A facile approach to fabrication of PbS hollow spheres with improved polystyrene templates

作者:Li, Guowei; Li, Changsheng*; Tang, Hua; Cao, Kesheng; Chen, Juan; Jin, Yue
来源:Materials Letters, 2010, 64(24): 2755-2758.
DOI:10.1016/j.matlet.2010.09.002

摘要

This paper provides a simple route to produce monodisperse PbS hollow spheres by using cationic polystyrene (PS) micro-particles as templates. The templates used in our experiment, were prepared via emulsifier-free polymerization by using the cationic monomer 2-(methacryloyloxy) ethyltrimethylammonium chloride as co-monomer. X-ray diffraction (XRD). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTRI) were used to characterize the structure of the obtained PbS/PS composites and hollow PbS spheres. It was found that the as-produced samples are well-defined core-shell structures with an average diameter of about 0.98 mu m. TEM showed that after the removal of the templates, the hollow structures were perfectly retained.