Issue 18, 2013
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Dalton Transactions

Facile synthesis of hollow silica spheres with nanoholes

Xuecheng Chen,*a   Karolina Wilgosz,a   Krzysztof Cendrowski,a   Tao Tang,*b   Paul K. Chu,*c   Ryszard J. Kalenczuka  and  Ewa Mijowskaa  

* Corresponding authors

a Nanotechnology Center, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

b State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, China

c Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
E-mail: xchen@zut.edu.pl, ttang@ciac.jl.cn, paul.chu@cityu.edu.hk

Abstract

The synthesis of designed nanostructures is an ultimate target of nanomaterial science. Here, silica spheres with nanoholes have been selectively prepared. Coating the necklace-like structured and magnetic nanoparticles along carbon nanotubes, which is an essential step of the simple synthetic procedure of silica hollow spheres, led to the formation of silica hollow spheres with controllable sized nanoholes in their shell walls. The synthesized hollow spheres with nanoholes would be a good support for loading large molecules, e.g. drugs and proteins.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3DT32736A
Article type
Paper
Submitted
15 Nov 2012
Accepted
07 Jan 2013
First published
08 Jan 2013

Dalton Trans., 2013,42, 6381-6385

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Facile synthesis of hollow silica spheres with nanoholes

X. Chen, K. Wilgosz, K. Cendrowski, T. Tang, P. K. Chu, R. J. Kalenczuk and E. Mijowska, Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 6381 DOI: 10.1039/C3DT32736A

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