Hydrothermal synthesis of novel AlPO4-5 brooms and nano-fibers and their templated carbon structures†
Abstract
Aluminophosphates molecular sieves AlPO4-5 with novel morphologies of brooms and nano-fibers (∼3.8 µm and 70–200 nm in width, respectively) were hydrothermally synthesized by varying the precursor compositions, and used as templates to prepare hexagonal carbon micro and submicro tubes.