While chemical pathways to nanostructured oxides of metals with high oxidation state are the topic of intensive research since three decades, many other compounds were only scarcely, if ever, reported at the nanoscale. These systems show at the bulk scale mechanical, catalytic, optical and electronic properties without equivalent among common oxides and metals. Nanostructures could lead to important changes or even enhancement of the properties and novel processing possibilities. This is the motivation of this research axis devoted to the synthesis of nanostructures of original materials.
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Metal non-oxides
Multicationic oxides
Low valence metal oxides
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