Tin Powders Electrodeposition from Choline Chloride Based Ionic Liquid

Abstract

Possibilities of tin powders obtainment from the choline chloride-ethylene glycol ionic liquid are considered. The tin reduction from an ionic liquid mechanism is confirmed via chronovoltametry, chronopotentiometry, transient potential and impedance spectroscopy methods. Said mechanism includes the trichlorostanite complexes reduction at current densities up to 5 mA / cm2, recovery from a polyanionic adsorbed layer at current densities of 5-12 mA/cm2 and recovery from a mixed layer including polyanions bound and by electrolyte ions at current densities exceeding 12 mA/cm2. Tin ions reduction from the mixed coating layer facilitates forming of encapsulated tin powder particles with shape of symmetrical dendrites. Powders obtainment from an ionic liquid allows to reduce the resulting powder dispersion.

Morphology and Structure of Electrolytically Synthesized Tin Dendritic Nanostructures

“…Sn and Sn alloys in the powder form can be obtained by electrolysis from the aqueous [9,10,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] and non-aqueous electrolytes [23,24], deep eutectic solvent (DES) [2,11,[25][26][27] and ionic liquids [28][29][30][31]. Various acidic and alkaline aqueous electrolytes, such as chloride [16], chloride-gluconate [14,15], sulfate-coumarin [10], chloride-citrate [16], chloridesulfate-gluconate [15], sulfate [17][18][19][20] and hydroxide [9] electrolytes are used for a production of tin powders of different surface morphology.…”