Preparation of phosphides in the combustion regime

Synthesis of high-quality Ni2P hollow sphere via a template-free surfactant-assisted solvothermal route

“…Transition-metal phosphides have been of much interest owing to their important properties and potential applications in many fields, such as electricity, mechanics, corrosion-resistance, and so on [19,20]. Among these metal phosphides, Ni 2 P is very important, which has attracted considerable interest for their excellent properties and potential applications, such as corrosion-resistant, oxidation-resistant, wearproof materials [21], catalysts [22] Ni 2 P, such as the direct reaction from the elements at high temperature [20], the reduction of nickel phosphite with hydrogen [23], a mild one-pot reaction route [24] using a mixture of nickel acetate, oleylamine, trioctyphosphine, and 1-octadecene to prepare the hollow Ni 2 P nanoparticles, a solvothermal method [25] to prepare the dendritic morphology, and so on.…”

Fabrication of novel copper phosphide (Cu3P) hollow spheres by a simple solvothermal method

“…Transition-metal phosphides have been of much interest owing to their important properties and potential applications in many fields [26], such as electricity, mechanics, corrosion resistance, and so on. Among these metal phosphides, copper phosphide (Cu 3 P) is widely used as a potential negative electrode material [27], a kind of fine solder and important alloying addition [28,29].…”

Magnetic and magnetotransport properties of Fe2P nanocrystallites via a solvothermal route

“…1 Generally, bulk band gap energies for most of these transition metal phosphides fall into the range of near 0 to over 3 eV similarly to semiconductors, and many metal phosphides display unique physical properties such as phosphorescent, magnetic, electronic and catalytic properties. [2][3][4] Owing to their important properties and potential applications in many fields, such as semiconductors, luminescent devices, electronic components and hydro-processing catalysts, 2,[5][6][7] transition metal phosphides have attracted considerable interest in the past decades. Nevertheless, the magnetoresistance (MR) effect of transition metal phosphides has not been reported except for the alloy Fe 1.96 Ru 0.04 P. 8 Since magnetoresistive materials are the active components of magnetic field sensors and read heads for computer hard drives because of their dependence of electric resistance on magnetic field, 9,10 it is worth investigating the origin of magnetoresistance and exploring new transition metal phosphides.…”