Sulfides, sonochemical synthesis

Abstract Sonochemical synthesis, an energy efficient processing technique to induce a variety of physical and chemical transformations is on the rise. A variety of simple and mixed metal oxides and sulfides have been obtained using this technique. The present chapter reviews the types of oxides and sulfides obtained in the last few years. 

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The synthesis of nanostructured inorganic materials by sonochemical had already been synthesized a large number of nanostructures of different compositions with comparable or better than the properties of the same when summed with other preparation methods. The versatility of this method also extends to the relative flexibility of reaction conditions such as the nature of the precursors and their solutions, the possibility of addition of auxiliaries, and the presence of traps (species immobilized) to the nanoparticles. All types of metallic nanostructured materials synthesized by sonochemical described (powders, colloids, or nanoparticles supported) can also be obtained for other classes of compounds such as oxides [58-60], sulfides [61], Suslick [20, 62], and more recently selenides [63, 64] and tellurides [65]. 

The use of ultrasonic irradiation for producing nanomaterials has been a research topic of great interest (Dhasn et al., 1999). This is due to the simplicity of sonochemical method, the cheap price of the equipment and that in many cases the as-prepared material is obtained in the crystalline phase. The ultrasonic-assisted aqueous room tempjerature ionic liquid method was applied to prepare zinc sulfide and zinc oxide nanomateiials (Zheng et al. 2010 Jia et al. 2010), among many other nanomatreials. Selection of the room temp>erature ionic liquid was mainly based on the fact that it can be obtained at a relatively low price and the method for its synthesis is simple. 

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