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SUMMARY:Understanding the Decomposition Pathways of Molecular Selenium Prec
 ursors for Colloidal Nanoparticle Synthesis
LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20261013T160000
UID:2026-10-24-20-47-04@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20261024T204704
Description:Seminar Abstract:\nBinary metal selenides are of increasing int
 erest due to their wide range of applications in thermoelectrics\, optoele
 ctronics\, energy storage\, etc. However\, inorganic syntheses for binary 
 metal chalcogenides\, i.e. solid state or colloidal methods\, remain elusi
 ve in their reaction kinetics and phase selectivity. However\, we can begi
 n to understand reaction mechanisms through the trackable decomposition of
  molecular precursors\, and how different coordinating ligands affect deco
 mposition. This seminar focuses mainly on the work from Shults et al towar
 ds understanding decomposition of selenourea in oleylamine (OLA) and oleic
  acid (OA) for the phase control of iron selenide nanoparticle. Various ch
 aracterization methods were employed in Shults et al.’s work to aid in d
 etermining that OLA and OA induce different chemical environments for sele
 nourea decomposition to yield phase selectivity of Fe7Se8 and FeSe2 nanopa
 rticles\, respectively. 4:00 pm
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