Linking solvent structure to materials synthesis: Choline Chloride:Urea-Water effects on Nanostructured Ceria

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In our recent work we have studied formation of nanostructured cerium oxides from the choline chloride:urea deep eutectic solvent (DES). We found that as water content in the solvent is increased from 1 mole equivalent to 10 mole equivalents the structure of the ceria formed in this system changes from nanospherical to rod-like and the performance of this material in catalysis improves dramatically, alongside an increase in the microporosity of the material. It appears that the solvent structure has a significant effect on the growth of ceria particles within this medium. In an earlier experiment we looked at the structure of this solvent with 1 and 2 mole equivalents of water, but now would like to extend this study to determine whether water in this DES is locally clustered thus affecting the shape of the growing nanoparticles.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.73944558
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/73944558
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Creator Dr Stephen Hall; Miss Andi Di; Ms Cecilia Tognoloni; Miss Naomi Elstone; Dr Thomas Arnold; Dr Andrew McCluskey; Dr Naomi Elstone; Dr Oliver Hammond; Dr Daniel Bowron; Professor Karen Edler
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-03-21T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-03-25T09:00:00Z