Ionic liquid mediated auto-templating assembly of CaCO3–chitosan hybrid nanoboxes and nanoframes

Anna Chen; Zhiping Luo; Mustafa Akbulut

doi:10.1039/C0CC04242K

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Ionic liquid mediated auto-templating assembly of CaCO₃–chitosan hybrid nanoboxes and nanoframes†

Anna Chen,^a Zhiping Luo^a and Mustafa Akbulut*^b

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^a Microscopy and Imaging Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

^b Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering Program, Texas A&M University, 230 Jack E. Brown Engineering Bldg., College Station, USA
E-mail: mustafa.akbulut@chemail.tamu.edu
Tel: +1 979 847-8766

Abstract

Herein we report an innovative approach using ionic liquid (1-butyl-3-methyl-imidazolium chloride) mediated auto-templating assembly of CaCO₃ and chitosan to produce well-defined hollow inorganic–organic nanoboxes and nanoframes. By varying experimental conditions, size and shell-thicknesses of hollow nanostructures can be adjusted from 200 to 400 nm and 15 to 75 nm, respectively.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC04242K
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 06 Oct 2010
Accepted: 23 Nov 2010
First published: 10 Dec 2010

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Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 2312-2314

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Ionic liquid mediated auto-templating assembly of CaCO₃–chitosan hybrid nanoboxes and nanoframes

A. Chen, Z. Luo and M. Akbulut, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 2312 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC04242K

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