A sol-gel synthesis to prepare size and shape-controlled mesoporous nanostructures of binary (II-VI) metal oxides.

ABSTRACT: A base-catalyzed sol-gel approach combined with a solvent-driven self-assembly process at low temperature is augmented to make manganese oxide (Mn₃O₄), copper oxide (CuO), and magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH)₂) nanostructures with size- and shape-controlled morphologies. Nanostructures of Mn₃O₄ with either hexagonal, irregular particle, or ribbon shape morphologies with an average diameter ranged from 100 to 200 nm have been prepared in four different solvent types. In all morphologies of Mn₃O₄, the experimental XRD patterns have indexed the nanocrystal unit cell structure to triclinic. The hexagonal nanoparticles of Mn₃O₄ exhibit high mesoporocity with a BET surface area of 91.68 m² g<

SUBMITTER: Yarbrough R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9051609 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature