Highly Monodisperse Colloidal Magnesium Nanoparticles by Room Temperature Digestive Ripening
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Abstract
Nanoclusters of 25 nm sized Mg-THF have been prepared by the solvated metal atom dispersion method. Room-temperature digestive ripening of these nanoclusters in the presence of hexadecylamine (HDA) resulted in highly monodisperse colloidal Mg-HDA nanoparticles of 2.8 +/- 0.2 nm. An insight into the room-temperature digestive ripening process was obtained by studying the disintegration of clusters for various Mg:HDA ratios. The Mg colloids are quite stable with respect to precipitation of particles under Ar atmosphere. Using this procedure, pure Mg(0) nanopowders were obtained in gram scale quantities. The Mg powder precipitated from the colloid was fully hydrided at 33 bar and 118 degrees C. Initial desorption of H(2) from samples of MgH(2) was achieved at a remarkably low temperature, 115 degrees C compared to >350 degrees C in bulk Mg, demonstrating the importance of the size on the desorption temperatures.
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