Fabrication of High Surface Area Microporous ZnO from ZnO/Carbon Sacrificial Composite Monolith Template
Fabrication of porous materials from the standard sacrificial template method allows metal oxide nanostructures to be produced and have several applications in energy, filtration and constructing sensing devices. However, the low surface area of these nanostructures is a significant drawback for mos...
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| description | Fabrication of porous materials from the standard sacrificial template method allows metal oxide nanostructures to be produced and have several applications in energy, filtration and constructing sensing devices. However, the low surface area of these nanostructures is a significant drawback for most applications. Here, we report the synthesis of ZnO/carbon composite monoliths in which carbon is used as a sacrificial template to produce zinc oxide (ZnO) porous nanostructures with a high specific surface area. The synthesized porous oxides of ZnO with a specific surface area of 78 m<sup>2</sup>/g are at least one order of magnitude higher than that of the ZnO nanotubes reported in the literature. The crucial point to achieving this remarkable result was the usage of a novel ZnO/carbon template where the carbon template was removed by simple heating in the air. As a high surface area porous nanostructured ZnO, these synthesized materials can be useful in various applications including catalysis, photocatalysis, separation, sensing, solar energy harvest and Zn-ion battery and as supercapacitors for energy storage. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-615060c285fc499ba6a49c2426a8ad782023-11-23T21:12:16ZengMDPI AGMicromachines2072-666X2022-02-0113233510.3390/mi13020335Fabrication of High Surface Area Microporous ZnO from ZnO/Carbon Sacrificial Composite Monolith TemplateKunal Mondal0Monsur Islam1Srujan Singh2Ashutosh Sharma3Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaInstitute of Microstructure Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, GermanyDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaFabrication of porous materials from the standard sacrificial template method allows metal oxide nanostructures to be produced and have several applications in energy, filtration and constructing sensing devices. However, the low surface area of these nanostructures is a significant drawback for most applications. Here, we report the synthesis of ZnO/carbon composite monoliths in which carbon is used as a sacrificial template to produce zinc oxide (ZnO) porous nanostructures with a high specific surface area. The synthesized porous oxides of ZnO with a specific surface area of 78 m<sup>2</sup>/g are at least one order of magnitude higher than that of the ZnO nanotubes reported in the literature. The crucial point to achieving this remarkable result was the usage of a novel ZnO/carbon template where the carbon template was removed by simple heating in the air. As a high surface area porous nanostructured ZnO, these synthesized materials can be useful in various applications including catalysis, photocatalysis, separation, sensing, solar energy harvest and Zn-ion battery and as supercapacitors for energy storage.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/13/2/335ZnOporous metal oxidesbet surface areasacrificial template |
| spellingShingle | Kunal Mondal Monsur Islam Srujan Singh Ashutosh Sharma Fabrication of High Surface Area Microporous ZnO from ZnO/Carbon Sacrificial Composite Monolith Template Micromachines ZnO porous metal oxides bet surface area sacrificial template |
| title | Fabrication of High Surface Area Microporous ZnO from ZnO/Carbon Sacrificial Composite Monolith Template |
| title_full | Fabrication of High Surface Area Microporous ZnO from ZnO/Carbon Sacrificial Composite Monolith Template |
| title_fullStr | Fabrication of High Surface Area Microporous ZnO from ZnO/Carbon Sacrificial Composite Monolith Template |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fabrication of High Surface Area Microporous ZnO from ZnO/Carbon Sacrificial Composite Monolith Template |
| title_short | Fabrication of High Surface Area Microporous ZnO from ZnO/Carbon Sacrificial Composite Monolith Template |
| title_sort | fabrication of high surface area microporous zno from zno carbon sacrificial composite monolith template |
| topic | ZnO porous metal oxides bet surface area sacrificial template |
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