Facile synthesis and characterization of glass/cobalt core/shell composite spheres with tunable shell morphologies |
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Authors: | Zhen-guo An Jing-jie Zhang Shun-long Pan |
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Affiliation: | a Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 2, Beiyitiao, Zhongguancun, Beijing 100190, China b Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China |
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Abstract: | Polyhedral cobalt microcrystals assembled on hollow glass spheres are successfully synthesized by a facile and easy-control hydrothermal reduction process, and thus hierarchical glass/cobalt core/shell composite hollow spheres are fabricated with low-density (0.96 g cm−3). By properly tuning the process conditions and the component of the reaction solution, a series of composite spheres with gradient in morphologies of the shell layer can be prepared. Based on a series of contrast experiments, the probable formation mechanism of the core/shell hierarchical structures is proposed. The magnetic properties of the products are studied and the results demonstrate that the composite spheres present ferromagnetic properties related to the special shell morphologies. The composite hollow spheres thus obtained may have some promising applications in the fields of low-density magnetic materials, conduction, and catalysis, etc. This work provides an additional strategy to prepared core/shell composite spheres with tailored shell morphology and magnetic properties. |
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Keywords: | Hydrothermal synthesis Assembly Cobalt Core/shell Magnetic properties |
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