Generalized Domino-Driven Synthesis of Hollow Hybrid Carbon Spheres with Ultrafine Metal Nitrides/Oxides

Fei Xu, Baichuan Ding, Yuqian Qiu, Renhao Dong, Wanqi Zhuang, Xiaosa Xu, Haojie Han, Jiaying Yang, Bingqing Wei, Hongqiang Wang, Stefan Kaskel

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Abstract

We have demonstrated an ingenious one-pot aqueous domino-driven synthesis toward hollow hybrid spheres with ultrafine metal nitrides/oxides in hollow carbon cavity. The micelle-interfacial copolymerization is applied for shell formation, while the copolymerization-generated H+ spontaneously triggers oxometallate condensation for encapsulation. By regulating the synthetic conditions, the encapsulated metal species can be well tailored with different sizes/contents (nanocluster to several nanometers) and compositions (VN, VO, MoN, WN, bimetal-based nitrides). The ultrafine VN confined in hollow carbon exhibits excellent potassium storage performance.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)246-260
Number of pages15
JournalMatter
Volume3
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2020

Keywords

  • domino-driven synthesis
  • encapsulation
  • fast kinetics
  • hollow carbon spheres
  • hollow hybrid materials
  • interfacial copolymerization
  • MAP5: Improvement
  • metal nitrides/oxides
  • potassium-ion storage
  • ultrafine nanoparticles

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