A Regiospecific Co-Assembly Method to Functionalize Ordered Mesoporous Metal Oxides with Customizable Noble Metal Nanocrystals.

ABSTRACT: An efficient regiospecific co-assembly (RSCA) strategy is developed for general synthesis of mesoporous metal oxides with pore walls precisely decorated by highly dispersed noble metal nanocrystals with customized parameters (diameter and composition). It features the rational utilization of the specific interactions between hydrophilic molecular precursors, hydrophobic noble metal nanocrystals, and amphiphilic block copolymers, to achieve regiospecific co-assembly as confirmed by molecular dynamics simulations. Through this RSCA strategy, we achieved a controllable synthesis of a variety of functional mesoporous metal oxide composites (e.g., WO₃, ZrO₂, TiO₂) with in-pore walls precisely decorated by various noble metal nanocrystals of tailored components (

SUBMITTER: Li J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11672546 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature