An Fe3O4-graphene oxide nanocomposite has been synthesized via a chemical reaction with a magnetite particle size of 18-25 nm. The resulting nanocomposite can be easily manipulated by an external magnetic field, exhibits excellent catalytic activity and may be reused for several cycles with marginal loss of activity. This recyclable nanocomposite provides an efficient, economic, novel route for...

Recently, there has been great interest in the synthesis and application of various kinds of nanostructured noble metals such as platinum, gold and silver. Nanostructured silvers have been widely investigated as antimicrobial materials, bio-sensors, catalysts, and advanced materials exhibiting surface plasmon resonance and surface enhanced Raman scattering. All this research is mainly based on ...

Three-dimensional cubic ordered mesoporous carbons with tunable pore sizes have been synthesized by using cubic Ia3d mesoporous KIT-6 silica as the hard template and boric acid as the pore expanding agent. The prepared ordered mesoporous carbons were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and nitrogen adsorption-desorption anal...

A magnetic chitosan-polypyrrole-magnetite (Cs-PPy-Fe3O4) nanocomposite is prepared in a simple one-step method via in situ chemical polymerization of pyrrole using anhydrous FeCl3 as an oxidant in the presence of Cs. Magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles of size in the range of 10-20 nm are successfully introduced into the Cs-PPy matrix. Adsorption of an anionic dye (acid green 25, AG) from aqueous solu...

A Ag/TiO2 nanocomposite, in which silver nanoparticles are highly dispersed in the uniformly sized pores of a cubic mesoporous TiO2 molecular-sieve film, has been fabricated.

BiOCl-SiO₂ KIT-6 composite materials with raspberry-like structures are facilely prepared under hydrothermal conditions. The mesoporous siliceous support of SiO₂ KIT-6-incorporated BiOCl with enlarged yet refined surface morphology characterized by physiochemical methods exhibits an improved electrochemical performance. A sensitive electrochemical detection method of cadmium concentration using...

Mesoporous carbons with ordered channel structure (COU-1) have been successfully fabricated via a direct carbonization of an organic-organic nanocomposite.

Spherical iron oxide nanocomposite particles composed of magnetite and wustite have been successfully synthesized using a novel method of pulsed laser irradiation in ethyl acetate. Both the size and the composition of nanocomposite particles are controlled by laser irradiation condition. Through tuning the laser fluence, the Fe3O4/FeO phase ratio can be precisely controlled, and the magnetic pr...

Highly ordered mesoporous Cr(2)O(3) materials with high specific surface area and narrow pore size distribution were successfully prepared by a vacuum assisted impregnation method. Both 2-dimensional hexagonal and 3-dimensional cubic Cr(2)O(3) mesoporous replicas from SBA-15 and KIT-6 templates exhibit enhanced performance for gas sensors and lithium ion batteries, compared to the bulk Cr(2)O(3...