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Fabrication, Densification, and Replica Molding of 3D Carbon Nanotube Microstructures
Published on: July 2, 2012
Hollow nanostructures of platinum with controllable dimensions can be synthesized by templating against selenium
Brian Mayers1, Xuchuan Jiang, David Sunderland
1Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|October 30, 2003
Abstract:
Hollow nanostructures of platinum have been synthesized by reducing PtCl2 with alcohol in the presence of selenium nanowires or colloids. The Se template could be removed by soaking the resultant Se@Pt nanostructures in hydrazine or by heating them to 200-250 degrees C. The size and wall thickness of the polycrystalline hollow nanostructures could be controlled by varying the template, reaction time, and the concentration of PtCl2.
