Delamination of Surfactant-Intercalated Brucite-Like Hydroxy Salts of Cobalt and Copper and Solvothermal Decomposition of the Resultant Colloidal Dispersions

Rajamathi, Jacqueline T and Arulraj, Anthony and Ravishankar, N and Arulraj, James and Rajamathi, Michael (2008) Delamination of Surfactant-Intercalated Brucite-Like Hydroxy Salts of Cobalt and Copper and Solvothermal Decomposition of the Resultant Colloidal Dispersions. In: Langmuir, 24 (19). pp. 11164-11168.

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Abstract

Surfactant anion intercalated hydroxy salts of copper and cobalt of the formula M(OH)(2-x)(surf)(x)center dot mH(2)O [M = Cu, Co; surf = dodecyl sulfate. dodecyl benzene sulfonate. and x = 0.5 for Cu and 0.67 for Co] delaminate readily in 1-butanol to give translucent colloidal dispersions that are stable for months. The extent of delamination and the colloidal dispersion observed in these solids is higher than what had been observed for layered double hydroxides. The dispersions yield the corresponding nanoparticulate oxides on solvothermal decomposition. While the copper hydroxy salt forms similar to 300 nm dendrimer-like CuO nanostructures comprising nanorods of similar to 10 nm diameter, the cobalt analogue forms similar to 20 nm superparamagnetic particles of Co3O4.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Langmuir
Publisher:	American Chemical Society
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Chemical Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Materials Research Centre
Date Deposited:	11 Mar 2010 07:39
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:56
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/26096

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