Mechanochemical Nonhydrolytic Sol-Gel-Strategy for the Production of Mesoporous Multimetallic Oxides

Zihao Zhang, Shize Yang, Xiaobing Hu, Haidi Xu, Honggen Peng, Miaomiao Liu, Bishnu Prasad Thapaliya, Kecheng Jie, Jiahua Zhao, Jixing Liu, Hao Chen, Yan Leng, Xiuyang Lu, Jie Fu, Pengfei Zhang, Sheng Dai

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Abstract

Mesoporous metal oxides with wide pore size, high surface area, and uniform porous structures have demonstrated excellent advantages in various fields. However, the state-of-art synthesis approaches are dominated by wet chemistry, accompanied by use of excessive solvent, and the requirement of time-consuming drying process. Herein, we report a mechanochemical solid-state route to synthesize mesoporous Al2O3 (meso-Al2O3) via aluminum isopropoxide-copolymers assembly. The obtained meso-Al2O3 shows a record high surface area (∼644 m2 g-1) and narrow pore size distribution (centered at ∼5 nm). Moreover, a mechanochemical nonhydrolytic sol-gel strategy is introduced to fabricate mesoporous metal (Cu, Co, Mn, Fe, Mg, Ni)-aluminum binary oxide by using anhydrous metal chlorides and aluminum isopropoxide interplay. More importantly, four or five metals-aluminum oxide complexes with abundant mesopores and single cubic crystalline phase known as high-entropy ceramics are produced. To the best of our knowledge, mesoporous high-entropy metal oxides have not been prepared before, because the high crystallization temperature would make mesopores collapse.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5529-5536
Number of pages8
JournalChemistry of Materials
Volume31
Issue number15
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 13 2019

Funding

BT, KJ, HC, and SD were supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division. JL was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Vehicle Technologies Office. JF was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21436007, 21706228), the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. LR17B060002). ZZ thanks the China Scholarship Council for financial support as a joint PhD student. PFZ acknowledges Shanghai Pujiang Program (Grant No. 17PJ1403500), Thousand Talent Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21776174), and the Open Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering (Shanghai Jiao Tong University of China) (No. 1809) for the support.

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