Direct synthesis of nanostructured silver antimony sulfide powders from metal xanthate precursors.

ABSTRACT: Silver(I) ethylxanthate [AgS₂COEt] (1) and antimony(III) ethylxanthate [Sb(S₂COEt)₃] (2) have been synthesised, characterised and used as precursors for the preparation of AgSbS₂ powders and thin films using a solvent-free melt method and spin coating technique, respectively. The as-synthesized AgSbS₂ powders were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy. The crystalline AgSbS₂ powder was investigated using XRD, which shows that AgSbS₂ has cuboargyrite as the dominant phase, which was also confirmed by Raman spectroscopy. SEM was also used to study the morphology of the resulting material which is potentia

SUBMITTER: Alharbi YT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7862388 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature