Highly ordered mesoporous Cr2O3 materials with enhanced performance for gas sensors and lithium ion batteries

Hao Liu; Xiwen Du; Xianran Xing; Guoxiu Wang; Shi Zhang Qiao

doi:10.1039/c1cc16341h

Highly ordered mesoporous Cr2O3 materials with enhanced performance for gas sensors and lithium ion batteries

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Jan 21;48(6):865-7. doi: 10.1039/c1cc16341h. Epub 2011 Dec 1.

Authors

Hao Liu¹, Xiwen Du, Xianran Xing, Guoxiu Wang, Shi Zhang Qiao

Affiliation

¹ ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia.

PMID: 22134423
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc16341h

Abstract

Highly ordered mesoporous Cr(2)O(3) materials with high specific surface area and narrow pore size distribution were successfully prepared by a vacuum assisted impregnation method. Both 2-dimensional hexagonal and 3-dimensional cubic Cr(2)O(3) mesoporous replicas from SBA-15 and KIT-6 templates exhibit enhanced performance for gas sensors and lithium ion batteries, compared to the bulk Cr(2)O(3) counterpart.