simple preparation of novel metal-containing mesoporous starches
;Rafael Luque;Antonio A. Romero;James H. Clark;Antonio Pineda;Alina M. Balu;Peter S. Shuttleworth;Vitaliy Budarin;Manuel Ojeda
Nature Materials2013Vol. 6pp. 1891-1902
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luque2013materialssimple
Abstract
Metal-containing mesoporous starches have been synthesized using a simple and efficient microwave-assisted methodology followed by metal impregnation in the porous gel network. Final materials exhibited surface areas >60 m2 g−1, being essentially mesoporous with pore sizes in the 10–15 nm range with some developed inter-particular mesoporosity. These materials characterized by several techniques including XRD, SEM, TG/DTA and DRIFTs may find promising catalytic applications due to the presence of (hydr)oxides in their composition.