Synthesis of ordered mesoporous Fe3O4 and γ-Fe2O3 with crystalline walls using post-template reduction/oxidation
Synthesis of ordered mesoporous Fe3O4 and γ-Fe2O3 with crystalline walls using post-template reduction/oxidation
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DOI:
10.1021/ja063662i
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发表时间:
2006-10-04
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15
通讯作者:
Bruce, Peter G.
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作者:
Jiao, Feng;Jumas, Jean-Claude;Bruce, Peter G.
Ordered mesoporous Fe3O4 with crystalline walls (inverse spinel structure) has been synthesized for the first time, representing to the best of our knowledge, the first synthesis of a reduced mesoporous iron oxide. Synthesis was achieved by reducing ordered mesoporous alpha-Fe2O3 (corundum structure) to Fe3O4 spinel then to gamma-Fe2O3 by oxidation, while preserving the ordered mesostructure and crystalline walls throughout. Such solid/solid transformations demonstrate the stability of the mesostructure to structural phase transitions from the hexagonal close packed oxide subarray of alpha-Fe2O3 (corundum structure) to the cubic close packed subarray of Fe3O4 spinel and gamma-Fe2O3. Preliminary magnetic measurements reveal that the spins in both Fe3O4 and gamma-Fe2O3 are frozen at 295 K, despite the wall thickness (7 nm) being less than the lower limit for such freezing in corresponding nanoparticles (> 8 nm).