10 nm, Al-Mn alloys, as well as Fe and Pd nanocrystals [4] [as shown in Fig. 4.2). 

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