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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 439, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2022.141674
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Deep eutectic solvents; electrodeposition; tellurium; nanowires; nanoplatelets
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Tellurium nanowire films were successfully produced by electrochemical deposition from deep eutectic solvents (DES) on gold film electrodes. The deposition was evenly distributed over the gold surface, with an average diameter of -70 nm and length of -1 mu m. Deposition sensitivity to potential, tellurium concentration, and bath temperature, as well as the impact of replacing chloride with bromide or iodide in the solvent on film structure, were observed.
Electrochemical deposition of tellurium from deep eutectic solvents (DES) at gold film electrodes produced films of tellurium nanowires. The deposition was evenly distributed over the gold surface, with an average diameter of -70 nm and length of -1 mu m. Deposition was extremely sensitive to the applied potential, tellurium concentration and deposition bath temperature, with deviations away from optimised conditions preventing the formation of the desired nanostructure. Interestingly, replacing the chloride in a popular eutectic solvent with bromide or iodide had a significant impact on the resultant film structure, with bromide giving no clearly defined nanostructure but iodide giving nanoplatelets. This demonstrates a strong control of tellurium nanostructure by halide ions, offering a way to two distinct nanostructures from the same core experimental set up.
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