Fig. 2

Synthesis and characterization of nickel thiolates. Scheme of reaction between Ni(acac)2 and thiols (a) and FE-SEM images for selected nickel thiolates with different types of morphology (b). Scale bars–500 nm for 1f, 1 μm for 1a, 5 μm for 1b and 1h, 10 μm for 1g and 1m