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Fabrication of polymeric hollow nanospheres, hollow nanocubes and hollow plates

Daming Cheng, Haibing Xia and Hardy Sze On Chan1

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A facile strategy for fabricating polypyrrole–chitosan (PPy–CS) hollow nanostructures with different shapes (sphere, cube and plate) and a wide range of sizes (from 35 to 600 nm) is described. These hollow structures have been fabricated using silver bromide as a single template material for polymer nucleation and growth. PPy–CS hollow nanostructures are formed by reaction with an etching agent to remove the core. These hollow nanostructures have been extensively characterized using various techniques such as TEM, FT-IR, UV–vis, and XRD.


PACS

81.07.-b Nanoscale materials and structures: fabrication and characterization

81.65.Cf Surface cleaning, etching, patterning

81.16.Be Chemical synthesis methods

68.37.Lp Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

Subjects

Surfaces, interfaces and thin films

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Dates

Issue 6 (28 March 2006)

Received 7 September 2005, in final form 13 January 2006

Published 27 February 2006



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