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A Crystalline Material Made from Oxidation of Vanadium Nitride via Foam Route
Plasma Technology Research Center, National Fusion Research Institute, Daejeon, South Korea;
Department of Bio-Electronic Physics, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea.
- 1 Plasma Technology Research Center, National Fusion Research Institute, Daejeon, South Korea;
- 2 Department of Bio-Electronic Physics, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea.
Soft Nanoscience Letters·Volume 03 (2013)·Pages 83–86·Published 11 October 2013·DOI10.4236/snl.2013.34015
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Abstract
Facile method of synthesizing organic-inorganic solid foam in complex structure is presented. The synthesis method is based on the use of neutral surfactant (1-hexadecylamine, C 16 H 33 NH 2 ) as structure directing agent and inorganic salt (vanadium nitride, VN) as precursor. The foam containing C 16 H 33 NH 2 has been synthesized by evolution of oxygen gas produced spontaneously from hydrogen peroxide through a viscous VN gel. The foam from the precursor of 0.5 gVN nanopowder grows gradually, reaching about 0.3 liters 10 minutes after excess addition of H 2 O 2 and stirring. The ultralight, crystalline material made via foam processing was observed by XRD, SEM, TEM, and FTIR.
KeywordsVanadium NitrideOrganic-Inorganic CompositeFoam
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