Novel hollow mesoporous @M/CeO(2) (M = Au, Pd, and Au-Pd) nanospheres are created. The nanospheres can be used as effective nanoreactors with superior catalytic activity and stability for reduction of 4-nitrophenol due to their hollow mesoporous structural features.

Multifunctional Bi2O3 porous nanospheres (PNs) with tunable size have been successfully synthesized via a facile solvothermal method. The obtained Bi2O3 porous nanospheres demonstrate outstanding performance in visible-light-driven photocatalysis for Cr(VI) and organic dye removal, inactivation of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, as well as template-synthesis for fabrication of bismuth...

In this work, yolk-shell structured magnetic hollow mesoporous silica (MHMS) nanospheres with controllable magnetic responsibility, high specific surface area, a huge cavity and ink-bottle type mesopores were successfully synthesized in one-step by an electrostatic self-assembly templated approach. The obtained MHMS nanospheres exhibited low cytotoxicity, excellent biocompatibility and potentia...

Hydrazide-containing bifunctional nanospheres were covalently coupled on the surface with IgG, avidin, and biotin, to generate novel fluorescent-magnetic-biotargeting trifunctional nanospheres, which can be used in a number of biomedical applications, including visual sorting and manipulation of apoptotic cells as demonstrated here.

An efficient and simple protocol for synthesis of novel La(2)O(3) hollow nanospheres of size about 30 ± 2 nm using polymeric micelles is reported. The La(2)O(3) hollow nanospheres exhibit high charge capacity and cycling performance in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries (LIBs), which was scrutinized for the first time among the rare-earth oxides.

The paper reports a process for synthesis of γ-alumina from kaolin. Kaolin was transformed to meta-kaolin by calcination at 800 ̊C for 2h. γ-alumina powder was synthesized through extracting alumina from metakaolin via H2SO4 and meta-kaolin reactions and consequently precipitation in ethanol, which led to form the aluminum sulfate. The precipitated aluminum sulfate was dried and calcined at 900 ̊...

Many pioneers from around the world followed this initial experience but long-term results and good methodology were lacking. Recently, a number of reports 4-6 have focused attention again on an alumina-on-alumina combination. More than 30 years after its introduction into clinical practice, this article considers the current information on the alumina-on-alumina combination from both experimen...

A new rapid, very simple and one-step sol-gel strategy for the large-scale preparation of highly porous γ-Al₂O₃ is presented. The resulting mesoporous alumina materials feature high surface areas (400 m² g-1), large pore volumes (0.8 mL g-1) and the γ-Al₂O₃ phase is obtained at low temperature (500 °C). The main advantages and drawbacks of different preparations of mesoporous alumina materials ...

In the present work, plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) is creatively introduced as a novel method to fabricate multi-layered nanospheres. Titanium (Ti) was oxidized in phosphate-based electrolyte containing ZnO nanoparticles (NPs), which results formation of nanospheres on ceramic coating. The as-fabricated nanosphere amorphous with three-layered architecture. inner layer contains Zn, Ca and ...