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Reverse Microemulsion-mediated Synthesis of Monometallic and Bimetallic Early Transition Metal Carbide and Nitride Nanoparticles
Published on: November 27, 2015
One-minute synthesis of crystalline binary and ternary metal oxide nanoparticles
Idalia Bilecka1, Igor Djerdj, Markus Niederberger
1Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang-Pauli Strasse 10, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Highly crystalline metal oxide nanoparticles such as CoO, ZnO, Fe(3)O(4), MnO, Mn(3)O(4), and BaTiO(3) were synthesized in just a few minutes by reacting metal alkoxides, acetates or acetylacetonates with benzyl alcohol under microwave heating.
