A 3D Pt/TiO2 architecture assembled from 1D nanowires has been designed and successfully prepared by an environmentally-friendly one-pot solvothermal process. The formation mechanism has been investigated and the unique architecture exhibits an excellent photocatalytic hydrogen production rate as high as 13.33 mmol h(-1) g(-1), the corresponding apparent quantum efficiency reaches 34%.

A new coordination polymer of polyoxomolybdate, {[Cu(4)(bbp)(5)Mo(6)O(22)]·(H(2)O)(4)}(∞) (bbp = 1,4-bis(benzoimidazol-1-yl)phenyl), has been synthesized under solvothermal reaction, which represents a double-bridging interpenetrating α-Po network based on the bimetallic cluster {Cu(4)Mo(6)}. The thermogravimetric and electrochemical behaviors have also been studied.

The solvothermal in situ double cycloaddition reaction of 2-cyanopyrimidine, Cu(2)O and NaN(3) with aqueous ammonia additive generated a two dimensional copper(I) coordination polymer with 5-pyrimidyl-tetrazolate, 3,5-bispyrimidyl-1,2,4-triazolate and the cyano group as the ligands. This reaction can be tuned to yield two dimensional coordination polymers solely based on tetrazolate or 1,2,4-tr...

Fibrous hydroxyapatite, rice-like β-tricalcium phosphate and DCPA plates were synthesised by water controlled-release solvothermal process using the esterification reaction.

We review the solution-based synthesis routes to cerium oxide materials where one or more elements are included in place of a proportion cerium, i.e., substitution is performed. The focus on solvothermal method, reagents heated above boiling point solvent induce crystallisation directly from solution. This yields unusual compositions with crystal morphology often nanoscale. Chemical all parts p...

Two L-proline based homochiral frameworks synthesised via diffusion and solvothermal methods display distinct L-proline bonding modes, one N,O chelating and one O,O bridging with amine nitrogen not bound to the metal, with binding mode dependent upon the degree of protonation of the amino acid.

Here, we prepared LiMn0.8Fe0.2PO4 microspheres with an open three-dimensional nanoporous structure by a facile ion-exchange solvothermal method. The micro/nano-structured material exhibits an ultralong cycle life, and retains a reversible capacity of 105 mA h g(-1) after 1000 cycles at 5 C, corresponding to the capacity retention of 94.0% and only 0.0068 mA h g(-1) loss per cycle.

The solvothermal reaction of elemental zinc with sulfur in ethylenediamine (en) as solvent yields [ZnS-0.5(NH2CH2CH2NH2)], 1, an unprecedented ethylenediamine pillared ZnS layered compound, containing two dimensional (2-D) boat-type 6-membered rings, which was characterized by ab initio structure solution from powder diffraction data (SDPD).