Pau Congost-Escoin, Matteo Andrea Lucherelli, Víctor Oestreicher, Guillermo García-Lainez, Marta Alcaraz, Martín Mizrahi, Maria Varela, Inmaculada Andreu, Gonzalo Abellán
Pnictogen nanomaterials have recently attracted researchers' attention owing to their promising properties in the field of electronic, energy storage, and nanomedicine applications. Moreover, especially in the case of heavy pnictogens, their chemistry allows for nanomaterial synthesis using both top-down and bottom-up approaches, yielding materials with remarkable differences in terms of morphology, size, yield, and properties. In this study, we carried out a comprehensive structural and spectroscopic characterization of antimony-based nanomaterials (Sb-nanomaterials) obtained by applying different production methodologies (bottom-up and top-down routes) and investigating the influence of the synthesis on their oxidation state and stability in a biological environment...
April 16, 2024: Nanoscale