A magnesium carbonate recyclable template to synthesize micro hollow structures at a large scale

Peng Tian; Junwei Ye; Nuo Xu; Weitao Gong; Qiushuang Zhang; Yuan Lin; Guiling Ning

doi:10.1039/c1cc15186j

A magnesium carbonate recyclable template to synthesize micro hollow structures at a large scale

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Nov 21;47(43):12008-10. doi: 10.1039/c1cc15186j. Epub 2011 Sep 30.

Authors

Peng Tian¹, Junwei Ye, Nuo Xu, Weitao Gong, Qiushuang Zhang, Yuan Lin, Guiling Ning

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.

PMID: 21964213
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc15186j

Abstract

A facile strategy by using magnesium carbonate as the recyclable template has been developed to synthesize a variety of uniform inorganic hollow structures whose composition, size and shape can be readily modulated to generate interesting structures such as TiO(2), Al(2)O(3), SiO(2), Gd(2)O(3) and NiO microtubes and TiO(2), SiO(2) hollow microboxes.