Synthesis of ZnS nanoparticles into the pore of mesoporous silica spheres
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Yihua Zhu; Cuiyan Li; Yaoxia Li; Xiaoling Yang; Chunzhong Li
- Source
- Materials Letters. 63:1068-1070
- Subject
- Materials science
Mechanical Engineering
Layer by layer
Nanoparticle
Mesoporous silica
Condensed Matter Physics
Styrene
Allylamine
Nanomaterials
chemistry.chemical_compound
Sulfonate
chemistry
Nanocrystal
Chemical engineering
Mechanics of Materials
Polymer chemistry
General Materials Science
- Language
- ISSN
- 0167-577X
The ZnS nanoparticles were exclusively synthesized in the pores of the mesoporous silica (MS) particles which had been coated with two bilayers of poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH)/poly(styrene sulfonate) (PSS) via the layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembly technique. Measurements and analysis of XRD and TEM showed that the ZnS nanocrystals were inserted into the pores of the MS spheres. This approach can be used to prepare composite materials involving functional inorganic nanoparticles which have potential application in biological immunoassay and photoelectronic fields.