title: Easy replication of Pueraria Lobata toward hierarchically ordered porous gamma-Al2O3.
abstract: Hierarchically ordered porous alumina was prepared via a facile immersion-fuming-calcination process using Pueraria lobata as template. The as-prepared alumina inherited nearly all morphological features of the template, as shown by SEM observations. It also contains abundant mesopores based on nitrogen adsorption-desorption measurements. The crystalline phase of the as-prepared alumina was ascertained to be gamma-alumina by analyzing its XRD pattern. Pt nanoparticles were in situ synthesized in the gamma-alumina matrix and annealed at different temperatures in N(2) atmosphere. TEM observations showed that Pt nanoparticles supported by the as-prepared alumina have significantly high thermal stability.
authors.affiliation: Functional Nanomaterials Laboratory, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Chaoyangqu Datunlu Jia 3, Beijing 100101, China.
authors.forename: Chengzhang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Junhui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: He