Reconstruction of colloidal spheres by targeted etching: A generalized self-template route to porous amphoteric metal oxide hollow spheres

Langmuir

Volumn 31, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 4566-4572

  Pan, Jia Hong ^a   Bai, Yuqing ^a   Wang, Qing ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ETCHING; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; SPHERES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC OXIDE;

ACID-BASE REACTIONS; COLLOIDAL SPHERE; HOLLOW SPHERE; POLYVINYL PYRROLIDONE; RECRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; SHELL THICKNESS; SYNTHETIC STRATEGIES; TEMPLATE ROUTE;

METALS;

EID: 84928484984     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00638     Document Type: Article

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