| Abstract Scope |
Rapidly changing environment and ever-increasing energy demand ask for innovative approach to develop multifunctional materials to tackle these issues. The class of materials known as Chevrel Phase compounds (MxMo6S8-CPs) have re-emerged due to their fascinating properties to serve as a high temperature superconductor, hydrodesulfurization catalyst, thermoelectric material, host for Li/Mg/Al ion in battery applications, as well as electrocatalyst. Traditionally CPs have been synthesized with lab-scale apparatus which requires post processing and longer synthesis time (upto 100 hours). Self-propagating high temperature synthesis (SHS) is a combustion-based process which facilitate synthesis of CPs in single step ultra-fast processing method (2-10 Minutes) which can be scaled up for industrial applications. In this study Cu-CP (Cu2Mo6S8/ Cu4Mo6S8) compounds were synthesized with rapid SHS reaction. Process parameters such as precursor size, mixing and ignition temperature and their effect on final Cu-CP compounds were studied to understand reaction kinetics. |