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Sustainable and Very-Low-Temperature Wet-Chemistry Routes for the Synthesis of Crystalline Inorganic Nanostructures

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In this chapter, selected low (T < 200 °C)-temperature wet-chemistry routes for the synthesis of crystalline inorganic compounds are described and reviewed, outlining their main features and application fields. In particular, the chosen approaches are hydro/solvothermal synthesis, template-assisted approaches, nucleation and growth in solution/suspension, microemulsion and miniemulsion. The described synthetic strategies have been selected since all of them, once optimized the experimental set-up and conditions, comply with the paradigms of green chemistry, being based on low (or even room) temperature of processing, on low chemical consumption (they are all bottom-up approach), in many cases having water as solvent or dispersing medium. In this regard, environmentally friendly methodologies for the controlled synthesis of inorganic nanostructures represent a stimulating research playground, since the use of environmentally friendly, green, cost-effective and technically sound approaches to inorganic crystalline nanostructures does not necessarily imply to sacrifice the sample crystallinity, purity, and monodispersity.

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Gross, S. (2015). Sustainable and Very-Low-Temperature Wet-Chemistry Routes for the Synthesis of Crystalline Inorganic Nanostructures. In: Basiuk, V., Basiuk, E. (eds) Green Processes for Nanotechnology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15461-9_1

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