Ajai Singh and his team have grown Pd4Se and Pd7Se4 nanoparticles for the first time. Why is this interesting? Well, because palladium and platinum chalcogenides have many uses – from catalysis, to electronic devices and light image receiving materials. But these compounds can be difficult to make safely as the current precursors are toxic and/or volatile. Singh and colleagues have made these new nanoparticles as a possible safe precursor to these valuable chalcogenide compounds. Find out more in this recent Hot Communication FREE for you to access until the 15th January:
Palladium(II)–selenoether complexes as new single source precursors: First synthesis of Pd4Se and Pd7Se4 nanoparticles
Ved Vati Singh, Gyandshwar Kumar Rao, Arun Kumar and Ajai K. Singh
Dalton Trans., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/C2DT12113A
