Stabilizer-Free Metal Nattoparticles and Metal-Metal Oxide Nanocomposites with Long-Term Stability Prepared by Physical Vapor Deposition into Ionic Liquids

摘要

Ionic liquids (ILs) have received substantial attention in recent years. Their inherent properties such as in most cases negligible vapor pressures, wide liquidus ranges, good thermal stabilities, considerable electric conductivities, and wide electrochemical windows have been shown to be advantageous for a large number of applications. As salts, ionic liquids are composed of distinct cations and anions, which makes them widely tunable. They may be designed for specific applications through the choice of the respective cation and anion and the ion combination. In the last decade ILs have been explored for organic synthesis and catalysis and only to a lesser extent for inorganic materials synthesis.