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Antimony
About: Antimony is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11450 publications have been published within this topic receiving 155660 citations. The topic is also known as: Sb & element 51.
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TL;DR: In this paper, it was found that some thermoelectric antimonides yield a volume capacity for reversible lithium storage more than twice that of state of the art carbon based materials.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the basic properties of copper antimony sulfide (CuSbS2) thin films to investigate their photovoltaic applications are described and a detailed description of the preparation methods, studies on morphologies and optoelectronic properties based on published work, including our experience is presented.
Abstract: The increasing energy demand and the limitations of the existing technologies due to the scarcity, cost and toxicity of the materials urge the researchers to hunt for efficient thin film solar cells based on earth-abundant, inexpensive and less toxic materials. For a decade, binary and ternary antimony based sulfides have gained attention due to their possible applications in solar cells. This interest is the basis of this review. In this review article, we describe basic properties of copper antimony sulfide (CuSbS2) thin films to investigate their photovoltaic applications. A detailed description of the preparation methods, studies on morphologies and optoelectronic properties based on published work, including our experience are presented. A systematic review is done to demonstrate emerging interest in the photovoltaic performance of this compound. This review gives an in depth discussion on the structure, morphology, optical and electrical properties of copper antimony sulfide thin films.
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors collected human hair samples from two typical antimony mines and one non-mining city (Guiyang, Southwest China), and analyzed the concentrations of arsenic, antimony and bismuth in these samples by hydride generation-atomic fluorescence spectrometry.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors detected volatile species of silicon, vanadium, arsenic, bromine, tin, antimony, tellurium, iodine, mercury, lead and bismuth in gases released from domestic waste deposits, using inductively coupled argon plasma mass spectrometry (ICP MS).
Abstract: We have detected volatile species of silicon, vanadium, arsenic, bromine, tin, antimony, tellurium, iodine, mercury, lead and bismuth in gases released from domestic waste deposits, using inductively coupled argon plasma mass spectrometry (ICP MS). By concurrent aspiration of a multielement standard solution for calibration, the element concentrations in deposit gas are found to be in the range from 0.1 ng m−3 to 10 μg m−3 gas. The global amount of some metal species emitted by this process may be of the order of several tons per year. These results suggest a biogeochemical pathway for the transfer of metals into the atmosphere via volatile species. This process may have significant influence on atmospheric cycling of metals as well as on metal toxicity within ecosystems.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the metal-halogen and metal-ligand infrared frequencies have been assigned for MX3.bipy and MX 3.2py compounds of arsenic, antimony and bismuth.
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