Surfactant-Templated Mesoporous Metal Oxide Nanowires
Author(s) -
Hongmei Luo,
Qianglu Lin,
Stacy M. Baber,
Mahesh Naalla
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of nanomaterials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.463
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1687-4129
pISSN - 1687-4110
DOI - 10.1155/2010/750960
Subject(s) - mesoporous material , materials science , nanowire , transmission electron microscopy , chemical engineering , pulmonary surfactant , scanning electron microscope , nanotechnology , chemistry , composite material , organic chemistry , engineering , catalysis
We demonstrate two approaches to prepare mesoporous metal oxide nanowires by surfactant assembly and nanoconfinement via sol-gel or electrochemical deposition. For example, mesoporous Ta2O5 and zeolite nanowires are prepared by block copolymer Pluronic 123-templated sol-gel method, and mesoporous ZnO nanowires are prepared by electrodeposition in presence of anionic surfactant sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) surfactant, in porous membranes. The morphologies of porous nanowires are studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analyses
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