Soft landing of polyatomic anions onto three-dimensional semiconductive and conductive substrates.

ABSTRACT: Soft landing of well-characterized polyoxometalate anions, PW₁₂O₄₀ ^3- (WPOM) and PMo₁₂O₄₀ ^3- (MoPOM), was carried out to explore the distribution of anions in the semiconducting 10 and 6 μm-long vertically aligned TiO₂ nanotubes as well as 300 μm-long conductive vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs). The distribution of soft-landed anions on the surfaces and their penetration into the nanotubes were studied using energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). We observe that soft landed anions generate microaggregates on the TiO₂ nanotubes and only reside in the top 1.5 μm of the nanotube height. Meanwhile, soft landed anions are uniformly distributed on top of

SUBMITTER: Gholipour-Ranjbar H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10012853 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature