Issue 30, 2021
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Chemical Communications

Liquid-phase synthesis of highly oxophilic zerovalent niobium and tantalum nanoparticles†

Alexander Egeberg,a   Lara-Pauline Faden,a   Anna Zimina,b   Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt, ORCID logo bc   Dagmar Gerthsend  and  Claus Feldmann ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstrasse 15, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany
E-mail: claus.feldmann@kit.edu

b Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen 76344, Germany

c Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstraße 20, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany

d Laboratory for Electron Microscpy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstrasse 7, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany

Abstract

Zerovalent niobium, Nb(0), and tantalum, Ta(0), nanoparticles are prepared via a one-pot, liquid-phase synthesis. For this, NbCl5/TaCl5 are dissolved in pyridine and reduced by lithium pyridinyl. Deep black suspensions of very small, highly uniform nanoparticles are obtained with average diameters of 2.1 ± 0.4 nm (Nb(0)) and 1.9 ± 0.4 nm (Ta(0)). Whereas suspensions are chemically and colloidally stable, powder samples are very reactive. TEM/HRTEM, XRD, FT-IR, and XANES are used for characterization.

Graphical abstract: Liquid-phase synthesis of highly oxophilic zerovalent niobium and tantalum nanoparticles

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CC00681A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Feb 2021
Accepted
17 Mar 2021
First published
18 Mar 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Commun., 2021,57, 3648-3651

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Liquid-phase synthesis of highly oxophilic zerovalent niobium and tantalum nanoparticles

A. Egeberg, L. Faden, A. Zimina, J. Grunwaldt, D. Gerthsen and C. Feldmann, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 3648 DOI: 10.1039/D1CC00681A

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