Template Synthesis of Sc@C₈₂(I) Nanowires and Nanotubes at Room Temperature

Abstract

The use of natural biological materials as templates to construct novel hierarchical inorganic materials is an emerging area due to their unique and complex microstructures. [1] Compare to artificial templates, biological materials are hierarchical, abundant, complex, renewable, and environmentally benign. So far, several types of biological materials such as diatoms, [2] bacteria, [3,4] pollen, [5] cornstarch, [6] chitin, [7] and wood [8,9] have been utilized in order to prepare hierarchical inorganic materials.Among them, wood has highly anisotropic cellular structures, which can be used as a hierarchical template to generate novel ceramics with micro-, meso-, and macrostructures. Con- COMMUNICATIONS

Hybrid Nanostructures for Energy Storage Applications

“…Among various methods of 1‐D nanowire synthesis, the anodic alumina template based routes have received considerable attention due to its several unique structural properties, such as controllable pore diameter, extremely narrow pore size distribution, and ideally cylindrical pore shape 65, 74–78. There have been several attempts to fabricate CNT based 1‐D core‐shell hybrid nanostructures using different techniques, such as electrochemical deposition, sol–gel, electroless deposition, CVD, and pressure injection.…”

Lu2@C82 Nanorods with Enhanced Photoluminescence and Photoelectrochemical Properties

“…2,3 For mono-EMFs which contain only one metal atom, Wang et al fabricated nanotubes of Sc@C 82 with an anodic aluminum oxide template followed by electrochemical deposition in 2005. 4 In 2008, Tsuchiya et al obtained needlelike structures of La@C 82 (Ad) with a liquid−liquid interface precipitation (LLIP) method, which showed a p-type fieldeffect transistor (FET) property. 2 For cluster−EMFs (metallic clusters encapsulated in fullerenes), Sc 3 N@C 80 nanorods and nanosheets were first prepared by Wakahara et al in 2010, 5 and then in 2014, Xu et al reported the preparation of threedimensional (3D) nanostructures of Sc 3 N@C 80 via a microwave-assisted LLIP method.…”

“…To this end, ordered nano-/microstructures are normally necessary to achieve the corresponding applications. However, investigations of nanostructures of EMFs and their applications are quite limited up to now. , For mono-EMFs which contain only one metal atom, Wang et al fabricated nanotubes of Sc@C 82 with an anodic aluminum oxide template followed by electrochemical deposition in 2005 . In 2008, Tsuchiya et al obtained needlelike structures of La@C 82 (Ad) with a liquid–liquid interface precipitation (LLIP) method, which showed a p-type field-effect transistor (FET) property .…”

A highly efficient and tumor vascular-targeting therapeutic technique with size-expansible gadofullerene nanocrystals

“…Our laboratory has been devoted to the study of fullerene and metallofullerene nanomaterials in the last decades [16,17], in particular the metallofullerene particles in different forms [18][19][20][21]. As motivated by a recent study on the synthesis of water soluble Gd@C 60 crystalline particles with a simple solid-liquid reaction [22], we prepared similar crystalline Gd@C 82 (OH) m nanoparticles using this novel technique.…”