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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
Volume 42, Issue 21, Pages 8237-8265Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3cs60159e
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- Max-Planck Society
- ERC
- Alexander von Humboldt foundation
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Materials synthesis in the liquid phase, or wet-chemical synthesis, utilizes a solution medium in which the target materials are generated from a series of chemical and physical transformations. Although this route is central in organic chemistry, for materials synthesis the low operational temperature range of the solvent (usually below 200 degrees C, in extreme 350 degrees C) is a serious restriction. Here, salt melt synthesis (SMS) which employs a molten inorganic salt as the medium emerges as an important complementary route to conventional liquid phase synthesis. Depending on the nature of the salt, the operational temperature ranges from near 100 degrees C to over 1000 degrees C, thus allowing the access to a broad range of inorganic crystalline materials and carbons. The recent progress in SMS of inorganic materials, including oxide ceramic powders, semiconductors and carbon nanostructures, is reviewed here. We will introduce in general the range of accessible materials by SMS from oxides to non-oxides, and discuss in detail based on selected examples the mechanisms of structural evolution and the influence of synthetic conditions for certain materials. In the later sections we also present the recent developments in SMS for the synthesis of organic solids: covalent frameworks and polymeric semiconductors. Throughout this review, special emphasis is placed on materials with nanostructures generated by SMS, and the possible modulation of materials structures at the nanoscale in the salt melt. The review is finalized with the summary of the current achievements and problems, and suggestions for potential future directions in SMS.
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