Template synthesis of metal microtubules

Nanomaterials: A Membrane-Based Synthetic Approach

“…My research group has been exploring a method, that we call templatesynthesis, for preparing micro and nanomaterials [see, for example, (7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)]. …”

Coaxial metal and magnetic alloy nanotubes in polycarbonate templates by electroless deposition

“…A number of researchers have demonstrated templated metal nanotube formation using chemical vapour deposition, [3] electroplating [4,5] electroless plating [6][7][8][9] and supercritical fluids [10]. Of these techniques, the simplest in terms of equipment and processing is electroless deposition.…”

“…The electrochemical reactions proceed at the sidewall of the template which then grows radially into the host tube. The process is simpler than electrolytic deposition which requires either the predeposition of 'molecular anchors' on the internal tube walls [4] or the selection of deposition conditions to encourage gas evolution and tube formation by forcing the reaction to occur at the walls [5]. Solid nanowire deposition is observed in the absence of gas evolution [11].…”

Entropically driven self-assembly of multichannel rosette nanotubes

“…The strategies developed to achieve the synthesis of these materials spanned the areas of inorganic (1)(2)(3)(4)(5) and organic (6 -12) chemistry and resulted in, for instance, carbon nanotubes (1), peptide (9 -11), and rosette nanotubes (12), as well as surfactant-derived tubular architectures (13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20). Although inorganic systems benefit from the vast majority of the elements of the periodic table and the rich physical and chemical properties associated with them, organic systems inherited the power of synthetic molecular (21,22) and supramolecular (23,24) chemistry.…”