Mesoporous metallic cells: design of uniformly sized hollow mesoporous Pt-Ru particles with tunable shell thicknesses

Hamed Ataee-Esfahani; Jian Liu; Ming Hu; Nobuyoshi Miyamoto; Satoshi Tominaka; Kevin C W Wu; Yusuke Yamauchi

doi:10.1002/smll.201202539

Mesoporous metallic cells: design of uniformly sized hollow mesoporous Pt-Ru particles with tunable shell thicknesses

Small. 2013 Apr 8;9(7):1047-51. doi: 10.1002/smll.201202539. Epub 2012 Dec 27.

Authors

Hamed Ataee-Esfahani¹, Jian Liu, Ming Hu, Nobuyoshi Miyamoto, Satoshi Tominaka, Kevin C W Wu, Yusuke Yamauchi

Affiliation

¹ World Premier International (WPI), Research Center for Materials, Nanoarchitechtonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

PMID: 23281242
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201202539

Abstract

A new class of hollow mesoporous Pt-Ru and Pt particles with uniform size, named 'mesoporous metallic cells', are synthesized through a dual-templating approach using colloidal silica particles and non-ionic surfactants. To realize the full potential of mesoporous metals as electrocatalysts, the shell thicknesses, compositions, and hollow cavity sizes are precisely controlled.