The rational design of cost effective and highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts plays an extremely important role in promoting the commercial applications electrochemical water splitting. Herein we reported a sacrificial template strategy for preparation borate anion doped Co3O4@ZIF-67 nanocages assembled with nanosheets (B-Co3O4@ZIF-67) by hydrothermal boronation zeolitic ...

Abstract Long-term stability and selectivity are crucial for the practical application of gas sensors, which closely related to microstructure composition sensor materials. In this work, Co-based metal organic framework (MOF) is used as a precursor prepared by simple hydrothermal method. After calcination, series Co3O4 nanospheres with various microstructures derived. When calcination temperatu...

Sunlight responsible mono- and co-doped TiO2 nanoparticles (Con+ Fen+) were prepared via sol–gel technique. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) results showed no phase change of was observed after the addition Con+ Fen+ ions. Diffuse reflectance spectra (DRS) a significant red-shift absorption edge doping by Con band gap energy reduced sharply from 3.10 to 1.72 eV. photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) emph...

a new nano-sized cobalt(ii) coordination polymer, (col1).0.5dmf.1.5ch3oh(1); [h2l1 = 5-(4-carboxy phenyl azo) salicyilic acid] has been synthesized by a sonochemical method. the thermal stability of compound 1 was studied by thermo- gravimetric and differential thermal analyses. nano-structure of this coordination polymer was characterized by elemental analyses, ir spectroscopy,  powder x-ray d...

Highly efficient and chemically compatible LnxSr1-xCoO3-delta (Ln = La, Sm, Gd, ...)/Co3O4 electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction are presented and the very low cathode polarization resistances and excellent performances implied their promising application for developing intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), as well as potential application for oxygen separation membr...

A generalized hydrothermal strategy for fabricating three-dimensional (3D) battery electrodes is presented. The hydrothermal growth deposits electrochemically active nanomaterials uniformly throughout the complex 3D mesostructure of the scaffold. Ni inverse opals coated with SnO2 nanoparticles or Co3O4 nanoplatelets, and SiO2 inverse opals coated with Fe3O4 are fabricated, all of which show att...

Cubic ordered mesoporous Co3O4, prepared via the nanocasting pathway using KIT-6 as hard template, was found to be an excellent catalyst for low temperature CO oxidation, with the activity clearly depending on surface area and pore systems of the catalysts.

A facile in situ vapour phase hydrothermal (VPH) surface doping approach has been developed for fabrication of high performance S-doped Co3O4 electrocatalysts with an unprecedentedly high surface S content (>47%). The demonstrated VPH doping approach could be useful for enrichment of surface active sites for other metal oxide electrocatalysts.