Researchers from Chinese Academy of Sciences have prepared mesoporous hollow TiO2 microspheres via a facile solvothermal method using glycine as a multifunctional smart template.
The glycine serves as a sacrificial template, complexing agent and water supplier in the TiO2 microsphere synthesis and the cavity volume can be easily controlled by varying the mass of crude glycine used. Eu-doped TiO2 hollow spheres have been made by this method and they exhibit stronger photoluminescence – due to their unique microstructures – compared to conventional, hydrothermal samples.
Interested to know more? Why not read the full article for free: S. Ding, F. Huang, X. Mou, J. Wu and X. Lü, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/c0jm03628e (Advance Article)
