Tuesday publication post! 📖 In this newest publication from Debora Keller and Rachele Butti, at Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, the authors report a reproducible method to study ionic liquids using the Fusion AX system!
Using the heating options of the Fusion system it was possible to image the nucleation and growth of gold nanoparticles in real time, inside ionic liquid environments that act as solvent, stabilizer, and reaction medium all at once.
💠 Dynamic rearrangement, surface diffusion, and coalescence seen in the ionic liquid
🔥 Real-time tracking of nucleation and growth pathways under controlled heating
This paper highlights that the Fusion AX system can be used not only for heating solids, but also for heating #ionicliquids safely! Furthermore, it shows that the ionic liquids are a unique starting material in nanomaterial synthesis pathways.
Want to read the entire paper? Find it here!
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0968432825000976
