Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

A general soft-enveloping strategy in the templating synthesis of mesoporous metal nanostructures

  • Jixiang Fang,
  • Lingling Zhang,
  • Jiang Li,
  • Lu Lu,
  • Chuansheng Ma,
  • Shaodong Cheng,
  • Zhiyuan Li,
  • Qihua Xiong,
  • Hongjun You

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02930-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Metal species are highly mobile within mesoporous silica, making it difficult to template growth of metallic nanocrystals inside the channels. Here, the authors introduce a solid-liquid-solution interfacial strategy to suppress migration of the metal species, achieving control over a variety of mesostructured nanomaterials.