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A Method to Fabricate Disconnected Silver Nanostructures in 3D
Published on: November 27, 2012
Hierarchically porous silver monoliths from colloidal bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gels
1Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, 916 Engineering Tower, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
Abstract:
Silver monoliths with interconnected hierarchical pore networks and three-dimensional (3D) bicontinuous morphology are synthesized from a colloidal bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gel (bijel) via reduction of silver ions within a nanoporous cross-linked polymer template. The pore sizes may be tuned independently and range from tens of nanometers to over a hundred micrometers. The method is straightforward as well as flexible and can pave the way to a host of hierarchical materials for current technologies.
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