Nickel phosphides NixPy are a promising family of binary compounds that have shown much promise in various fields technology, including energy storage, light absorption and heterogeneous catalysis the reactions biomass hydrogenation. The performance NixPy-containing materials depends greatly on their morphology phase composition and, turn, synthesis technique. In this work, we employed electrop...

Every year, about 300,000 people die because of pesticide poisoning worldwide. The most common pesticide agents are organophosphates and phosphides, aluminium phosphide (AlP) in particular. AlP is known as a suicide poison that can easily be bought and has no effective antidote. Its toxicity results from the release of phosphine gas as the tablet gets into contact with moisture. Phosphine gas p...

Engineering the electronic properties of transition metal phosphides has shown great effectiveness in improving their intrinsic catalytic activity for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in water splitting applications. Herein, we report for the first time, the creation of Fe vacancies as an approach to modulate the electronic structure of iron phosphide (FeP). The Fe vacancies were produced ...

We report molecular beam epitaxial growth of InAs on GaP~001!, which has the largest lattice mismatch ~11%! among all the arsenides and phosphides. Reflection high-energy electron diffraction and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy were used to optimize the growth and characterize the epilayer. It is found that the growth mode can be controlled by the surface V/III ratio: three-dim...

Recently, metal phosphides have been investigated as potential anode materials because of higher specific capacity compared with those of carbonaceous materials. However, the rapid capacity fade upon cycling leads to poor durability and short cycle life, which cannot meet the need of lithium-ion batteries with high energy density. Herein, we report a layer-structured GeP3/C nanocomposite anode ...

The new compounds Th5F e19P 12 and ThFe4P2 were prepared by reaction o f the elemental components in a tin flux and their crystal structures were determined from single-crystal X-ray data. Th5F e19P12 crystallizes with a new monoclinic structure type: C2/m, a = 2920.3(3), b = 379.18(3), c = 931.48(8) pm, ß = 103.36(1)°, Z = 2, R = 0.031. ThFe4P2 is isotypic with SmNi4P2: Pnnm, a = 1448.9(2), b ...