Synthesis of Hierarchical Silica/Titania Hollow Nanoparticles and Their Enhanced Electroresponsive Activity
Chang-Min Yoon1, Jaehoon Ryu1, Juyoung Yun1
1School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University , 599 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, Korea.
Abstract:
Wrinkled silica nanoparticle (WSN)-based hollow SiO2/TiO2 nanoparticles (W-HNPs) with hierarchically arrayed internal surfaces were prepared via the combination of sol-gel, TiO2 coating, and etching of core template techniques. The hierarchical internal surface of W-HNPs was attained using WSNs as a core template. Compared with SiO2 sphere-templated hollow SiO2/TiO2 nanoparticles (S-HNPs) with flat inner surfaces, W-HNPs displayed distinctive surface areas, TiO2 loading amounts, and dielectric properties arising from the hierarchical internal surface. The unique properties of W-HNPs were further investigated as an electrorheological (ER) material. W-HNP-based ER fluids exhibited ca. 1.9-fold enhancement in the ER efficiency compared to that of S-HNP-based ER fluids. Such enhancement was attributed to the unique inner surface of W-HNPs, which effectively enhanced the polarizability by increasing the number of charge accumulation sites, and to the presence of the high-dielectric TiO2. This study demonstrated the advantages, in terms of practical ER applications, of hollow nanomaterials having uniquely arrayed internal spaces.
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