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ArticleRoyal Society open science2019

Lead ethyl dithiocarbamates: efficient single-source precursors to PbS nanocubes.

S A Saah, N O Boadi, D Adu-Poku, C Wilkins

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

S A SaahDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0002-0585-2144
N O BoadiDepartment of Chemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
D Adu-PokuDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana.
C WilkinsSchool of Materials, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
University of Energy and Natural Resources · GHKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · GHUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lead ethyl dithiocarbamates have been successfully used as single-source precursors for the deposition of PbS using spin coating followed by annealing at moderate temperatures. The thin films were characterized using a powder X-ray diffractometer and were found to be face-centred cubic with the (200) plane being the most preferred orientation. Scanning electron microscopy images showed the formation of well-defined cubes. Optical band gaps of PbS thin films were estimated using Tauc plots as 0.72, 0.73 and 0.77 eV at annealing temperatures of 250, 300 and 400°C. These band gaps were all blue shifted from the bulk value of 0.41 eV. Energy-dispersive X-ray analysis was used to determine the composition of the thin films which showed an approximately 1 : 1 Pb to S ratio.

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Identifiers

PMID31824708
PMCPMC6837187
OpenAlexW2982517744

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