Acta Phys. -Chim. Sin. ›› 2011, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (07): 1772-1776.doi: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB20110613

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Synthesis of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Loaded Fe, Co, Ni Nanocrystals by the Soft Templating Route and Their Characterization

LI Jian-Sheng, GU Juan, LING Xiao-Feng, SUN Xiu-Yun, SHEN Jin-You, HAN Wei-Qing, WANG Lian-Jun   

  1. School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, P. R. China
  • Received:2010-12-27 Revised:2011-03-06 Published:2011-06-28
  • Contact: WANG Lian-Jun E-mail:wanglj@mail.njust.edu.cn
  • Supported by:

    The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51078184), Cultivation Fund of the Key Scientific and Technical Innovation Project, Ministry of Education of China (708049), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China (BK2009392) and Research Funding of Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China (2010ZDJH03).

Abstract:

We report a one-step method for the synthesis of M(Fe, Co, Ni) nanocrystals supported by ordered mesoporous carbon (OMC) materials. M/OMC composites were obtained by the soft templating route under acidic conditions using resorcinol and formaldehyde as carbon precursors, triblock copolymer Pluronic F127 as a template and Fe, Co, Ni nitrates as metal precursors. The as-synthesized materials were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and N2 adsorption. Characterization revealed that the as-synthesized materials possessed an ordered hexagonal mesoporous structure similar to SBA-15. The specific surface areas of the Fe/OMC, Co/OMC, and Ni/OMC composites were found to be 586, 626, and 698 m2·g-1, respectively. The fact that the metal species were present as highly dispersed nanocrystals in the OMC matrix was confirmed by XRD and high-resolution TEM.

Key words: Ordered mesoporous carbon, Nanocrystal, Composite, Soft template, Synthesis