Sonochemical Synthesis of Nanosized Hollow Hematite
Jin Ho Bang and Kenneth S. Suslick* School of Chemical Sciences, UniVersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 South Mathews AVenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801 Received October 26, 2006; E-mail: [email protected]
Hollow inorganic materials are of great interest, in part because
ticles as a template has been demonstrated. The hollow iron oxide
is the thermodynamically stable crystalline hematite (R-Fe2O3) and shows weak ferromagnetism down to 5 K. Without the use of carbon template, only agglomerated amorphous iron oxide was obtained, demonstrating the dual roles of the carbon nanopar- ticles: template and fuel for combustion. We believe that this procedure will be easily extended to prepare other hollow inorganic materials. Acknowledgment. We gratefully acknowledge K.-W. Kwon and Prof. M. Shim (Raman spectra), Dr. Jian-Guo Wen and Changhui Lei (EELS and STEM), and Profs. J. W. Stucki and B. A. Goodman (Mössbauer). This work was supported by the DOE (Grant DEFG02-91-ER45439) and the Center for Microanalysis of Materials and the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, with salary support from NSF (Grant CHE-03-15494). Supporting Information Available: Further characterization of nanosized hollow hematite and characterization of amorphous iron oxide synthesized without carbon template. 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