1D Bismuth Nanostructures involving Deep Eutectic Solvents and “soft template” electrodeposition method using PVP as surfactant/stabilizer


Figure 1. SEM micrographs for Bi nanowires electrosynthesized  from ILOx-BiCl3-PVP10 at
25 mA.cm-2 for 30 min., 80 ± 5 oC

Figure 2. STEM image of BiNWs using
SE – secondary electrons detector (upper image) and EDX elemental distribution (bottom image) along BiNWs (Linescan profiles at x25K magnification performed in the secondary electron images)