Chemical synthesis of transition metal oxide nanotubes in water using an iced lipid nanotube as a template.
An iced lipid nanotube has been employed as a template to perform sol-gel transcription of transition metal alkoxides in the absence of solution catalysts, giving titania, tantalum oxide and vanadium oxide nanotubes in aqueous dispersions.
Ji
Qingmin
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Nanoarchitectonics Research Center (NARC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan.
Shimizu
Toshimi
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