Conventional thermometers have been widely employed in scientific researches and industrial applications. Thermometers with nanometer scaled spatial resolution attract more and more attentions recently with the rapid development of nanotechnology and nanoengineering. Many kinds of nanothermometers have been designed by duplicating the conventional thermometers at nanoscale through decreasing th...

In this paper mesoporous SnO2 nanospheres with an average diameter of about 83 nm, composed of many tiny primary particles ( 10 nm) and holes, are synthesized on a large scale by a simple hydrothermal route. The as-prepared mesoporous SnO2 nanospheres were uniformly coated with carbon by a further hydrothermal treatment in glucose aqueous solution. As anode materials for lithium-ion batteries, ...

We successfully synthesized two different structures, silica nanospheres and porous polymer membranes, via nanophase separation, based on a sol-gel process. Silica sol, which was in situ polymerized from tetraorthosilicate, was used as a precursor. Subsequently, it was mixed with a polymer that was used as a matrix component. It was observed that nanophase separation occurred after the mixing o...

Here, we report the synthesis of nitrogen-doped hollow carbon nanospheres (N-HCSs) via a two-step Stöber method. The resultant N-HCSs possess a uniform size of ∼220 nm, a high nitrogen loading content of 14.8 wt% and a high surface area of 767 m(2) g(-1), as well as exhibit a considerable performance for CO2 capture with a capacity of 2.67 mmol g(-1) and a high selectivity in a mixture gas (N2 ...

In this study, carbon nano-micro spheres with tightly controllable size, regularand perfect shape, high yields and narrow size distribution were prepared simply fromglucose and DI water as precursors using a hydrothermal method. By setting the initialconcentration of glucose solution and changing the hydrothermal process time at aconstant temperature of 160 °C, carbon spheres with various sizes...

Monodisperse single-crystalline α-cristobalite nanospheres have been synthesized by hydrocarbon-pyrolysis-induced carbon deposition on amorphous silica aerosol nanoparticles, devitrification of the coated silica at high temperature, and subsequent carbon removal by oxidation. The nanosphere size can be well controlled by tuning the size of the colloidal silica precursor. Uniform, high-purity na...

A rapid microwave-hydrothermal method has been developed to prepare monodisperse colloidal carbon nanospheres from glucose solution, and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are successfully assembled on the surface of the colloidal carbon nanospheres by a self-assembly approach. The resultingAuNP/colloidal carbon nanosphere hybridmaterial (AuNP/C) has been characterized and is expected to offer a promis...

Transition-metal sulfide hollow nanostructures have received intensive attention in energy-related applications due to their unique structural features and high electrochemical activities. Here, a well-designed composite of NiCo2S4@C is successfully fabricated using a facile in situ template removal method. The obtained composite shows unique microstructures of hollow nanospheres (∼650 nm in di...