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Phase control during the synthesis of nickel sulfide nanoparticles from dithiocarbamate precursors

Roffey, A; Hollingsworth, N; Islam, HU; Mercy, M; Sankar, G; Catlow, CR; Hogarth, G; (2016) Phase control during the synthesis of nickel sulfide nanoparticles from dithiocarbamate precursors. Nanoscale , 8 (21) pp. 11067-11075. 10.1039/c6nr00053c. Green open access

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Abstract

Square-planar nickel bis(dithiocarbamate) complexes, [Ni(S2CNR2)2], have been prepared and utilised as single source precursors to nanoparticulate nickel sulfides. While they are stable in the solid-state to around 300 °C, heating in oleylamine at 230 °C, 5 mM solutions afford pure α-NiS, where the outcome is independent of the substituents. DFT calculations show an electronic effect rather than steric hindrance influences the resulting particle size. Decomposition of the iso-butyl derivative, [Ni(S2CN(i)Bu2)2], has been studied in detail. There is a temperature-dependence of the phase of the nickel sulfide formed. At low temperatures (150 °C), pure α-NiS is formed. Upon raising the temperature, increasing amounts of β-NiS are produced and at 280 °C this is formed in pure form. A range of concentrations (from 5-50 mM) was also investigated at 180 °C and while in all cases pure α-NiS was formed, particle sizes varied significantly. Thus at low concentrations average particle sizes were ca. 100 nm, but at higher concentrations they increased to ca. 150 nm. The addition of two equivalents of tetra-iso-butyl thiuram disulfide, ((i)Bu2NCS2)2, to the decomposition mixture was found to influence the material formed. At 230 °C and above, α-NiS was generated, in contrast to the results found without added thiuram disulfide, suggesting that addition of ((i)Bu2NCS2)2 stabilises the metastable α-NiS phase. At low temperatures (150-180 °C) and concentrations (5 mM), mixtures of α-NiS and Ni3S4, result. A growing proportion of Ni3S4 is noted upon increasing precursor concentration to 10 mM. At 20 mM a metastable phase of nickel sulfide, NiS2 is formed and as the concentration is increased, α-NiS appears alongside NiS2. Reasons for these variations are discussed.

Type: Article
Title: Phase control during the synthesis of nickel sulfide nanoparticles from dithiocarbamate precursors
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1039/c6nr00053c
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6nr00053c
Language: English
Additional information: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Published in Nanoscale by the Royal Society of Chemistry and available at http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2016/NR/C6NR00053C#!divAbstract
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1496833
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