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Aluminium electrodeposition fron ionic liquid: effect of deposition temperature and sonication

Since their discovery, ionic liquids (IL) have attracted a wide interest for their potential use as medium for many chemical processes, which vary from extraction, to catalysis, to organic synthesis. Their use as electrochemical media allowed the electrodeposition of metal that are impossible to reduce in aqueous media.
In particular, the first generation ILs (the so called chloroaluminated ILs) have made possible the deposition of Aluminium from his chloride salt. Despite the discovery of this process in the nineties, nowadays aluminium electrodeposition from chloroaluminate ILs still maintains a number of open issues regarding both fundamental and  technological aspects.
The present communication aims to shed some light about the aluminium electrodeposition process as concerns the effect of deposition parameters. Thick Al-coatings (20 μm) were electrodeposited on brass substrate at different temperature, potential and stirring conditions. The so obtained coatings were investigated by means of optical and electronic microscope (Figure 1), rugosimetry and X-ray diffraction to asses their morphology and phase composition. Finally, with the intent to correlate the coating structures with their corrosion properties, electrochemical corrosion tests (Open Circuit Potential, Potentiodynamic Polarization and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy) were performed.

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Recent Advances on Photocatalytic Material for Artificial Photosynthesis

Confronting expanding demand for energy and ecological concerns, artificial photosynthesis in reasonably less complex structure to achieve the consequences of natural photosynthesis that is coupling solar powered driven water splitting and CO2 lessening in a way that dispenses with the requirement for an external, sacrificial electron donor is one of the colossal difficulties for the utilization of renewable energy and a sustainable development. For all intents and purposes, ''CO2 diminishment'' is more emerging  than ''water splitting'' since it not just adds to worldwide carbon cycling for carbon unbiased natural powers, copying what genuine leaves do (characteristic carbon reduction), additionally mitigating worldwide atmosphere changes. Nonetheless, as CO2 is a generally dormant and stable exacerbate, its diminishment is entirely testing. The photocatalytic lessening of CO2 has been generally contemplated for quite a while and additionally water part. For heterogeneous photocatalyst, numerous endeavours still concentrate on TiO2-based materials while different impetuses, for example, LiNbO3, ZnGa2O4, ALa4TiO4 (A=Ca, Sr, and Ba) etc. have additionally been accounted for as of late. Nevertheless, the advance accomplished in this field had not been as sensational as that in water splitting for a few decades in view of the low efficiencies, limited photocatalyst and/or requiring the utilization of sacrificial reducing agents. The study may even manage current gaps inside of the advancement of photocatalytic materials, i.e., the synergy among photocatalytic materials for artificial photosynthesis.

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