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BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 expertise in synthetic chemistry will be used to develop custom precursors for electrodeposition of a range of p-block elements and alloys. Synthesis and characterisation is carried out in-house at the Universities of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 and Nottingham
Synthesis of starting materials
Starting materials for the target materials for electrodeposition in the ADEPT programme are rarely commercially available. BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 synthetic chemistry team (led by Professor Gill Reid) has the experience and expertise in-house to produce precursor molecules that:
- can be obtained (pure) reproducibly and in practically useful quantities,
- are resistant to oxygen and water (ideally powdered solids for ease of handling);
- have low lattice energies/solvation energies for dissolution and dissociation in low dielectric solvents;
- have suitable reduction potentials;
- are mutually compatible in a single, tuneable electrolyte;
- are thermally stable for high temperature electrodeposition
Mesoporous silica templates
The templates team, led by Professor Andrew Hector, focuses on the development of self-assembled mesoporous films for use as growth templates, and surface treatments to both self-assembled and lithographic templates to modify the properties of materials electrodeposited into them.
