TELLURIUM METAL POWDER
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RXSOL-60-6605-652
Also known as
TELLURIUM METAL POWDER
A brittle, mildly toxic, rare, silver-white lustrous metalloid which looks similar to tin. Tellurium is chemically related to selenium and sulfur. It is an easily pulverized metalloid occasionally found in native form, as elemental crystals.
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Owing to the very brittle nature of tellurium powder, nanoscopic grains with an average size of 4.8 ± 0.8 nm were
produced by dry vibration milling technique using a mixer/mill apparatus. A novel material was obtained by binding the
nanosized tellurium grains with poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) polymer. The morphology, elemental composition,
and structural and optical properties of Te/PMMA films were investigated. The prepared material was composed of
hexagonal tellurium and α-phase of tellurium oxide. Owing to the very brittle nature of tellurium powder, nanoscopic grains with an average size of 4.8 ± 0.8 nm were
produced by dry vibration milling technique using a mixer/mill apparatus. A novel material was obtained by binding the
nanosized tellurium grains with poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) polymer. The morphology, elemental composition,
and structural and optical properties of Te/PMMA films were investigated. The prepared material was composed of
hexagonal tellurium and α-phase of tellurium oxide.
Tellurium has been used to vulcanise rubber, to tint glass and ceramics, in solar cells, in rewritable CDs and DVDs and as a catalyst in oil refining. It can be doped with silver, gold, copper or tin in semiconductor applications.
