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A Room-Temperature Reactive-Template Route to Mesoporous ZnGa2O4 with Improved Photocatalytic Activity in Reduction of CO2

✍ Scribed by Shi Cheng Yan; Shu Xin Ouyang; Jun Gao; Ming Yang; Jian Yong Feng; Xiao Xing Fan; Li Juan Wan; Zhao Sheng Li; Jin Hua Ye; Yong Zhou; Zhi Gang Zou


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
531 KB
Volume
49
Category
Article
ISSN
0044-8249

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✦ Synopsis


Mesoporous materials are of scientific and technological interest due to their potential applications in various areas. [1] Over the past two decades, significant effort has been devoted to the synthesis of mesoporous materials. For instance, mesoporous silica and phosphate metal oxides have been synthesized and applied widely in many industrial processes. [2] However, little progress has been made in the synthesis of mesoporous metal oxides containing more than one type of metal. To date, a limited number of routes including evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA) and nonaqueous solvent methods have been developed to synthesize multimetallic mesoporous materials such as Pb 3 Nb 4 O 13 , Bi 20 TiO 32 , SrTiO 3 , MgTa 2 O 6 , Co x Ti 1Àx O 2Àx , and Ce 1Àx Zr x O 2 . In these routes, introducing surfactant molecules or a template is a general method used to construct the mesostructures. Challenges in using the template method to synthesize multimetallic mesoporous materials are uncontrolled phase separation in the multicomponent reactions and poor thermal and chemical stability of the resulting mesoporous structure. [7] Maintaining the complete mesostructure during removal of the template by heating or chemical treatment is a key process for obtaining the expected mesostructures, and increases the uncertainty in a given synthetic route. In addition, to obtain a crystalline mesoporous material, high-temperature heat treatment is usually required for crystallization of the product. However, this process probably induces collapse of mesostructures.


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