title: Top-down solid-phase fabrication of nanoporous cadmium oxide architectures.
abstract: In this article, we have demonstrated one-step solid-phase transformation from high-quality cadmium carbonate microcrystals into highly nanoporous cadmium oxide. The high crystal quality of cadmium carbonate is critical for the successful fabrication of porous nanoarchitectures with predetermined morphology and well-controlled internal structure. This novel strategy has a good potential to prepare nanoporous materials at a large scale by using perfect monolithic carbonate crystals, and it is also useful to synthesize different nanoporous materials on metal-oxide-coated substrates. Meanwhile, this simple thermal transformation of cadmium carbonate into porous structures has further been extended to convert calcium carbonate into such porous structures.
authors.affiliation: NUSNNI, GPBE, and Division of Bioengineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576.
authors.forename: Haidong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Deshen
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ming-Yong
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Han
mesh_terms: D002104:Cadmium / Q000737:chemistry*; D019187:Cadmium Compounds / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D002254:Carbonates / Q000737:chemistry*; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D010087:Oxides / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D010316:Particle Size; D016062:Porosity; D013499:Surface Properties; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D019187:Cadmium Compounds; D002254:Carbonates; D010087:Oxides; D002104:Cadmium; C029663:cadmium oxide; C038075:cadmium carbonate