Copper based sulfide-rich nanomaterials have recently attracted attentions in various applications due to inexpensive, abundance and non-toxicity of their constituent elements. Cu4SnS4 and CuCo2S4 as the members of this family have exhibited good capability with a stable manner in solar cells, energy storage electrodes, batteries, etc. In this work, through a facile and rapid combustion reaction accelerated by microwave irradiation, Cu4SnS4/CuCo2S4 nanoparticles was prepared. Thiourea was used as a sulphur source and also organic driving agent. The features of the synthesized product were studied using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersion of x-ray spectrometry (EDX) techniques. The FT-IR and XRD results showed the formation of a multi-components structure containing orthorhombic crystal phase of Cu4SnS4 alongside carrollite CuCo2S4 phase. Some electrochemical properties of the as-prepared nanomaterial was investigated by performing cyclic voltammetry (CV) tests in different electrolytes.
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Preparation of Cu4SnS4 /CuCo2S4 nanoparticles using combustion reaction accelerated by organic driving agents under microwave irradiation
Published:
14 November 2020
by MDPI
in The 24th International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry
session Microwave Assisted Synthesis
Abstract:
Keywords: Nanoparticles; Combustion; Multi-components structure, Microwave