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SUBMITTER: Meng Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5312898 | biostudies-other | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 20150403 2
Silica nanoparticles were directly coated with cobalt hydroxide by homogeneous precipitation of slowly decomposing urea in cobalt nitrate solution. The cobalt hydroxide was amorphous, and its morphology was nanoflower-like. The BET (Brunauer-Emmett-Teller) surface area of the core-shell composite was 221 m²/g. Moreover, the possible formation procedure is proposed: the electropositive cobalt ions were first adsorbed on the electronegative silica nanoparticles surface, which hydrolyzed to form co ...[more]