Crystallization and functionality of inorganic materials

Xue, Dongfeng; Li, Keyan; Liu, Jiangwen; Sun, Congting; Chen, Kunfeng

doi:10.1016/j.materresbull.2012.04.112

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“…Microwavehydrothermal method, on the other hand, yielded kesterite after 1 h of treatment and the XRD peaks closely matched with those prepared by the conventional method in peak breadth and intensity. These crystallization studies are supported by previous studies which indicated that after nucleation, crystal growth is controlled by both thermodynamics and kinetics [24], thermodynamic factors are from crystallographic limits, while kinetic factors are determined by varying conditions depending upon different systems [25]. The above results suggest that kesterite could be made more rapidly by the microwave-hydrothermal method than by the conventional method confirming previous results of faster kinetics of crystallization with microwave-assisted methods [21,26,27].…”

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Microwave-hydrothermal/solvothermal synthesis of kesterite, an emerging photovoltaic material

Yan

Michael

Komarneni

et al. 2014

Ceramics International

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confidence: 86%

Microwave-hydrothermal/solvothermal synthesis of kesterite, an emerging photovoltaic material

Yan

Michael

Komarneni

et al. 2014

Ceramics International

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“…Changing the reaction rate can reduce or increase the supersaturation of Cu 2 O, thus controlling the crystallization process of Cu 2 O. According to the chemical bonding theory of single crystal growth, the thermodynamic stable morphology of Cu 2 O is octahedron [27,28]. The change of crystallization kinetics leads to the formation of kinetics-stable morphologies of cube and truncated octahedron (Figure 2b).…”

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Nanofabrication strategies for advanced electrode materials

Chen

Xue

2017

Nanofabrication

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Advanced energy storage devices, i.e., Li-ion battery, supercapacitor, need high electroactive metal oxide materials with stable structure during charging/ discharging cycling [1][2][3]. However, metal oxide electrode materials often suffer from low conductivity, and slow ion diffusion rate during electrochemical redox reaction. In recent years, lots of efforts are done to design nanostructured materials to enhance their function. When downsizing to nanosize, the electroactive areas of materials are increased and ion/electron diffusion length is shortened, and therefore specific capacitance of active materials is significantly enhanced [4][5][6]. For example, 3D holey-graphene/niobia composite architectures have been designed to show ultrahigh-rate energy storage performance [7]. The highly interconnected graphene network in the 3D architecture shows excellent electron transport properties, while its hierarchical porous structure enables rapid ion transport. Although the nanostructured materials have shown extraordinary promise for electrochemical energy storage, most of the existing synthesis techniques require multistep and laborious procedures [8,9]. The dual pressure of energy needs and environmental requirements in society demand the rapid screening of exceptional performance materials to shorten R&D of advanced energy storage devices. As shown in Figure 1a, R&D of electrode materials mainly includes structure & component design, materials synthesis and performance evaluation. During these processes, materials synthesis often need longer time and complex equipments, which increase the finding time of new electrode materials. The development of easy and fast nanofabrication strategy can accelerate finding rate of new electrode materials in laboratory (Figure 1b). Furthermore, with creative design idea, the material synthesis process can be replaced or fused into one structure-performance process (Figure 1c), which not only accelerate the finding rate of new electrode materials, but also decrease the cost of searching new electrode materials. Abstract: The development of advanced electrode materials for high-performance energy storage devices becomes more and more important for growing demand of portable electronics and electrical vehicles. To speed up this process, rapid screening of exceptional materials among various morphologies, structures and sizes of materials is urgently needed. Benefitting from the advance of nanotechnology, tremendous efforts have been devoted to the development of various nanofabrication strategies for advanced electrode materials. This review focuses on the analysis of novel nanofabrication strategies and progress in the field of fast screening advanced electrode materials. The basic design principles for chemical reaction, crystallization, electrochemical reaction to control the composition and nanostructure of final electrodes are reviewed. Novel fast nanofabrication strategies, such as burning, electrochemical exfoliation, and their basic principles are also summarized. More im...

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“…1c similarly show small areas of ranged nanocrystals surrounded by small rice-like nanocrystals. The explanation for this orientation is based on the surface coordination of the ligands and the crystal structure, as clarified by the chemical bonding theory of single crystal growth [31][32][33]. As Fig.…”

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Wide emission-tunable CdTeSe/ZnSe/ZnS core–shell quantum dots and their conjugation with E. coli O-157

Zhou

et al. 2015

Materials Research Bulletin

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Crystallization and functionality of inorganic materials

Cited by 56 publications

References 32 publications

Microwave-hydrothermal/solvothermal synthesis of kesterite, an emerging photovoltaic material

Microwave-hydrothermal/solvothermal synthesis of kesterite, an emerging photovoltaic material

Nanofabrication strategies for advanced electrode materials

Wide emission-tunable CdTeSe/ZnSe/ZnS core–shell quantum dots and their conjugation with E. coli O-157

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