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Effect of Microwave Synthesis Conditions on the Structure of Nickel Hydroxide Nanosheets
Published on: August 18, 2023
Acrylate intercalation and in situ polymerization in iron-, cobalt-, or manganese-substituted nickel hydroxides
C Vaysse1, L Guerlou-Demourgues, E Duguet
1Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux-CNRS and Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie et Physique de Bordeaux, Université Bordeaux I, 87 Avenue du Dr Albert Schweitzer, F-33608 Pessac Cedex, France.
Abstract:
A chimie douce route based on successive redox and exchange reactions has allowed us to prepare new hybrid organic-inorganic materials, composed of polyacrylate macromolecules intercalated into layered double hydroxides (LDHs), deriving from Ni(OH)(2). Monomer intercalation and in situ polymerization mechanisms have appeared to be strongly dependent upon the nature of the substituting cation in the slabs. In the case of iron-based LDHs, a phase containing acrylate monomeric intercalates has been isolated and identified by X-ray diffraction and infrared spectroscopy. Second, interslab free-radical polymerization of acrylate anions has been successfully initiated using potassium persulfate. In cobalt- or manganese-based LDHs, one-step polymerization has been observed, leading directly to a material containing polyacrylate intercalate.
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