Issue 32, 2017, Issue in Progress

Fabrication of a silica/titania hollow nanorod and its electroresponsive activity

Abstract

In this study, a 1D oriented hollow SiO2/TiO2 (HST) rod-like material was successfully fabricated via a sequential combination of sol–gel use, TiO2 incorporation, and a sonication-mediated etching and redeposition method. This carefully manipulated new material has numerous advantageous physical and intrinsic properties, such as increased surface area, pore volume, interfacial polarization, and dielectric properties introduced from each synthetic step. The synthesized HST rod was adopted as an electrorheological (ER) material for practical examination of these characteristics. The HST rod materials exhibited 1.5- and 3-fold higher ER performance than a non-metal SiO2 rod and a non-hollow SiO2/TiO2 core/shell (ST/CS) rod, which are interim synthetic steps. Moreover, the HST rod exhibited remarkable 6-fold increased ER efficiency relative to a sphere-shaped hollow SiO2/TiO2 particle synthesized using a similar experimental method. These notable enhancements in ER performance are attributed to incorporation of the experimentally designed characteristics of the HST rod: 1D structure, metal oxide incorporation, and creation of a hollow cavity. For future study, we expect that these versatile HST rod materials can be applied in a range of fields including drug delivery, photo-catalysis, and as building blocks.

Graphical abstract: Fabrication of a silica/titania hollow nanorod and its electroresponsive activity

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
13 Feb 2017
Accepted
27 Mar 2017
First published
04 Apr 2017
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

RSC Adv., 2017,7, 19754-19763

Fabrication of a silica/titania hollow nanorod and its electroresponsive activity

C. Yoon, J. Noh, Y. Jang and J. Jang, RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 19754 DOI: 10.1039/C7RA01786C

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