Electrochemical Behavior and Electrodeposition of Nanostructured Rhodium from Low-Temperature Carbamide and Acetamide Containing Melts

Svetlana Kochetova; Anastasiya Savchuk; Dmytro Shakhnin; Viktor Malyshev

doi:10.1186/s11671-017-2108-7

Electrochemical Behavior and Electrodeposition of Nanostructured Rhodium from Low-Temperature Carbamide and Acetamide Containing Melts

Nanoscale Res Lett. 2017 Dec;12(1):346. doi: 10.1186/s11671-017-2108-7. Epub 2017 May 11.

Authors

Svetlana Kochetova¹, Anastasiya Savchuk¹, Dmytro Shakhnin¹, Viktor Malyshev²

Affiliations

¹ Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, 32/34 Palladin Ave., Kyiv, 03142, Ukraine.
² Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, 32/34 Palladin Ave., Kyiv, 03142, Ukraine. [email protected].

Abstract

The electrochemical behavior of rhodium at low-temperature carbamide-chloride and acetamide-chloride melts was investigated. It was found that, during rhodium anodic dissolution in carbamide and acetamide containing chloride melts, mixed complexes [Rh(NH₃)₄Cl₂]⁺ of quasi-octahedral symmetry D_4h are produced. The composition and structure of nascent complex ions have been studied. During electrochemical reduction of [Rh(NH₃)₄Cl₂]⁺ complexes, the synthesis of Rh nanoparticles, as well as Fe, Cu, and Mo nanocoatings, were realized.

Keywords: Electrochemical behavior; Low-temperature melts; Nanocoatings; Nanoparticles; Rhodium; Synthesis.