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Nanostructured Silver Sulfide Ag2S

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Nanostructured Lead, Cadmium, and Silver Sulfides

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The well known silver sulfide Ag2S is one of the most requisite semiconducting sulfides [1, 2] along with lead, zinc, copper, and cadmium sulfides [3,4,5].

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