Surfactant-free hydrothermal synthesis of lithium aluminate microbricks and nanorods from aluminium oxide nanoparticles

Upendra A Joshi; Soo Hyun Chung; Jae Sung Lee

doi:10.1039/b508168h

Surfactant-free hydrothermal synthesis of lithium aluminate microbricks and nanorods from aluminium oxide nanoparticles

Chem Commun (Camb). 2005 Sep 21:(35):4471-3. doi: 10.1039/b508168h. Epub 2005 Aug 4.

Authors

Upendra A Joshi¹, Soo Hyun Chung, Jae Sung Lee

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Environmental Science Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), San 31 Hyoja-dong, Pohang, 790-784, Korea.

PMID: 16136254
DOI: 10.1039/b508168h

Abstract

Beta-LiAlO2 microbricks and rectangular nanorods have been successfully synthesized from Al2O3 nanoparticles by a simple hydrothermal process without any surfactant or template, by simply changing the Li/Al molar ratio.