Small Molecule-Assisted Exfoliation of Layered Zirconium Phosphate Nanoplatelets by Ionic Liquids

Fangqing Xia; Huaisong Yong; Xiao Han; Dazhi Sun

doi:10.1186/s11671-016-1559-6

Small Molecule-Assisted Exfoliation of Layered Zirconium Phosphate Nanoplatelets by Ionic Liquids

Nanoscale Res Lett. 2016 Dec;11(1):348. doi: 10.1186/s11671-016-1559-6. Epub 2016 Jul 27.

Authors

Fangqing Xia¹, Huaisong Yong¹, Xiao Han¹, Dazhi Sun^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, 518055, Guangdong Province, China.
² Department of Materials Science and Engineering, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, 518055, Guangdong Province, China. sundz@sustc.edu.cn.
³ Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Nanoimprint Technology, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, 518055, Guangdong Province, China. sundz@sustc.edu.cn.

Abstract

Exfoliation of layered inorganic nanomaterials into single-layered sheets has been widely interested in materials chemistry and composite fabrication. Here, we report the exfoliation of layered zirconium phosphate nanoplatelets by using small molecule intercalating agents in ionic liquids, which opens a new platform for fabricating single-layered inorganic materials from synthetic layered compounds.

Keywords: Exfoliation; Intercalation; Ionic liquids; Layered phosphates; Nanoplatelets.